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Monday, June 21, 2010
Coco Mademoiselle
OK, so I don't forget this again, Coco Mademoiselle smells a lot like a Shirley Temple. As a number of people have pointed out, it is really a fruity floral, not an Oriental, as it has been wrongly promoted, and the predominant note, to me, seems to be grenadine. Not pomegranate, Rose's grenadine. Maybe that's the litchi the official notes refer to. I detect the same note in Gaultier's Ma Dame. Ma Dame disappointed the hell out of me. I spritzed it in Sephora also, and for about five minutes, it smelled like what I've been hunting for for ages, a richer, deeper version of Clinique's Happy. Then the top notes faded, and the plasticized Shirley Temple came on full blast.
This note, whatever it may be, seems prominent in a lot of the popular fragrances of the past several years, and I can't stand it. It's not a bad smell, it's just the last thing I would ever want to smell like. Artificial and sweet.
Coco Mademoiselle dries down into something less fruity, and rather more pleasant, but I smell plastic all the way to the bottom. Note to self: do not spray this on me again. It is not working.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Vierges et Toreros
V&T starts off with a mad flamenco stomp of serious white flowers, followed by a mad flamenco stomp of rawhide. We are not kidding around with the leather on this one. We are not talking about nice glove leather, or subtle suede, or gentleman's tack, or that soft musky smell that sometimes gets called 'leather' in perfume. We're talking that stiff, unfinished orangey stuff that smells to high heaven of LEATHER. The overall impact is sexy, up-in-your-face, and is basically the scent equivalent of the sound of mariachi brass.
Then the Play-Doh gets involved. Within ten minutes, surfacing slowly from the rough leather, this salty, doughy, incredibly familiar smell. Stomping and twirling like a matador in the suit of lights made entirely from Play-Doh. Ole.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Chanel No. 5
I idly sprayed a dab of it on my wrist, thinking, I think, that it would smell like her. It didn't, it smelled to me of generic grandmotherly perfume, but didn't spark any particular smell memory. Too powdery and archaic for me at the time--I was not even a newbie perfumista at the time--and I put it aside.
Now, I should explain, before I come to my most recent experiment with Chanel's great masterpiece, that my grandma was horribly allergic to most fragrant flowers. We never sent flowers for birthdays, and they were never in her home. I remember walking with her in Golden Gate Park, hearing her reminisce about the time my aunt and a friend of hers, with the best of intentions, filled her room with jasmine blooms in little vases. She woke up to breakfast in bed, but was unable to open her eyes, which had swelled up from all the jasmine.
A few weeks ago, I was walking through the Macy's in downtown San Francisco, and hovered briefly by the Chanel counter. On a whim, I picked up the Chanel No. 5 EDP and sprayed my inner arm heavily.
The first hit was of dusty, chypric notes, less powdery than I recalled, and then, five minutes later, as I walked out of the store, I was hit with a high, screeching note that emerged out of nowhere, and which I could only identify dazedly as smelling like peaches in syrup and mint. It howled. I had no idea what it was, since as best I could remember the official notes of No. 5, Screaming Minty Fruit Salad was not among them.
Today, walking by the baseball field on a sunny spring day, I got hit with the smell again, this time in context, and now I know--that's the jasmine, that high heady screech smell. Funny, and a little bit ironic, that the note I smell strongest in No. 5 is the one that, on the vine, would make my grandmother flee the garden.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Cuir De Russie
First things first--I first tried Cuir de Russie some months ago, in warmer weather, and did not take to it at all. The scent was ordinary, ambery baby powder, I got no leather, and I simply didn't get why everyone raved about it so much. Worse, I got a slight indolic dampness, which reminded me unpleasantly of babies--not that babies smell bad, but you wouldn't necessarily want to rub one all over yourself for a night on the town, no? I put the Cuir de Russie aside.
Anyway, a couple of nights ago, now that the weather has chilled substantially, I dabbed another dab on, and oh, dear, it it gorgeous. The damp baby is gone, and the leather is softly sophisticated, and the whole composition is filled with wondrous light, and, oh, cool, now there's another Chanel Exclusif I wouldn't mind having a bottle of, at another two hundred bucks I don't have. Oh well. I will try it again this evening. Perhaps the damp baby will come back.
I've dabbed. Damn. No damp baby. Now it has a sort of incense note as well. This is no good. Maybe it has a slight wheaty note I don't like? I will meditate on the wheaty note.Oh well.
Anyway, while I was thinking about Cuir de Russie, I popped over to the Chanel website, and discovered that not only is this stuff only available in 200 ml. containers, for $200 a pop, but that according to the website, "CUIR DE RUSSIE captures the essence of the wild and lavish world of 1920s Russia".
This brought me to something of a pause there. My own great-grandparents left Russia not too long before the 1920s, and 'wild and lavish' is not exactly the image that has been passed down from generation to generation. More like 'miserable and short on food'. I understand that there were in fact Bolshevik flappers--much disapproved of by their elders--but frankly, the '20s in Russia began with civil war, and ended with Stalin in charge, and I kind of figured that the lady to the right over there more summed up the spirit of the day than her contemporary flapper girl up top there.
Then I read some more reviews of the fragrance, and people raved about troikas, and furs, and leather boots, and some guy named Ivan bringing them more caviar, and it suddenly struck me that THIS is what they're talking about:
This, of course, is Liv Tyler, playing the beautiful and virtuous Tatiana Larina, in the 1999 remake of Pushkin's 1831 novel in verse, Eugene Onegin. The film is titled Onegin, Ralph Fiennes plays the title role, and, well, it's too British for my taste, although very beautiful.
This is what they're referencing with Cuir de Russie--Imperial Russia. Leather boots, troikas, lavish fabrics, wild hearts, French flirtations, princesses, grand balls, St. Petersberg, Anna Karenina, Onegin, vodka, caviar, snow on the birch trees...(pogroms, oppression of the peasants, ignorance, superstition...nevermind).
OK. Guys--think maybe 1820s, or 1850s. Not 1920s. Okay?
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Perfume Persona
I mean, I love Bois des Iles. And I love Feminite du Bois. And I've developed a bit of a yen for Tann Rokka Signature. (And Samsara.) But despite a fondness for some of the woods, most of the stuff I assumed I would like, I don't like so much. Incense, except for a tad in Chanel 22, has let me down. Spice, rich roses, amber and musk, lavish Orientals, all of the things I assumed I would naturally gravitate toward, I mostly haven't gravitated toward. I like a few things in each of these categories, but not all THAT much.
What do I like? Apparently I like GREEN. It started with Chanel 19. And then Bandit--OK, after Bandit I was done for. I like galbanum, and bitter lovely viridian green perfume. Everything in my wardrobe may be in warm colors, but it's the hot greens I want on my skin.
I wonder if this indicates some lack of self-knowledge, or just a lack of knowledge about perfumes when I got started.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Tabac Blond-History Comes Full Circle
The first impression is of a sort of standard Caron, sweet and vanilla-floral. With the sweetness, though, comes the tobacco--cigarette tobacco, so fresh and photorealistic that there's almost an impression of a cigarette forming out of the ether.
It's a fascinating thing to smell, but the problem is that history has moved on. Where fashionable young ladies in Paris after the war took up smoking, American women of my generation largely do not smoke, and smoking has a declasse reputation that has overridden it's previous glamorous one. Cigarettes are the last thing I want to smell like.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Tann Rokka Signature
Signature is based on 'ancient Japanese bathing rituals', according to its literature. I have no insight on ancient Japanese bathing rituals, although it summons up an image of very elderly Japanese ladies, blissfully up to their necks in hot tubs. And the juice really does smell rather like that. If I had to identify this smell it would be cedar planks that have been washed down repeatedly in soapy scalding hot water. It's the smell of a hot-tub with nice incense burning in the changing room.
People refer to this having 'aquatic notes', but I don't smell the water, just the effect of the water on the wood. This is a beautiful cedar, and I love my cedar. It's simple, domestic, and wears soft but persistent on the skin.
The opening is a bit wacky. Lots of people on Basenotes ID it as Lysol. It's a bit cleanserish, but I think it's more like Simple Green or something--and at any rate it goes quickly, at least on my opening-note-eating skin.
This stuff is really nice--a lovely scent without being overly perfumey. It seems homey, suited to all seasons, and pleasant and easy to wear.


