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Cara Elliott Passionately Yours
Forever / March 4, 2014 / $7.99 digital
Proper young ladies of the ton-especially ones who have very small dowries-are not encouraged to have an interest in intellectual pursuits. Indeed, the only thing they are encouraged to pursue is an eligible bachelor.
Preferably one with both a title and a fortune.
So, the headstrong, opinionated Sloane sisters must keep their passions a secret.
Ah, but secret passions are wont to lead a lady into trouble . . .
In Cara Elliott's Passionately Yours, Miss Caroline Sloane is the youngest daughter of the Hellions of High Street, and also the most passionate. Their father raised Caro and her sisters to follow intellectual pursuits, even if it was a little unconventional for a young lady of the ton to have such an education.
Big sisters Olivia and Anna have followed their dreams of writing, and Caro hopes to find passion to inspire her poetry, but she would also like to have an experience like the ones Anna writes.
"That's another reason I like Caro Sloane. She has such interesting knowledge about a wide variety of subjects. I wish I knew half the things she does."
"Be careful what you wish for," replied Alec. "In London, the three Sloane sisters are known as the Hellions of High Street. The mean-spirited gossip died down once the eldest married the very rich and very proper Earl of Wrexham. But the family is still considered a trifle odd."
"Because their late father was an eccentric scholar and adventurer, and believe his daughters should have the same education as any son would receive."
In the last story in Cara Elliott's latest trilogy, Passionately Yours, Caro finally gets her own adventure, so it is a good thing that her father dragged his girls on his escapades and taught them many unladylike talents. Caroline is visiting Bath with her mother and is making a new friend in Isobel Urquehart. When Caro and Isobel as accosted by some bandits when they are getting home late from their explorations, Caro is not one to cower and wait for a white knight to come to the rescue; she would prefer to be like Emmeline, one of the heroines her sister Anna has penned:
Trying to outfight him was madness. Still, she snatched up a rock as she turned to follow her friend.
All too quickly, the man was up and after them, cursing with rage. His heavy footfalls were coming closer and closer…
Caro whirled and flung her missile at his forehead. Thank God for the games of hunting skill she had played with the tribal children in Crete. Hours of practice had honed her aim to a lethal accuracy.
The rock smashed into his right eye, drawing a pained howl. Half stunned, half blind, he staggered on, fists flailing wildly.
As she dipped and dodged the blows, Caro decided that the only hope in escape lay in trying one last, desperate measure. Ducking low, she darted straight at him and brought her knee up hard between his legs.
Very hard.
The brute dropped like a sack of stones, his curses turning to a mewling whimper.
She also runs into a former acquaintance when she finds out Isobel's brother is none other than Alec McClellan, Lord Strathcona, whom she met the previous autumn at Dunbar Castle in Scotland. Alec is involved in a secret political society seeking independence for Scotland. It was Caro, who with her sister, Anna and her new husband, Devlin, helped Alec stop a violent plot being conspired by his former associates.
Caro and Alec might have shared an adventure, but Alec isn't about to bring the headstrong Caro into his confidence as to why he has suddenly traveled to England.
As for his conjectures, those he wasn't about to share with anyone.
Especially a headstrong hellion.
During the trouble in Scotland, Caro Sloane had proved she was more than ready to charge in where angels should fear to tread. Courage, passion, fire that blazed bright as a mountain sunset.
Such fire could lead a lady into trouble.
But it is a good thing that Caro isn't like the wilting, lilies of the ton, that inner fire (and those special talents that her father taught her) is what keeps Caro safe when she is abducted and once again, she will not sit around waiting to be saved from her tower prison. Caro plots and plans and escapes at her first opportunity.
Caro tried not to think of Alec galloping in on a white charger, a knight in shining armor flashing a mighty sword and heroic smile.
For one thing, his horse was a dappled gray.
No, she must play the intrepid heroine and save herself.
Locks were child's play for a Hellion of High Street. In the wilds, her father had made a game of teaching his daughters survival skills, believing a lady ought to know who to fend for herself.
"Thank you, Papa," she whispered as she knelt down and pressed the knifeblade against the main lever, then slipped in a straightened pin and began to jiggle.
It was only a matter of moments before she heard a welcome snick.
Caro spends her time waiting for passion to find her and inspire her poetry, but with all the crazy adventures which keep finding her, she might be able to give her sister Anna and her fictional heroines inspiration to last for years.
Learn more or order a copy of Passionately Yours by Cara Elliott, out March 4:
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100. Is there anything else apart from that?
(Mr Garnett) Then you have things like delays at stations.
The timetable was written in 1990, so you have a two-minute stop
which allows people to get on and off the train for 45 seconds.
You simply cannot do it in 45 seconds any more because there are
so many people on the trains. That means extending the timetable
and if you extend the timetable everybody then jumps up and down
and says you are trying to get out of your Passenger Charter and
everything else. There has to be a mature debate in the industry
about how we address some of those issues and that is one of the
very good things that the Strategic Rail Authority is now beginning
to lead with its review of timetables.
101. Anything else?
(Mr Garnett) That is the key issue. We have to make
sure we recruit enough drivers ourselves. So far, of the 144 drivers
we have recruited since the start of the franchise 29 per cent
are now coming from outside and between now and the end of the
franchise that will rise to 50 per cent.
102. How many of those 144 have you trained?
(Mr Garnett) We have trained them all, but from outside
the industry we have trained 34, coming totally off the street.
The rest have come in from other parts of the network and we have
then had to retrain them on our railway, on our rolling stock.
103. Did the HSE look at your training programmes?
(Mr Garnett) They looked at our training programmes,
but I do not know what they said. If they had been critical, I
would have heard about it very quickly and I heard nothing to
say that there was a problem.
104. As far as you know, they did not raise
any particular policies you were following and they did not make
any criticisms of how you did it.
(Mr Garnett) As far as I know, but I shall write back
to confirm that point when I have had a chance to check it.
105. Do you think it is sensible to hold season
ticket prices at RPI minus one?
(Mr Garnett) In all honesty, no. We are squeezing
more and more traffic in into a narrower and narrower period.
With the ever increasing escalation in London house prices we
are noticing that people are moving further and further out. For
us the rise in season ticket holders from places like Grantham
and Newark is very considerable in the last two to three years;
enormous house expansion taking place there and all we are doing
is adding to this congestion coming into London termini. I go
back to my point that if you got rationalisation of the operators
in London termini you might be able to squeeze some more paths
in during the peak.
106. More paths. You would not use money as
a barrier to make sure that only some people were able to use
season tickets.
(Mr Garnett) It is very difficult, if people have
gone and bought a house out in Newark on an assumption of what
the season tickets cost. In the late 1980s BR dramatically changed
the rules on season tickets. I remember, though I was not involved
in the railways then, that it caused a tremendous outcry from
people who had moved out on an assumption and then the rules changed
dramatically. We cannot go on distorting the fares. It is a bit
like the fuel escalator. If you hold fares at RPI minus one over
a periodthe same point that Mr Green was making about the
saver fareyou start seriously to distort the relativities
and at some stage this issue of season ticket fares is going to
have to be grasped. My guess is that it is not one any government
is going to want to do in the short term.
107. You are seriously suggesting that in fact
it would have to be changed.
(Mr Garnett) I think at some stage it is going to
have to be addressed because we cannot afford to run more and
more trains in a two-hour period in the peak and a two-hour period
in the evening, if we do not have the capacity in the network
to do that.
108. Mr Green, sections of your CrossCountry
network are in need of substantial improvement. Do you think that
those priority improvements which you identified will actually
be implemented by 2010?
(Mr Green) What is happening at the moment is a £200
million investment programme to upgrade the track. It is bang
on schedule and it is being very well managed. I am confident
that will happen.