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quote:Originally posted by wfmitchellI would not consider Texas or Louisiana in the top 10 of states in which to get BBQ. They are: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kansas, Florida, Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, Arkansas and Missouri. I have never had Louisisan BBQ and have never really even see it when I traveled there frequently during my career.If you grew up in Texas then you can probably tolerate smoked beef. I'm only good for eating it about twice a year. I did buy my pipe steel smoker from David Klose in Houston however. He makes an excellent product.
quote:Everyone has a right to their opinion and I respect yours and agree that Georgia and Alabama have very unique BBQ that is delicious. Once you experience BBQ in Louisiana, you will see that there is more to BBQ than pork. In my opinion, Louisiana and Texas are in the Top 10 states that excel in mouth-watering and distinctive BBQ.
quote:Originally posted by wfmitchellIt sounds like you've not been out of Texas much. Do you realize you live next to a great BBQ state? Go visit Arkansas.I do like Texas chili and Mexican food.
quote:Originally posted by yaya adleywfmitchell, for everyone's peace of mind, maybe you should give Texas BBQ one more try....we can't all be wrong.
quote:Originally posted by tennthomasDry ribs: The Rendevous in Memphis
quote:Originally posted by porkbeaksquote:Originally posted by tennthomasDry ribs: The Rendevous in MemphisThey're dry alright....dry as a bone. Cooked over charcoal at too high a heat, I'm not sure they even qualify as BBQ. They may have been great at one time, but these days just another tourist attraction.[url='http://tennesseeguy.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/memphiss-rendezvous-a-review/']This[/url] guy tells it like it is. pb

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On Tuesday, The Northwest Fire District announced its plans to disband the Ironwood Hotshot Crew at the end of this year's wild land season.
During a press conference, Capt. Adam Goldberg said the district is one of four hotshot crews that are not federally funded, and of those four, the Ironwood Hotshots is the only crew supported by a local agency. A county or state supports the other three crews.
The crew, comprised of 20 firefighters, "does not match the long term strategic planning and financial goal of the Northwest Fire District," Goldberg said.
Of the 20 firefighters, seven members of the full-time crew will be moved into other positions, while the 13 seasonal members of the crew will be let go after the wildfire season, which ends some time in October.
With this disbandment, Goldberg said the district plans to focus on its local community and improve its core services in an effort to reduce costs and lower the current tax rate.
Despite thoughts that the disbandment is taking place due to insurance concerns in the wake of the 19 Granite Mountain Hot Shots who died during the Yarnell Fire, Goldberg sad this is not the case.
"We learned there would be no additional insurance costs projected for this year," Goldberg said.
In opposition of the decision, hotshot crew member John Hoelerich has started a petition at www.change.org.


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Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicBotch We Are the RomansBotch An Anthology of Dead EndsConverge Jane DoeConverge All We Love We Leave BehindGenghis Tron Board Up the HouseHORSE the band Desperate LivingPoison the Well The Tropic RotPrimus Frizzle FryRx Bandits ...And the Battle BegunStreetlight Manifesto The Hands That ThieveI'm sure I will 5 it once my pre-order comes but how do these other people already have a copy? promos?The Arrogant Sons of Bitches Three Cheers For DisappointmentThe Dillinger Escape Plan Calculating Infinity4.5 superbBetween the Buried and Me The Great MisdirectI view this as on the same level or even ABOVE colors. The songwriting is spot on, and there are so many memorable moments on the album. Mirrors is an absolutely amazing way to start an album, and fossil genera is just fuck yeah.Between the Buried and Me ColorsOver an hour of pure passion. I swear, It will never get old. ever. Every second is packed with emotion. 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Tommy is a musician, ladies and gentlemen.System of a Down ToxicityThe Chariot One WingThe Dillinger Escape Plan One of Us Is the KillerThe Dillinger Escape Plan Option ParalysisThe Dillinger Escape Plan DissociationTrap Them Darker HandcraftWar from a Harlots Mouth MMX4.0 excellentAmia Venera Landscape The Long ProcessionAnimals As Leaders The Joy of MotionBetween the Buried and Me The Parallax: Hypersleep DialoguesBlacklisted Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than GodBomb the Music Industry! ScramblesBomb the Music Industry! Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By Nothing!!!!!!!Botch American NervosoCall of the Void Agelessthis album goes way harder than their first LP. 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Critical MeatYou Slut! Medium Bastard3.0 goodArsonists Get All the Girls Listen to the ColorCloudkicker The DiscoveryCoheed and Cambria The Second Stage Turbine BladeConverge Live at the BBCGenghis Tron Dead Mountain MouthGreen Day KerplunkGreen Day NimrodHORSE the band PizzaJob for a Cowboy RuinationJob for a Cowboy DemonocracyKEN mode SuccessA bit disappointing, but overall no offensively bad songs. 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We will be working with Gabe again this year to bring snowmobile specific AIARE Level 1 classes to Central Oregon. We have been able to keep the prices low (way lower than you would find anywhere else for this caliber of a class). This is the full 3 day AIARE class (1 day in class, 2 days on snow) but with a emphasis on decision making and such from a snowmobilers perspective. You can get more info on the AIARE curriculum at: http://avtraining.org/Avalanche-Trai...E-Level-1.html
If you travel off trail, this is the class you need (at a minimum).
The class tuition will be $175 (you supply your own sled, etc.). All riding levels (assuming basic skills) are welcome and encouraged. Tentative class dates are:
Dec 9th - Dec 11th (snow permitting)
Feb 17th - 20th
For those that have already taken a Level 1 class, we will be adding an all-new 4 day snowmobile specific AIARE Level 2 this year. It is tentatively set up for Jan 13th - 16th, and will be $275.
Please respond to this message, or contact me, with interest and I will get you more info. These are great classes, that are well worth the time and effort. Feedback from past attendees has been VERY positive.


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The three CETFs in Washington state are based in Seattle, Everett, and Tacoma.
- The Seattle CETF is a partnership between the FBI; the King County Sheriff's Office; the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI) directorate; and the Seattle, Kent, SeaTac, Port of Seattle, and Bellevue Police Departments.
- The North Sound CETF is a partnership between the FBI, the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office, and the Everett and Mt. Vernon Police Departments.
- The South Sound CETF is a partnership between the FBI, the Tacoma and Lakewood Police Departments, the Internal Revenue Service, and ICE-HSI.
The FBI combats the range of crimes against children. In addition to working to end the exploitation of children, the FBI often investigates child abductions, international parental kidnappings, and other violations of federal statutes related to minors.


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Northern Arizona Downs Southern Utah 70-36 - Match Report
Northern Arizona cruised to victory on Monday, running Southern Utah out of the gym and running up a 70-36 score at Centrum Arena.
Northern Arizona was the ATS victor, as they covered the 9.5-point spread as a favorite.
Northern Arizona got 15 points from Max Jacobsen and another 13 points from Kris Yanku. Gaellan Bewernick contributed 3 assists, while Kris Yanku cleaned the glass with 8 rebounds.
Southern Utah got 8 points from Jaren Jeffery in a losing cause and another 7 points from Jayson Cheesman. Casey Oliverson contributed 2 assists for them, while Casey Oliverson had 5 rebounds.
First-half bettors who backed Northern Arizona were victorious, as the score was 35-11 at the break.
The rebound battle favored Northern Arizona as they grabbed 34 boards, while Southern Utah only had 28.