109. That is a rather careful answer. You did
actually identify things like additional tracks, Darlington-Newcastle,
all the others, you have a long list, including electrification
for Crewe-Kidsgrove and Crewe-Chester. Forgive me if I say I am
mildly surprised that you think everything is bang on track. Are
you saying that the one bit you have started is all right, but
you are not talking about the others?
(Mr Green) Yes, that is fair. For the future, I think
the rail industry is going to need more capacity in the North-East.
I think the Darlington-Newcastle corridor will get congested and
will need extra capacity which could be done. We should worry
about the whole schedule.
110. When are you going to finish your negotiations
about the West Coast Mainline?
(Mr Green) I would have thought by this autumn we
would have a new deal with the Strategic Rail Authority, Railtrack,
Regulator, in place. It is a complicated process which has to
be gone through, as you know.
Chairman: We have gathered that it is not quite
as simple as it might be.
111. When does autumn start, when the leaves
get on the track? You said "by this autumn" and I just
wondered whether you could tell us when autumn started.
(Mr Green) I am sorry, I cannot give you a precise
date. I made a general comment that by the time all this has been
through the process of the Rail Regulator, the process of the
Strategic Rail Authority and Railtrack and our board, I would
have thought autumn was a fair bid for a date. The work is still
happening. The trains are being delivered, the track is being
renewed. It is all about re-funding.
112. Mr Cameron, they have excluded infrastructure
plans from the Trans-Pennine bids. Are we therefore saying there
will be no improvements before the end of an eight-year franchise?
(Mr Cameron) None is planned at the moment for the
Trans-Pennine Express network. They were planned in the original
bid, but they were excluded, as you quite rightly say, from the
second bid.
113. The Strategic Rail Authority said that
it will move to a 15-year contract between break points, but the
Trans-Pennine contract is eight years. What can you do in that
(Mr Cameron) They put a very specific franchise bid
to us. They suggested that we had to come up with plans to spend
£140 million NPV over eight years, which roughly speaking
is about £25 million a year. What we put back in our proposal
was to put new rolling stock in, 176 vehicles. We are also making
sure that we put additional drivers and conductors in place to
make sure there is operational resilience for running the service.
We are talking about £15 million worth of station improvements,
much quicker ability to buy tickets by investing in ticket offices
which do not currently exist at some stations, places like Kendal,
by putting additional staff in on those stations, car parks, CCTV.
That is what we are proposing to spend £140 million on.
114. Over what period?
(Mr Cameron) Over eight years.
115. Mr Garnett, you have a negotiation of your
own with ASLEF. Are we to take it that you are more dependent
on fare box revenue that the other operators?
(Mr Garnett) Yes, we are totally subsidy free. We
operate totally in the private sector in terms of having to live
on every passenger who pays to travel on our railway. We pride
ourselves on having good working relations with our staff. We
have partnership agreements with the three trade unions; we are
the only train company to have that. We also received Investors
in People the other day, the first train company to do that. We
work very, very hard to get these good working relationships with
our staff, them with us. We are therefore dependent on negotiations
with the trade unions and we have to make sure that we can survive
inside that framework of being subsidy free.
116. Every one of you is comfortable with the
programme which is being suggested to you by the Strategic Rail
Authority for upgrading your various services, or not?
(Mr Garnett) If I may respond for the East Coast,
we do not yet know. We are waiting to hear what the East Coast
upgrade is going to be and the timescale on it. We hope to hear
in the near future.
117. Mr Green, you are still in negotiation.
(Mr Green) My worry would be that 85 per cent of all
the investment in the West Coast is now going to go on renewals,
which means that only 15 per cent is going on enhancement. There
is going to be a shortage on new capacity and we are talking very
seriously with the Strategic Rail Authority on that subject and
they fully understand the issues.
(Mr Cameron) On the Trans-Pennine Express, in the
first bid we put in quite a lot of infrastructure, nearly £1
billion of infrastructure. Whilst that is not forthcoming in the
second franchise, what we have suggested is that we do something
akin to the Highways Authority, where we develop schemes on behalf
of the Strategic Rail Authority ready for when funding becomes
available in future ten-year plans. On the Northern franchise
no proposals have been put to us yet, so we do not know what may
be forthcoming in the Northern franchise.
118. As far as Manchester is concerned, there
are too many operators, are there not, just as the argument about
coming into London, coming into Manchester Piccadilly and there
are problems of capacity at the airport? Would it not be logical
to have one operator coming into Manchester and not this huge
(Mr Green) Certainly fewer; I do not know that you
could ever get it down to one. You are absolutely right.
119. If we could have fewer, how much extra
capacity could we get by having fewer?
(Mr Green) There would certainly be more; I could
not possibly guess a percentage. At the moment we have conflicting
needs, conflicting demands, we physically cross on the tracks
outside Manchester and it is quite a mess.

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New York prosecutors say a cast member on VH1's "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta" has been arrested and charged with failing to pay over $1 million in child support.
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Discussion in 'Smash Brothers' started by SSBBDerick, Mar 8, 2008.
Tommorow can't get here sooner?
18 HOURS FOR ME..... OH THE PAIN :sick: :sick:
i get tomoroow around 11am
It truly does feel like Christmas Eve! Merry Brawl Eve everyone!
it will with the help of a time machine
*builds flux capacitor*
ya, it truly does.
Merry Brawl eve everyone.
It is such a glorious day is it not.
I've got only 7 hours till I get the game...
This is the looongest day ever!
I couldn't sleep at all last night.
Brawl is gonna be awesome
ohh jeez I can not wait I am trying not to sit and look at a clock so I played smash 64 and smash on the cube all day!!!!!!!!!!:mad5: hurry up brawl 17 hours.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh:mad5: ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh:mad5: :mad5: :mad5: :mad5:
midnighter pickupers are lucky i still have to wait until 11 am tomorrow but my friend is spending the night and were staying up late so wake aroung that time:aureola:
Jeez, you really like posting huh:lol:
I'm going to the midnight release, 5 hours till the line starts. Me & my friends were thinking maybe throw a few stink bombs if the line is long to clear them out...
same at toys r us
make sure you take a gas mask or you might just stink yourself out of the line:lol:
thats exactly where im getting myne:yesnod:
I Just Realized Clocks Are Put Forward 1 Hour Tonight
ohhhhhhh man come on just 7 more hours
technically, it's tomorrow morning at 2:00, so no worries
lol I just started Super Paper Mario to try and distract me. It isn't working lol


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US President Barack Obama warned the West stood ready to impose further sanctions on Russia if no progress was made in de-escalating the continuing crisis.
He was speaking following an apparent breakthrough at emergency talks in Geneva attended by the US, Russia, the European Union and Ukraine.
Initial "concrete steps" agreed by the parties included the handing back of occupied buildings, the disbanding of armed groups, an amnesty for protesters, and the use of international observers.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said progress had been made at the summit, but stressed words now needed to be translated into actions.
Mr Obama said: "I don't think we can be sure of anything at this point. There is the possibility, the prospect, that diplomacy may de-escalate the situation.
"The question now becomes will in fact they use the influence they've exerted in a disruptive way to restore some order so that Ukrainians can carry out an election and move forward with the decentralisation reforms that they've proposed.
"We are not going to count on it until we see it.
"We have put in place additional consequences that we can impose on the Russians if we do not see actual improvement of the situation."
Foreign Secretary William Hague welcomed the commitments made at the Geneva talks, believing they offered "a route for de-escalation", but added commitments by Russia on disarming of armed groups were "critical".
Hopes of a defusing the crisis came amid heightened tensions with Ukraine's security service reportedly detaining 10 Russian citizens with intelligence backgrounds, and Vladimir Putin accusing Kiev of plunging the country into an "abyss".