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This is a collaborative effort by Vi, SpyreX and Zoraster
There have been lots of games designed that have given players control over the role they receive. But there have been, to our knowledge, no games that have given players the decision over the side they want to be on.
This game does just that. After sign-ups are full, everyone will have the opportunity to choose whether they want to take a Pledge of Allegiance for the Town, Mafia, or Other side. And they'll be placed on that side!
After this, the three mods involved will design a set-up completely determined by your selections. Every attempt will be made to make things balanced and interesting. The process of collecting people's choices and making a setup will take a bit, so do not expect the game to start immediately when the roster is filled. Expect about a week turn around time from when choices are made. Not even the mechanics will be decided on until the game goes up as to give us the best ability to design a setup that may not be traditionally "balanced" in terms of numbers.
Disclaimer: In order to achieve balance, there may be bastard modding elements used.
Requirements to join the roster
1. You must have completed at least two games.
2. You must not have ongoing problems with the mods or players involved that would derail the game from what it is designed to be: fun.
3. Hydras and Alt Accounts that don't otherwise meet the first criteria may not join.
4. If you have not completed enough games, you may sign up to replace in, but those with two completed games will receive priority.
- farside22
- DrippingGoofball
- UncertainKitten
- Zorblag
- Shotty to the Body
- xvart
- Jack
- VP Baltar
- Ellibereth
- Nicodemus
- charter
- d3x
- popsofctown
- Cobalt
- LLamaFluff
- imaginality
- fishythefish
- ojanen
- phate
- Gammagooey
- Jazzmyn
- RedCoyote
- Debonair Danny DiPietro
- Parama
Replacement List
- Sotty7
- Albert B. Rampage
- StrangerCoug
- Plum
- Twomz
- Chronopie
- Lowell
For those interested, I'll (Zoraster) be the lead mod and will handle the day-to-day operations of the game.


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A lot of terrific things have happened at Friendly Planet Travel within the past year. I shared "Seven Exotic Locations for the Price of a Vegas Weekend" at The Philadelphia Inquirer Travel Show in January; we've expanded our tour offerings, which now include destinations like Namibia and Madagascar; and we added a build-your-own-cruise booking engine to our website.
Through it all, we've been showcasing the hilarity of the travel industry with Friday's Friendly Funny every week. So we're looking back on the year's best cartoons to see why some aspects of travel simply make us laugh out loud.


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NEW DELHI, India — After the shooting of 14-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufza last week, allegations emerged that the attack was ordered by a feared "Radio Mullah" — South Asia's equivalent of a right wing shock-jock — named Maulana Fazlullah.
Fazlullah is notorious for his reactionary vitriol. In 2009, he ordered all girls' schools in the Swat Valley closed.
For Englishman John Mohammed Butt, Fazlullah's alleged order was a bitter call to action. Butt, an Islamic scholar, is a mullah in the true sense of the word. But he uses the airwaves to fight radicals.
Call Butt, 62, "the other Radio Mullah." It's a vocation he's pursued for decades.
Butt is the only "white mullah" ever to graduate from Darul Uloom Deoband, the seat of South Asian Islam and the birthplace of the Deobandi school of thought, sometimes denigrated as "the religion of the Taliban."
A slim, gregarious man with ghost-pale skin and a talib's fist-length beard, Butt converted to Islam on the hippie trail in 1970. Since then, he has spent most of his life living among tribal Pashtuns in the borderless region of Afghanistan and Pakistan that he calls "Pashtunistan."
In 1993, he helped create a soap opera called "New Home, New Life" for the BBC's Pashto service, which used stories about rural life to communicate subtle messages about women's independence, as well as information on health and hygiene. Even after leaving the BBC in 1998, the white Deobandi's influence has spread.
Butt started PACT Radio in 2005, broadcasting in Pashto throughout the cross-border tribal regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan. With a radio station based in Swat from 2008 to 2009, he invited Yousifzai to discuss girls' education on his radio program in the early days of her struggle – though PACT has since moved its headquarters to Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
"We worked in Swat at the same time as Malala was writing her diary," said Butt. "We were countering the militants with an alternative voice of mainstream, moderate Islam."
"We were on the radio, really in the thick of things. Every day we were going, 'When's the bomb going to go off?' It was really hairy."
Today, Butt spends most of his time in New Delhi with his wife and two small daughters. He says he sees himself as a "normal bloke."
"I seem quite ordinary to myself," he said. "The things I impart to my children – be the best behaved, the most polite and the most hardworking. Those are pretty ordinary values, aren't they?"
That doesn't mean his life has been easy.
Today, Butt spends most of his time in New Delhi with his wife and two small daughters. He says he sees himself as a "normal bloke," but that doesn't mean his life has been easy.
Militants area apt to take his white skin and English heritage as evidence he's a foreign spy. A media center in a madrasa where Butt worked in 2010 was burned to the ground. And Butt himself was showered with glass when a bomb exploded next to his house in Kabul in 2009.
But where tales of "American Taliban" raise fears of the radicalization of converts, Butt's long career tells a story of how greater understanding and acceptance can achieve a moderating influence on the Pashtuns.
The reach of radio
Butt's "New Home, New Life" show competed with the Taliban's nightly screeds, but with as many as 35 million avid fans, it was too popular to be shut down.
"I believe that one of the reasons the Taliban didn't ban radio was because of 'New Home, New Life,'" Shirazuddin Siddiqi, a former drama teacher at Kabul University who worked on the program, told the Guardian in 2001. "All the soldiers were addicted to it."
Widely hailed for its moderating influence on the Taliban prior to 2001, the program might have had a greater impact if Butt had been granted free rein.
Following his general strategy of using his knowledge of Islamic law and Pashtun customs to combat radical influence, Butt's team considered a storyline that would address whether providing refuge to foreign militants was truly mandated by tribal traditions.
In the end, they opted not to take on the radicals so directly, and Butt still wonders whether the Taliban would have protected Osama bin Laden if they'd had a sound cultural and theological argument for turning him over.
"We're trying to look at these things from the point of view of their own traditions," Butt said.
"Traditionally, the Pashtuns do give refuge to outlaws.... But you can't internationalize that. [And] the outlaw has to live a law-abiding life. These guys are using your hospitality as a base to cause trouble left, right and center."
Though Butt left the BBC in 1998 , "New Home, New Life" is still running. The BBC launched a spinoff in 2009 called "Old City, New Dreams" that targeted new migrants to Afghanistan's urban centers.
A local FM station called "Nari Radio" has taken up thorny issues like hospitality for foreign militants, with a call-in debate show that gives Afghans a chance to spar with American commanders in the region.
And Butt himself — who moved out of Swat valley in 2010 when his house was washed away by floods — has pushed forward with a radio station, and several syndicated programs, of his own.
Now based in Jalalabad, his radio station, PACT — originally an acronym for "Pak/Afghan Cross-border Radio Training and Production — goes beyond providing a broadcasting alternative to the message of the militants like similar BBC or Radio Free Asia projects.
PACT Radio trains and employs young men and — importantly — women to work as independent journalists in the troubled region.
Currently, PACT has a network of more than 150 reporters on both sides of the border, where they not only gather and report the news for its syndicated programs, but also provide a forum for ordinary people to share their stories, examine the region's problems and suggest solutions.
Beyond the airwaves
The Jalaabad-based Islamic Vocational Academy (IVA) that Butt started in 2009 now provides job training and a possible bridge to higher education for madrasa graduates who would otherwise face a future of unemployment and isolation. With a current batch of around 200 students, the academy provides instruction in journalism and mass communications, as well as Islamic herbal medicine.
Many graduates will get their first job experience at the school's "Morning Star Radio" station in Jalalabad — whether in the station's marketing department or on the air. And Butt is working with universities such as New Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia, which presently accepts students from Indian madrasas, to adopt his curriculum.
"Everybody is working toward the same thing," said Butt. "The Pashto-speaking masses want exactly the same thing as the international community wants — they want education, they want health, they want a better life."
IVA's course of study is hardly the mass-com syllabus offered at American, or even Indian, colleges. To reach students accustomed to rote learning and an absolute adherence to authoritative religious texts, the courses use familiar material, such as the methodology by which ancient imams authenticated the Prophet Muhammad's sayings in the Hadith, to help them understand and assimilate foreign concepts such as sifting facts from rumor and juggling on-the-record and anonymous sources.
There is more than a little of the madrasa in the academy's soul.
"It's preparing a person for working in the community — it's a lot of democracy studies, peace studies, critical thinking," said Butt. "It's all the facilities in the modern world that allow Islamic scholars to make a positive contribution to the community.
Studies in what Butt calls "Islamic outreach" take up as much as half the students' time, as the faculty attempts to reconcile the life of the Islamic scholar with the challenges of militancy and modernization. And that as often means bending and shaping modern concepts and institutions as it does assimilation — with the academy advocating Islam's charity-based financial system as an alternative to debt- and interest-based capitalism and "taking responsibility" versus the West's unfettered freedom of speech when it comes to the media.
"I'm trying to get them to think of Islam in the modern context, and as a relevant alternative in the modern age," said Butt. "That means spiritually in particular, perhaps, but also as far as family values are concerned, as far as the economy is concerned, and as far as the media is concerned."