Earlier, during his annual televised phone-in with the nation that lasted nearly four hours, Mr Putin rejected the presence of Russian forces in eastern Ukraine as "nonsense", and welcomed the diplomatic efforts to defuse the situation "through dialogue, not force".
However, he admitted for the first time the presence of Russian forces in Crimea - before and during the referendum to join Russia.
And he did not rule out sending troops across the border again, saying he hoped he would not have to.
Mr Putin raised the issue of gas supply and gave Ukraine a month to pay the $2.2bn (£1.3bn) Moscow claims Kiev owes for gas supplies before it demanded upfront payments.
There was also a surprise question in English on surveillance from Edward Snowden, the whistleblower and former CIA operative who has been granted asylum in Russia.
Meanwhile, the US announced it is to send military assistance to Ukraine including medical supplies and power generators, but not weapons or ammunition.
In recent days tensions have increased with pro-Russian separatists stepping up activities in the east of Ukraine.
The well-armed militias have seized armoured vehicles and weapons from Ukrainian forces and occupied a number of government buildings in towns and cities.
In the latest violence, three pro-Russian separatists were reportedly shot dead during an overnight raid on a Black Sea military base in Mariupol.
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Popular culture has taught us that book clubs should be divided by gender. HarperPerennial and Plume hope to encourage co-ed book clubs with the "Ultra Violet Reading Challenge."
To support Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman and The Violets of March by Sarah Jio, the publishers are encouraging co-ed book clubs to host violet-themed book parties. Follow this link to sign up on Facebook–co-ed clubs can win prizes and interact with the authors online.
Jio gave this statement in the release: "I know very few women who read books with the men in their lives, and zero women who go to co-ed book clubs. I found that Domestic Violets and The Violets of March share themes that men and women can all relate to: loss, the complexities of marriage, trust, forgiveness, finding our way, and so much more. We both write about the male and female experience from two different perspectives."
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Class, please pay attention. Uh, young man in the back there-that's right, baldy, you with the Doc Martens. Take those headphones off!
Sorry for the interruption. As I was saying, no one really knows when punk rock began. Some think it's been around forever, but they have no real, solid, theoretical proof of this-only faith. One thing we do know is that when it reared its ugly, Mohawked head in England around 1976-77, it was played and embraced by poor, working-class youths.
Fastforward to the year 2000. Punx not dead, oi-oi, but it's morphed into a many-headed shiny beast. Some of this shit has little or nothing to do with the social or musical roots of punk, but it looks good with baggy shorts on a skateboard so it gets green-lighted by the arbiters of culture. Looks wild, but it's really safe for the kiddies.
Enter Union 13. Born in the East Los housing project/barrio of Boyle Heights about 8 years ago (when the band members barely had pubic hair), this gang of screaming delinquents possesses all the elements that real, classic punk should-wicked sarcasm, righteous anger against the status quo, deep-dark cynicism and just the right amount of damaged and heartbroken idealism, owing to the generally messed-up state of things. And here they are now, somewhere in their mid-20s and getting ready to release their third outing for Epitaph Records: Youth, Betrayal and the Awakening. With a little more experience gleaned from the Punk-O-Rama and Watcha tours, a little more knowledge about getting their shit together so they could say what they had to say when they got the big shot, and maybe a little more time and sophistication in the studio, Union, along with producer Donnell Cameron, have come up with a snarling bouquet of crispy-clean dirt, grit and soul.
"The sound of the street ain't always pretty," says guitarist JosŽ Mercado-which is truly the case here, as vocal cords fray and strain over bilingual tales of hardship, loss and survival. "Where we grew up, our parents taught us to be honest," he says. "You had to be honest, and you had to be hard." Which is also the case with the music here-no concessions have been made to prettiness or poppiness for the sake of "accessibility."