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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — Don't finish, allow sloppy goal, lose game. Rinse. Repeat.
As the Colorado Rapids suffered their fifth loss in six games on Saturday night following a 2-1 home setback to FC Dallas, a troubling trend continued to unfold. Despite having only three points to show for their past six games, the Rapids have controlled large stretches in each of their losses, but late defensive meltdowns and a failure to capitalize on scoring chances have turned into a running theme for them over the past month.
"We just lacked concentration, and maybe a little lack of heart and a little lack of knowing where our guys are at and thinking someone else is going to pick them up," goalkeeper Matt Pickens said. "I don't know what it is, but I've got to go back and look, but we just gave them the game again and it's unacceptable."
The Rapids let numerous chances go to waste in Saturday's loss. Omar Cummings, who scored Colorado's lone goal on the night, rocketed an open effort in front of goal off the post in the 72nd minute and also saw his open first-half header miss the target. An unmarked Jaime Castrillón missed a first half volley high despite being right in front of goal, and several second half set pieces went to waste, leading to another tough defeat.
"Collectively we just keep finding ways to shoot ourselves in the foot," striker Conor Casey said. "We had a lot of chances in the first half again and don't finish, and when you don't finish, then it makes it a lot harder on us."
But just as the offense squandered several key opportunities, it was the defense that ultimately let the Rapids down. Substitute Carlos Rodríguez was left unmarked by the Rapids' defense in his 60th minute equalizing goal for Dallas, and Colorado's back line was caught pushing forward when Dallas grabbed Fabián Castillo's 81st-minute game-winning score.
"The first one it was one of those where the corner kick was just kind of a half clearance," defender Drew Moor told MLSsoccer.com. "We stepped up, but some guys didn't follow their man and left the guy wide open, and [Rodríguez] is one of the smallest guys on the field and he heads it in. You've got to stay marked and we weren't marked up. It's just accountability, that's winning your one-v-one matchups."
All in all, it adds up to a troublesome run of form for Oscar Pareja's team, who are searching for answers in the lead-up to two crucial road tests this week.
"Now we need to get results and get things done," Pareja said. "In a game like [Saturday], it's probably a reflection of what has been happening in many of the games. We do a lot of good things, but then we don't finalize the job and then that happens. It is frustrating, but we cannot lose our heads."
Chris Bianchi covers the Colorado Rapids for MLSsoccer.com.


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By Richard Kitterman
Special to the Daily Herald
BBB received hundreds of complaints about financial aid companies last year
According to The College Board, a nonprofit organization that works to assist students with financial aid and scholarships, $94 billion was made available to help college students cover education costs during the 2009-10 school year.
BBB received nearly 400 complaints nationwide during 2010 from parents and students who were dissatisfied with services provided by scholarship and financial aid companies.
To assist the millions of students and parents who depend on annual grants and scholarships, many companies now sell information about financial aid availability and offer application services.
Some complaints explain that students received a direct mail piece from a financial aid company announcing the student was eligible for a scholarship and needed to set up an interview to receive it.
Complaints further allege that students felt they were misled and were scheduled for a financial aid group seminar instead of an interview. Students and parents report that after attending the seminar and paying more than $1,000 in fees to the company, the services received were nothing more than assistance with basic paperwork.
BBB has also received numerous complaints about a free trial offer for resources that are advertised to help students simplify the process of scholarship applications. However, many students claim they were charged as much as $69 for the resources despite the free trial offer.
BBB reminds students and parents that free information on financial aid is available at www.fafsa.gov.
Additionally, BBB advises that consumers be cautious, look for the following red flags and to check with BBB before sending money to scholarship and financial aid companies:
"The scholarship is guaranteed or your money back." In reality, no one can guarantee they will get you a grant or scholarship because the decision is out of the company's hands. Refund guarantees also often contain complicated terms and conditions that make it difficult for consumers to get their money back.
"You cannot get this information anywhere else." Scholarship information is widely available in books, from libraries and financial aid offices and on the Internet, if you are willing to search for it.
"We will do all the work." Only parents and students can determine and provide the financial information needed to complete the forms.
"You have been selected by a national foundation to receive a scholarship." If you have not entered a competition sponsored by the foundation, this claim is highly unlikely.
"Your credit card or bank account number is required to hold this scholarship." Legitimate scholarship offers never require this information or payment of any kind.
"Start With Trust." Go to www.bbb.org to check on a company's reputation and record for customer satisfaction. Look for the BBB Seal and click to confirm that it is valid.
For consumer information, business reviews, reports on charities, to schedule a guest speaker or to file a complaint, go to www.centraltx.bbb.org or call (254) 699-0694.
Richard Kitterman is executive director of the BBB for Central and South Central Texas.


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They still flock by the thousands to Mallory Square to catch the sunset, but in Key West there is no more Full Moon. For sixteen years a legendary late-night haven for the Conch town's rogues and writers, the Full Moon Saloon closed for good on July 19.
"We had as good a run as a couple of party people could possibly have had," says Vic Latham, who owned the bar along with Sidney Snelgrove (the two men later took on a third partner, John Hellen). Latham, who worked behind the bar at the Full Moon four nights per week, chain-smoking Salems, drinking Scotch and water out of a collins glass, and holding forth about Key West's Seventies' heyday and what he liked to call the Eternal Verities, was the subject of a New Times cover story in July 1992.
"We were broke," explains Snelgrove. "It's been coming awhile; we'd been hanging by a thread. The competition -- there are new bars opening every day. And we lost some key personnel. It was time for a change. It just reached a point when we didn't have any more money to put into the thing." The final blow was a visit from the IRS, Snelgrove says, which was owed about $25,000 in payroll taxes.
In 1977, with a good idea and about $2000, Latham and Snelgrove, who also owns part of the rollicking Duval Street bar Sloppy Joe's, came up with the Moon. At that time, people who worked in the bar business in Key West had nowhere to go after they got off work, no after-hours hangout. The Full Moon offered good food, good music on a good stereo system, and most of all, a good time. "It was basically a bar for working people," says Snelgrove. "A good drink for a reasonable price and open till 4:00 a.m."
Six years later, when the bar lost its lease and moved to the corner of Simonton and Catherine streets from its original location on United Street, Latham and Snelgrove's pub had accumulated a loyal and slightly off-kilter following that included such writers as Philip Caputo, Thomas McGuane, Jim Harrison, Thomas Sanchez, Hunter S. Thompson, and Shel Silverstein. Key West's mellowest magnate, singer Jimmy Buffett, also was a habitue. Along with the sunken, horseshoe-shaped bar with its leather armrest and cushioned captain's chairs, the Full Moon's most striking interior decoration was a twelve-foot, three-inch, 569-pound blue marlin caught by Caputo off the coast of Cuba in 1978. Caputo's marlin, which broke a record held by Ernest Hemingway, was put in storage when the bar closed.
Latham says that both the Moon's success and its failure are signs of the times in Key West, a town whose popularity as a laidback enclave has ultimately led, in some ways, to its ruination: "It was a nucleus of 50 to 100 of us that created a very colorful, fun place that you could go and still be in America. We did such a good job of not only creating it, but publicizing it, that we can no longer afford to live here.
"In essence, the area has become so tourist- and/or money-oriented that the 'color' of Key West, the people who made it what it was, can no longer afford to live here," Latham continues. "And we watched them almost daily -- the people that have been the heart of Key West, I like to think, and definitely the heart of the Full Moon -- move out of town."
As Snelgrove puts it, "Our old gang -- the gang we started out with -- most of them have grown up and had kids, gone to jail, or died." Snelgrove himself moved to Costa Rica for a time, to a small town on the Pacific that he says reminded him a lot of Key West in the Sixties and early Seventies.
As the "color" drained out, the writers abandoned Key West, too. "The creative people, the people that we all loved and that were so much a part of the community, have no impetus to come down here any more," Latham observes, "because their lifeblood -- the storytellers -- are all gone."
With his profitable interest in Sloppy Joe's, Sidney Snelgrove's fortunes have not fallen along with the Moon's. But despite his early successes in Key West, the 58-year-old Latham hasn't been so lucky in recent years. In the early Seventies, he tended bar at the tiny but sublime Chart Room bar in the Pier House resort and he subsequently opened the bar at Louie's Backyard. But in the late Eighties, a failed bar-and-restaurant venture at the Key West Resort golf course on Stock Island put him in debt. After an operation for cancer and a brief flirtation with the real estate business, he went back to tending bar for a living, first at a posh resort off Little Torch Key called Little Palm Island, and finally, in early 1992, at the Full Moon.
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The closing of the Moon was followed this past week by a more personal loss for Latham; his ex-wife, Susie Gardner, whom he describes as "a sensational graphic artist" and who created the artwork for all the Full Moon's original advertising promotions and T-shirts, died suddenly of a brain aneurysm.
Latham had remarried several years ago; he and his wife Diana have two young kids. Diana recently went back to her hometown of Hot Springs, Arkansas, to start a monthly arts-and-entertainment tabloid, but he says he isn't sure whether he wants to move there.
He is, however, working on a book. "Little sketches, disjointed stories from a bartender's point of view, about the characters that have come through this island and made it what it was. Like a self-styled karate expert, Killer Mike, putting on a demonstration in the Chart Room at the Pier House. Broke five bones in his hand. He also broke into the winter home of Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey and tried to cut the tusk off an elephant with a Skil saw. The elephant stomped the shit out of him. Nutsos like that don't come along every day."
After a quarter of a century, the prospect of moving away from Key West is difficult to contemplate, at least right now. "I don't want to leave here under this pale of gloom," Latham muses. "I might try to open another place, pitch it more toward tourists. If I put it back together, it'll be so much better and so much stronger. You know, these past two years back at the bar, I've been sorta sober and paying attention.


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I don't have an opinion one way or the other on who the biggest success story is. Equal arguments could be made for Kelly Clarkson as well as Carrie Underwood.
Bucky Covington, Kellie Pickler and Josh Gracin have had success with country after leaving Idol, so there is a market for it.
There are several Shania tunes that have a more cross-over sound to them, so there are choices available to the contestants who don't feel comfortable with the country sound.