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This also holds true for the band's status in the murky waters of the musical community: they're maybe just a little (or a lot) too brown and Chicano for all the white-bread suburban punkers out there and maybe not rock en espa–ol enough for the hardcore raza 'cause they sing in both English and espa–ol. Like all real outcasts and rebels, they occupy a space they had to create for themselves-and thus a marketing person's nightmare becomes a gift for those not looking for the same old easy things.
And that is really the case here. Sure, Union 13 cut their early musical teeth on 7 Seconds, Bad Religion, Crass and other punk luminaries, and you can surely still hear all that in the music. But what other punk band would list Mozart, b-ball, smoking herb and hip-hop as their main influences? Hell, Edward Escoto, the lead vocalist, still works at a skate shop in Cypress Park when the band comes off the road. What could be more punk rock, blue-collar or kill-all-rock-stars than that?
The sad thing is that a million bands with half the talent and even less integrity have, unfortunately, sold tons more records and are far better known than Union 13. Hopefully, that's all about to change. In the meantime, welcome to the world that Union 13 know so well and that Charles Mingus so aptly called "Beneath the Underdog." Or, to paraphrase Frank Zappa-as well as another group of heroes from the Eastside, Los Lobos-Union 13 are just a little punk rock band from East L.A.


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The long-awaited court decision in Zambia has finally been made,
and hunting areas are on the brink of being allocated. We have that
from trusted sources in Zambia who tell us ZAWA has been instructed
by the court to revert to its earlier allocation program and carry
it out with all possible speed. The earlier allocation program called
for Community Resource Boards to have the final authority in determining
who gets which areas. Vesting that much authority in local communities
is widely viewed as the only way to break a long cycle of corruption
in Zambia, not just in the hunting-area allocation process but in
the way hunting revenue is handled. The court decision is clearly
a victory for those who have been hoping Zambia would allocate hunting
areas to high-quality outfitters.
As this is written, the letter instructing ZAWA how to proceed
is still making its way from the court to ZAWA Headquarters. We
do not anticipate any last-minute problems, however. "This
is it," our source said this morning. "Hunting is going
to proceed in this country right away."
We are following this matter closely and will post the list of
approved companies as soon as it has been released. In the meantime,
if you have been holding off on booking a safari elsewhere because
of events in Zambia, your wait was worth it. Some high-quality,
last-minute safari opportunities are about to come on the market.
- Don Causey.


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by Christopher Freeburn | March 12, 2013 12:45 pm
[1]An inside source tells Reuters that at a company meeting last month an employee asked Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO[2]) CEO Marissa Mayer if some top-level engineering talent was bypassing the company due to her strict hiring process[3]. Mayer is said to personally interview every candidate and insists on high standards.
Replying to the question, Mayer reportedly said, "Why can't we just be good at hiring?" In January, Mayer told shareholders that the number of job seekers applying to Yahoo had increased. She also indicated that the struggling Internet search giant was losing less of its top level talent to rivals since she became CEO.
Yahoo has faced hiring challenges for some time as its reputation in the technology industry has slipped. The company is currently looking to fill 900 positions, 8% of its total payroll. Mayer has moved to bolster the quality of new hires by imposing a more rigorous screening process.
Insiders say that Mayer is trying to boost the level of management discipline at Yahoo. Last month, she provoked some criticism by ending the company's policy of allowing employees to work from home[4].
Shares of Yahoo fell more than 1% in Tuesday midday trading.
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NG Logistics Support Contract for U.S. Navy
Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE: NOC) Sperry Marine business unit has been awarded a follow-on contract to provide performance-based logistics (PBL) support for navigation and steering systems installed on U.S. Navy surface ships and submarines.
The contract was awarded by Naval Inventory Control Point, Mechanicsburg, Pa., exercising a three-year option on a previously awarded five-year PBL contract. The total value of the three-year contract is $42m. The initial year award is valued at $14.8m.