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jersey impaired
I thought some might get a chuckle out of this. I seem to have a problem with jerseys. They don't often make it onto hangers right out of the dryer, so it's not uncommon to iron those buggers.
Anyone else iron out the wrinkles, or am I just sick?
LOL you're joking right. Hang dry.
I don't put mine in the dryer - I don't think the Lycra and heat mix too well over the long term. I hang dry Lycra shorts and jerseys.
I use the dryer on permapress cycle with low or no heat. Seems to work fine.
Wash em on low heat and tumble dry- Brings the wicking back up so the are nice and soft--- Till the first hill- then why did I bother drying the damn thing.
I hang mine up also..
JUst curious, What's wrong with a wrinkled jersey. Ride fast and it looks like the wind is blowing it, slow and people will just think you have had a bad night previously.
I wish that my physique allowed the jersey to show wrinkles.
If round is a shape, I'm in shape.
I had no idea people were so fastidious. I wash mine with the levis, dishtowels, socks, etc. and then throw them in the dryer along with the rest on medium heat. I do put them on a hanger when I eventually empty the dryer. DG and I need wives, like you guys......someone who will gently handwash with love all our sweaty shorts, jerseys, etc. You pampered married men!
Marriage Fantasy: I come dragging into the driveway in my still neatly pressed jersey. She stands there with an ice cold Endurox and says, "Darling, you look fast even when you're standing still. The bed is turned down."
What a life you guys must have.
And the bed is turned down because after that ride I am ready to go to sleep, period!
you're absolutely right on this one...
My 2nd one meets all my fantasies and it IS quite a life
I'm not allowed to touch the washer or dryer - our biggest fights have been about my attempts to retain some sense of independence by washing my own clothes.
Our compromise is that I give her all health benefits & make her the recipient of all life insurance; she helps me maintain my illusion of control.
But you have to remember that this is the woman who laughed when I told her: "It is surprising how much service can be gotten from well-maintained medium quality parts," as she turned down the bed.:D :D :D :D :D :D :D
One of my ex-girlfriends was a beautiful girl from Slovakia. It is the culture in eastern Europe to iron everything - underwear, sheets, socks too, probably.
But I never put jerseys in the dryer. Too suspicious that they will shrink. I once had a long-sleeve jersey made in some high-tech wonderfabric that shrunk about five sizes after a bout with the dryer. Now I just hang up all my lycra stuff. It dries in one day, anyway, even indoors.
But I think a wrinkled jersey works better when you're riding. Those of you who are experienced racers know that the first thang you do when you pick up your race numbers is to wrinkle them. Yeah, you crinkle them up in a wad and then unfold them. It drives the registration people nuts when you do this to their nice numbers, but the result is that they don't flap around in the wind after you've pinned them on. So I figure a wrinkled jersey will do the same. And now you know another racing secret.
Gees, my wife does the laundry!
As the parents of two sons with profound disabilities, in a situation where in the past at times I worked 3 jobs and my wife 2, and we still couldn't pay the medical bills, and where we provided near-hospital care in the home for years on end, we reached certain arrangements so that we could make it through each day. One of these was that we each did our own laundry, period.
Why in the world do I feel like I have to explain myself to someone who apparently has no clue.
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DnvrFox...you got no splainin to do to anybody.
I hand wash/hang dry shorts and jerseys. Wifey does all other laundry.
Maybe you single guys are luckier than you think. Read on...
Women's Study by UCLA
A study conducted by UCLA's Department of Psychiatry has revealed that the kind of face a woman finds attractive on a man can differ depending on where she is in her menstrual cycle.
For example:
If she is ovulating, she is attracted to men with rugged and masculine features, and if she is menstruating or menopausal, she tends to be more attracted to a man with scissors lodged in his temple and duct tape over his mouth while he is on fire.
No further studies are expected
You aren't just parents, but saints in my book!!!!!
How you would have enough time to ride, let alone post, is beyond me. Hope you have family, friends or some other support group to give you two an occasional break. You probably need it and certainly deserve it.
I miss having laundry arguements (I was the picky one), but I do wash my biking stuff and tumble dry on delicate and hang. Afraid if I tried to iron it I would just melt it to the iron!
It is really tough to get good crease in the lycra shorts!!!
As most of you know, son #1 is now a nationally known attorney in the civil rights area, even though paralyzed from the shoulders down and son #2 lives in a "Host Home" with a family where he is quite happy. We provided intensive care for son #2 for 31 years (including running a specialized "day" program" for him and 16 others) - until I was 57 and the wife 59yo, and for son #1 after his paralyzing injury on his 21st birthday until such time as he could finish college here in Denver and then go to law school at Stanford. However, we still provided support while he was there in that I would assist in his moves to his summer clerkships in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, including even building a temporary roll-in shower in an apartment in Los Angeles, and things like assisting in DC when his "aide" went high on cocaine and had to be fired. He is married now and completely, totally self-sufficient.
However, my wife now has some serious problems regarding her knees. We continue with our clothes washing arrangements of old, and I actually prefer it that way.
Sorry to go ballistic over this issue. I was out of line, but it just happened to hit at the wrong time. I should have completely ignored the remark. If I could, I would delete everything, but since I have been quoted a couple of times, that is not possible.
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Broadway vets Jay Armstrong Johnson (Hands on a Hardbody), Tony Yazbeck (Chicago) and Clyde Alves (Nice Work If You Can Get It) will play the trio of sailors Chip, Ozzie and Gabey in Barrington Stage Company's season opener, On the Town. Directed by Tony winner John Rando (A Christmas Story) and choreographed by Emmy-winning Smash choreographer Joshua Bergasse, the production will run on the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage June 12 through July 13, with an official opening on June 16.
Set in 1944, On the Town is the story of three sailors on a 24-hour leave in New York City. Squeezed for time, they somehow manage to find love and incredible adventures in the Big Apple. Inspired by Jerome Robbins' ballet "Fancy Free," On the Town includes such memorable Leonard Bernstein and Comden & Green musical numbers as "New York, New York," "Lonely Town" and "I Can Cook Too" as well as the famed Coney Island Ballet.
Joining Johnson, Yazbeck and Alves will be Elizabeth Stanley (Company, Cry-Baby) as Claire de Loone, Deanna Doyle (New York City Ballet) as Ivy Smith, Alysha Umphress (American Idiot, Bring It On) as Hildy, Tony nominee Nancy Opel (Memphis) as Madame Dilly and Tony nominee Michael Rupert (Legally Blonde) as Judge Pitkin.
The ensemble will feature Chip Abbott, Jane Bernhard, Chloe Campbell, Jenifer Dillow, Elizabeth Flanagan, Hannah Florence, Allison Guinn, Karen Hyland, Christopher Job, Michael Kushner, Jason Luks, Megan Mekjian, Harris Milgrim, Kyle Scanlon, Michael Scirrotto, Kelly Sheehan and Chloe Tiso.
The production will feature set design by Beowulf Boritt, costume design by Jennifer Caprio, lighting design by Jason Lyons and sound design by Ed Chapman. Darren R. Cohen musically directs.


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Vincent's inaugural callup a homecoming
Vincent's inaugural callup a homecoming
Vincent was born in nearby Poway, Calif., and graduated from Ramona High School.
With starting pitcher Tim Stauffer (elbow) and infielder/outfielder James Darnell (shoulder) going on the 15-day disabled list Friday, the Padres summoned Vincent for his inaugural callup from Triple-A Tucson.
Vincent received news of his promotion around 11 p.m. Thursday. At the time, he was on his way home to his apartment after a Triple-A game in Tucson.
"Last night, when it happened, I couldn't talk or think," he said.
Vincent revealed his promotion on Twitter, tweeting at 12:22 a.m. Friday: "Heading to petco tomorrow. #sothankful #excited."
"It's pretty crazy," he said. "Now playing for a hometown team, for a professional team, is unreal."
Vincent began the season rehabbing from an ankle injury suffered during Spring Training. He said his left ankle partially dislocated when he stepped on a baseball in the bullpen during a spring game. He had been talking to a teammate and doing stretches when he suffered the injury.
He left extended spring camp and pitched his first game this season with Tuscon on May 10. He made three appearances there, allowing four runs, striking out two and walking one in 2 1/3 innings.
Vincent saw the number of injuries the Padres have suffered this season and wondered when his chance would arrive.
"I was like, 'This is a bad year to get hurt for me,'" he said. "But I've pitched in three games and now I'm up here, so it's pretty surreal to me."
Vincent went 8-2 with a 2.27 ERA in 66 relief outings last season for Double-A San Antonio. The Padres put him on their 40-man roster this past offseason. He impressed the Padres in Spring Training before the injury occurred.
"He's a guy our Minor League people thought could at some point make our roster," Padres manager Bud Black said. "[It's] unfortunate that he suffered that severe ankle sprain, but we'll see now. The way that it's gone, there are lots of opportunities so far for guys. He's a guy that pitched his way onto the 40-man roster and will be given a look here in the near term."


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I don't think Idol is any better. The judges there are just as bias, they play favorites, and like DWTS, it's a TV show. If they had the ability to give out scores I doubt it'd be any different than DWTS. Randy does the 'dawg', Paula babbles, Simon is rude, and Kara just does a poor imitation of the 3. And it's not like the best singers go forward or ever win. This is no different than any other finale, and while I rarely agree with the scoring, I'm excited for tomorrow night. They've kept it close, and going into tomorrow no one knows what's going to happen. Everyone's got opinions, including the judges, so TV show aside they're going to vote based on what they liked. It's hard to find anything technical in the freestyle so if everyone's in sync with each other and provides a lively routine that isn't entertaining and not too OTT I think they've accomplished it. This has never been an official ballroom competition, and Tom said that many seasons ago. Popularity weighs in in the end anyway like any other show where viewers vote. The show is one of the highest rated on TV, so it's doing something right. I'll still be tuning in next season. Have to see who the show will go for thenOriginally Posted by Smiling In Ill;3456143;
Speaking of poor imitations-hip hop routines should be banned from this show. The pros, except Julianne and Karina, can't choreograph a hip hop routine to save their lives. The group dance last year was beyond a disaster. Any freestyle that goes the freestyle route usually goes down the tubes and costs someone. Plus, the whole two person double cartwheel is so overdone. And is the show really that proud of the music and band? I've often given it a break, but dang, that paso was beyond the worst.
May the best guy or gal win tomorrow night (but hopefully the guy from France).


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Effective Date: 06/11/2010, Docket: RP10-732-000, Status: Effective
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(3) The level of daily firm entitlements that the Releasing Shipper elects to
release, expressed as a numeric quantity per day for Transportation and
total release period quantity.
(4) The Primary Route(s) or segment within such Primary Route(s), and quantity
to be released for such Primary Route.
(5) The requested effective date and the term of the release.
(6) The minimum acceptable period of release and minimum acceptable quantities
(if any).
(7) The Releasing Shipper's maximum reservation rate (including any demand type
surcharges, direct bills, or similar mechanisms), any minimum rate requirement,
whether bids are to be submitted on a reservation or volumetric basis, and
whether the bids should be stated in dollars and cents or percent of the
maximum tariff rate. The maximum and minimum rates may separately identify
surcharges and direct bills, or such amounts can be included in the total rate.
The Releasing Shipper may specify a minimum reservation charge requirement that
is in excess of the maximum tariff rate for the applicable service if the term of
the proposed release is for one (1) Year or less and the release is to take effect
on or before one (1) Year from the date on which Transporter is notified of the
(8) The Releasing Shipper's request (if at all) for Transporter to market actively
the capacity to be released.
(9) The legal name of the Replacement Shipper that is designated in any pre-
arranged release ("Pre-arranged Replacement Shipper").
(10) Whether the capacity is to be released on a recallable basis, and, if so, the
terms and conditions of such recall, and whether the Releasing Shipper is
authorized to reput the release if and when it notifies Transporter that the
recall is no longer in effect; or whether the capacity is to be released on a
permanent basis.
(11) Whether the capacity to be released is contingent on the release of other
capacity, or on certain terms and conditions, and if so, the capacity, terms
and/or conditions upon which the release is contingent.
(12) The terms and conditions under which Releasing Shipper will accept contingent
bids, including bids that are contingent upon the Replacement Shipper acquiring
Transportation on a pipeline interconnected to Transporter, the method for
evaluating contingent bids, what level of proof is required by the contingent
bidder to demonstrate that the contingency did not occur, and for what time
period the next highest bidder will be obligated to acquire the capacity if the
next winning contingent bidder declines the release.
(13) Whether Releasing Shipper requires bidders to post a deposit with Transporter,
not to exceed the amount required by Transporter pursuant to Section 3.1 of the
General Terms and Conditions of this Tariff, to guard against frivolous bids.
Deposits will be refunded to losing bidders at the time the capacity is awarded,
and credited against the Replacement Shipper's invoices until fully utilized.


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When you type a kid's name into google and the page explodes with youtube highlights, you know he's a big deal. With a 6-3, 215 pound frame, division one school's such as West Virginia, Toledo and Akron saw Zach Shaw as a big deal, but only one fit the mold for the Coshocton linebacker. In one of the biggest signings in Redskins history, Shaw signed to play Big Ten football at Indiana University. Shaw set a school record for tackles and interceptions during his junior year, was named Eastern district defensive player of the year this past season, and will also play in the North-South All-Star game. {click video link for more}
At Zanesville, several D-I programs were interested in Anthony Smith before the 2010 football season, but when a season ending ankle injury benched the Blue Devil defensive end, D-I prospects were sidelined as well. However, national signing day still came with joy for Smith who inked the dotted line to play division two football at Ohio Dominican. Smith is nearly back to 100 percent and ODU certainly benefits from the addition of the 6-2, 235 pound DE. Joining Smith is good friend and teammate Braily Blair. In 2010, Blair compiled 13 touchdowns rushing and four interceptions as a linebacker on his way to first team All-Ohio accolades. {click video link for more}


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New LS3 TKO-600 5 Speed Connect and Cruise Packages
These factory-engineered engine-and-transmission combinations that include all the electronic control modules, wiring harnesses and other key components you need with the simplicity of one part number. The Chevrolet Performance engineers matched the engines and transmissions for optimal performance and durability, so you can wring out all the horsepower from them with total confidence. The specially calibrated controllers are designed for retrofit installation in older vehicles, for easier and quicker installation and operation, without the need for third-party tuning.
GM LS3 430HP Engine and TKO 600 Package Includes:
• GMP-19301326-PX Prepped & Primed LS3 430HP Engine with Installed Holley muscle car oil pan
• CPP Engine Controller and Harness
• Tremec TKO 600Transmission
• Clutch, Flywheel, Bellhousing
• Slip Yoke
• Shifter Package with Boot
• Complete Hardware Package
• Pace Pass-Thru Can & Tach lead harness
Pace Performance GM LS3 430HP Crate Engine with Holley Oil Pan Engine Includes:
• Pace engine prep and oil priming service. Click Here for more information.
• Fully GM assembled long block
• Ignition Coils, Plug Wires and Spark Plugs
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• Intake, Injectors and Throttle Body
• 14" Auto Trans Flexplate
• Harmonic Balancer
• Front timing cover
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• Pace installed Holley 302-1 oil pan (click here for measurements and details), other oil pans available upon request.
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Displacement: 376 CID, 6.2L
Bore x Stroke: 4.060" x 3.620"
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Recommended Fuel: 92 Octane
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It's easy to get a birth certificate in Snohomish County. The Vital Records office can provide official copies of birth certificates for anyone born in Washington state from 1907 to the present.
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Two of the Snohomish Health District's Board of Health members were recently recognized by Governor Inslee and the Washington State Board of Health. The mission of the State Board of Health is to provide statewide leadership in developing and promoting policies that prevent disease, and improve and protect the public's health for all people in Washington. Read More...
October brings fall, changing leaves and pumpkins—and the beginning of flu season. Last year, Snohomish County saw record numbers of influenza-related school absenteeism, hospitalizations and deaths. Additionally, hospital and EMS systems were strained by the increased demand of patients seeking immediate care. Read More...
The Washington State Department of Health has notified the Snohomish Health District that the Port Susan area is closed to all species of recreational shellfish harvesting due to elevated levels of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxin. Read More...
Residents and businesses in Snohomish County now have a simpler and safer way to participate in needle clean-up efforts. Starting Wednesday, free kits and needle disposal are available to residents and business owners cleaning up needles found in the community. Read More...
The Snohomish Health District recently reached out to first responders, medical providers, community leaders, and local partners last month asking for help in collecting data about opioid overdoses. Moving beyond the gathering of historical data, the effort convened representatives from across the county to voluntarily collect real-time data on overdoses for one week and share the results with the Health District. The result: reports of 37 total overdoses in Snohomish County that appeared to be related to opioids, including three deaths. Read More...
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Dr. Heath Adam Ackley, a 15-year teaching veteran at Azusa Pacific University (APU), may lose his position. Last week he revealed to school administrators last week that he is a transgender person who is going through a divorce from as he seeks a legal name change and gender transition.
Ackerly's precarious employment status point to the ongoing debate in Christian circles over the status of LGBT people in church circles. While the university's evangelical doctrine clearly prohibits homosexual behavior, their statement on gender does not specifically ban trans people. However, a read of their statements indicates that the only appropriate expression of one's sexuality at APU is between a man and a woman ideally for the purpose of procreation.
In response, some students at APU followed the lead of a growing number of their evangelical peers by choosing a relationship with a teacher they respected instead of adherence to their school's teaching on human sexuality. They chose to stand in solidarity with their teacher by launching a petition asking the university to "strive to create a safer environment for students and faculty who have been marginalized by APU's conservative policies, as well as those who have been victims of spiritual violence on campus."
The Rev. Mykal Slack, a trans-identified clergy person who describes himself as a "Bridge Builder, Worship Leader and Diversity Trainer" offered these scriptural insights that point to what it means to be a faith based ally:
While the passage goes on to say that Jesus couldn't minister there in the same ways as he could in other places, it also says that he was able to touch and heal some of the people there who needed that healing. Ackley's powerful witness to live in spirit and in truth will have incredible impact on at least a few people in the university because they are listening, paying more attention to who the kingdom of God really looks like, and recognizing that how they may be living their lives doesn't represent the full measure of what it means to have a life of faith. These are at the heart of what good allies, especially allies of faith can do.
In assessing this situation at APU, the Rev. Dr. Cameron Partridge, a lecturer at Harvard Divinity School and the Episcopal Chaplain at Boston University, points to a larger fundamental question, "Why should the very existence of trans professors of theology or of religious studies be so unusual to begin with?"
As the struggle for acceptance of trans people in an increasing pluralistic culture continues, one does find signs of hope. For those looking to be a better ally to the trans community the Rev. Shanon Kearns, a priest with the Old Catholic Diocese of New Jersey, penned some helpful insights regarding what he could use from allies. Also at the Believe Out Loud website, I offer some guidelines for religious leaders who want to welcome trans people into their faith communities.