Under the contract, Northrop Grumman Sperry Marine will provide material management, configuration management and program management services, as well as technical support, spares and repair parts for the WSN-7 series inertial navigation systems, AN/BPS-15 and AN/BPS-16 submarine radar systems, scalable integrated bridge systems on combatant ships and select steering gear material support on the Arleigh Burke DDG-51 class destroyers.


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finland is not a bad place to hold the competition, considering it is the home country of nokia, which is one of the largest cellphone manufacturers. the competition consisted of team and individual events. even more intriguing is that the event also includes a freestyle competition. the new world champion crowned in the individual category was lassi etel�talo. etel�talo, who is a native of finland, threw a phone 89 meters.
this is one of those times i wish i could have visited finland if only for the weekend of this event. it had to be absolutely hilarious to see people tossing cellphones. probably the best competition of all was the freestyle competition where people are judged by their style and appearance.
read more from the mobile phone throwing world championships website.
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|how is that? (12:23pm est tue aug 29 2006)
wait a minute…..a cell phone thrown 89 meters? that's like 292 feet. i don't buy it one bit. they had to used some sort equipment other than their arm! oh and website link, what a website it is….not! – by cynic
|thats nothing (1:06pm est tue aug 29 2006)
you take a dell d600 laptop and put the phone on the wristpad and just plug it in. that baby will lauch right out of the g*d*amn atmosphere.
thanks…i am here all week :-) – by michael dell
|re: thats nothing (2:39pm est tue aug 29 2006)
golf clap….. – by pop goes the battery
|i know the feeling (11:00am est wed aug 30 2006)
the winner must have been using the dreaded seimens clamshell phone. it would give me fits of rage when it would constantly shut itself off. may it rest in pieces. – by a better world


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Latest rainout causes another rotation shuffle for Royals
The rainout Saturday at Minnesota was welcome, giving the Kansas City Royals pitching staff and especially the bullpen a needed rest.
The rainout Monday night at Detroit for what was to be the opener of a three-game series was not as desirable, but it allowed manager Ned Yost to maneuver his rotation again.
The revised rotation does not include Luis Mendoza, who will likely be moving to the bullpen as the long man.
The rotation lines up this way: Luke Hochevar and Jonathan Sanchez will start Tuesday and Wednesday at Detroit. Danny Duffy and Bruce Chen will start Thursday and Friday against the Yankees at the start of a seven-game homestand (four against New York, three against Boston).
While the Saturday starter is to be determined, it will probably be Felipe Paulino, who threw 6 1/3 shutout innings in a rehab start Monday for Class AA Northwest Arkansas. Paulino, who has been on the disabled list due to a strained forearm, would be starting in his regular turn Saturday with four days of rest.
Yost acknowledged Paulino would join the club in Detroit and throw a bullpen session Wednesday.
Duffy missed his previous start Friday because of elbow stiffness, but he said he is ready to make his next start. Sanchez had the flu Sunday, and the new plan allows him another day to recover.
The Detroit rainout has been rescheduled for Sept. 24, which had been an open date for both clubs. The teams will also play the following three days in Comerica Park.


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RAS LANUF, Libya — As Libyan warplanes continued their attacks on rebel-controlled cities, Britain and France said they were seeking U.N. authority for a no-fly zone over the country, which slips closer and closer to a bloody civil war, Reuters reports.
The European countries are drafting a U.N. resolution for a no-fly zone, and NATO will take up the issue on Thursday, BBC reports.
"We are working closely with partners on a contingency basis on elements of a resolution on a no-fly zone, making clear the need for regional support, a clear trigger for such a resolution and an appropriate legal basis," British Foreign Secretary William Hague told Reuters Monday.
The violence in Libya has left a million people in need of humanitarian assistance, according to the United Nations.
"Humanitarian organisations need urgent access now," U.N. aid coordinator Valerie Amos told Reuters. "People are injured and dying and need help immediately."
President Barack Obama tried to pressure those in Muammar Gaddafi's inner circle to step down and pave the way for reform in the country.