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ah, but Joshua Jackson is still acting? I thought it was gone after Dawson's Creek and now look:)
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I do it all the time to "cool off" the folks up front! :p It is preventable if you pay attention.. It is all so very easy to do once you learn how to. ;)
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I do it all the time to "cool off" the folks up front! :p It is preventable if you pay attention.. It is all so very easy to do once you learn how to. ;)
done it will all 3 of mine, some on purpose, some not. felt really bad one time and only one time when it happened-got some ones phone wet.
i have done it a few times..my bow sits like a foot out the water. i ahve came around a few times and throttled down and was watching my buddy in the water and would catch my own wake and have some come over.
I would say spearing your own wake is the most common - but I don't boat i busy water. I would naver take my 99 Mobius in high seas or even on a busy river - just because of the low freeboard at the nose. We first found out by accident if you come about quickly/sharply and throttle down - it is almost inevitable. Your choices are to either throttle up before you ht the wave OR get the boat more parallel to the roller. If you are sideways to the roller you just get an awkward waggle. If you are perpendicular to it and at no/low throttle - you cuold easily tke on a lot of water.
I used to take rollers frequently in my OBV until I learned how not to- now I never do unless I want to. My buddy has a Tige which the salesman assured him is a "dry boat" and I make it a point to soak his carpet at least twice a summer.
Only done it once in mine. We came upon a huge set of rollers from tubers running circles, I had a pregnant lady on board and was told by my wife to not bounce her around much, I had to throttle down to avoid crashing through the rollers so we ended up submarining through two of them, water over the windshield, everyone is now soaking wet but I at least didn't bounce the lady... opened my floor hatch to the center drain to let the water get to the bilge pump, kicked on all ballast pumps to drain the bags and get us higher in the water and idled back to the rider and then the dock... good times :-)


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I'm trying to configure JBoss 3.2.3 with Oracle 10g.
What I need it to do is to get JBoss to associate the JBoss authenticated user with any queries passed through to Oracle and I want JBoss to continue to pool connections.
Apparently Oracle allows a JDBC connection (session) to act as proxy for other JDBC connections that allows 'Scott2' to act as 'Scott' but be recorded as 'Scott2' in Oracle but authenticated with Oracle as 'Scott'.
Does anyone know how to do it ?
I know there is a way to do it with get database authentication happening with JBoss login configuration but how does that affect connection caching and how do you configure the connection to use the authenticated principal ?
Cheers Tom
EJB programming & troubleshooting: JBOSS-Oracle:configuring datasource use callerPrincipal as proxy
JBOSS-Oracle:configuring datasource use callerPrincipal as proxy (3 messages)
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- Posted on: August 15 2004 17:29 EDT
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- I'm looking into this too by B Snyder on August 17 2004 14:04 EDT
- Oracle's Proxy Connection by Walter Kaselow on August 19 2004 10:05 EDT
- Oracle's Proxy Connection by Shoaib Akhtar on August 31 2004 07:40 EDT
I'm looking into this too[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: B Snyder
- Posted on: August 17 2004 14:04 EDT
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I am looking into this too. I will post anything relevant that I find.
Oracle's Proxy Connection[ Go to top ]
Try this: http://www.oracle.com/technology/sample_code/tech/java/sqlj_jdbc/files/9i_jdbc/OCIMidAuthSample/Readme.html ... however, I am trying to figure out how to make it work with a datasource.
- Posted by: Walter Kaselow
- Posted on: August 19 2004 10:05 EDT
- in response to Tom Hall
Oracle's Proxy Connection[ Go to top ]
- Posted by: Shoaib Akhtar
- Posted on: August 31 2004 07:40 EDT
- in response to Walter Kaselow
We are facing the same problem and want to use Oracle Proxy Connection in JBoss. I think without JBoss managing the pool it is not possible to participate in ongoing JTA transaction by EJB CMT. Is not is so ?
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My stretchs are very large n matured. They ate almost everywhere on my body da stretch marks develop. Um so embarass with them da I don't wear shorts nor sleeveless blouses.
Stretch marks are generally associated with pregnancy, but they can be caused by other reasons too.
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*You can create your own stretch mark cream by combining aloe vera gel, olive oil, and wheat germ oil.
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|Do start the treatment for stretch marks as early as possible or else they can cause deep indentation.
|Do not scratch the areas where you are likely to develop stretch marks.
|Do drink plenty of water throughout the day as staying hydrated improves skin elasticity.
|Do not expect the scars to disappear completely, unless you opt for surgery.
|Do take a well-balanced, nutritious diet including judicious amount of vitamin C as it helps improve stretch marks. You may take an oral supplement, too.
My stretchs are very large n matured. They ate almost everywhere on my body da stretch marks develop. Um so embarass with them da I don't wear shorts nor sleeveless blouses.
I started using "BAHAMA BALM" Aloe Vera in November of last year & my old stretch marks on my buttocks have been disappearing I developed it at age eleven during puberty I'm 29 now and will finally be able to wear a swimsuit! ALOE VERA WORKS! I apply twice day usually after I shower, results are amazing.
When u say u use it after shower do u apply it when still wet or after u have dried off?


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Amy Hubert wanted to do something bigger.
Her son James should have turned 18 in May. He should have graduated from high school.
He never even made it to kindergarten.
After falling and being discovered in the backyard pool at Hubert's newly rented home in Georgia, the 16-month-old was confined to a hospital bed.
James' organs slowly started working during the first week. Although he flat-lined, the occasional beep on the monitor gave his family hope. But, the toddler never woke up.
By the end of the second week, doctors ran tests and determined James was brain dead. Hubert and her husband decided to pull the breathing tube out of James' mouth.
"I did not stay in the room," Hubert said. "I couldn't do it."
After James died in 1997, the family did little things — like donating his viable organs and planting a tree at Carl Levin Park when they moved to Harker Heights — in memory of him.
This year his family decided to donate $2,500 to the district's alumni association for the James K. Hubert Memorial Scholarship.
"We've been trying to do things to make something good out of bad, as much as you can," Hubert said. "Education is very important to us, too. My husband came from a very, very small town in Texas. He's the first not only to graduate from college, but then he went to medical school and he knows what education has opened up in his life."
The scholarship is one of many the Killeen ISD Alumni Association, a division of the Killeen ISD Education Foundation, is offering to graduating seniors in the district to supplement the cost of tuition, room and board, and books.
"We are proud to offer 21 different scholarship opportunities totaling ($38,940)," said Joyce Hodson, director of the foundation. "The value of the scholarships range from 18 hours of tuition waivers at (Central Texas College) to $8,000 for a top-ranking academic senior."
For the scholarship honoring James, requirements include someone with a 3.0 GPA. Special consideration will be given to students pursuing a career as an athletic trainer or students leaning toward a career in medicine, preferably sports medicine.
"Since my son was so young, we really have no idea what he would have done to pick something," Hubert said. "He probably would have picked sports, knowing his dad."
Although her son won't be walking across the stage this May, Hubert wants the recipient of the scholarship to be aware of the story behind it.
"(I hope they) really appreciate it that much more and study and do something with it," she said. "We don't expect anything in return, we want them to do something to make their lives better."


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