Obama addressed Gaddafi's associates Monday and pressured them with the threat of possible future prosecution for their role in the Libyan uprising and crackdown.
"I want to send a very clear message to those who are around Colonel Gaddafi," Obama said at the Oval Office. "It is their choice to make, how they operate moving forward, and they will be held accountable for whatever violence continues to take place there."
Trying to persuade Gaddafi's inner circle to desert him has been a central part of the Obama administration's policy towards Libya, the Washington Post reports.
"The appeal to senior Libyan officials reflects the administration's assessment that Gaddafi is unlikely to step down on his own, even under extreme pressure, and that the best way to dislodge him from power is to peel away his closest confidants," it states.
Government forces intensified their counteroffensive against rebels near the oil hub of Ras Lanuf for a second day Monday, launching airstrikes amid talk by Western nations of a NATO-enforced no-fly zone.
President Barack Obama said the U.S. and its NATO allies were consulting on a "wide range" of potential responses, including military options, according to Bloomberg.
Meanwhile, the U.N. on Monday appointed a new envoy to Libya and said it would dispatch a humanitarian team as rebels struggled to hold ground in fierce clashes with Gaddafi's forces.
Jordanian former foreign minister Abdelilah Al-Khatib would "undertake urgent consultations with the authorities in Tripoli," the U.N. said in a statement.
It said U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon had spoken with Libya's foreign minister, Musa Kusa, and was "deeply concerned about the fighting in western Libya, which is claiming large numbers of lives and threatens even more carnage in the days ahead."
Rebels have been attempting to hold off heavy retaliation from Gaddafi's forces as the anti-government uprising in Libya moves into its third week. Clashes during the past two days have intensified as the rebels move west along the Libyan coast toward Tripoli, while pro-Gaddafi troops have escalated their efforts to retake Misrata and Zawiyah near the capital.
Gaddafi's forces appeared to escalate their counteroffensive on Sunday as they launched attacks on rebel-held cities and used helicopters and fighter planes to push back opposition forces from the town of Bin Jawwad.
On Monday there were reports Bin Jawwad had fallen to Gaddafi's men.
"The only advantage he has is the air force," one rebel, Saleh Mostafa, told USA Today, referring to Gaddafi.
CNN reported meanwhile that NATO had launched surveillance flights over Libya, perhaps as a precursor to establishing a no-fly zone, an option discussed by Western nations since the conflict began to prevent Gaddafi attacking his own people with war planes.
Event inside Libya suggest that it is headed for a protracted civil war rather than the kind of fast, people-powered revolution that recently brought down regimes in Egypt and Tunisia,
GlobalPost correspondent Nicole Sobecki, reporting from Ras Lanuf — scene of heavy fighting over the past few days — said the retaliation by Gaddafi's men had left dozens dead or injured and severely dented rebel confidence.
"You saw guys coming back in big trucks, some of them were crying," she said. "There was a lot of anger, they were very upset. There is definitely a sense of fear about where this will go."
Gaddafi forces also attacked Misrata, the largest town controlled by rebels outside the opposition-held east of the country, over the weekend. The rebels resisted tanks and heavy artillery using machine guns and sticks, CNN reported.
With medics at Misrata's hospital reporting 42 killed — 17 from the opposition and 25 pro-Gaddafi fighters — and 85 wounded, there were concerns over an apparent blockade of humanitarian and medical aid to the town.
"People are injured and dying and need help immediately," U.N. emergency relief co-ordinator Valerie Amos said. "I call on the authorities to provide access without delay to allow aid workers to help save lives."
Witnesses in Misrata said the fighting lasted for at least six hours on Sunday, with many civilian targets bearing the brunt.
"They bombed all the houses with heavy weapons," a doctor told the BBC. "They intentionally gunned and exploded our drug store. They bombed even around our hospital but fortunately nobody was injured. More than five mosques which I know are bombed."
Rebels also held back a determined assault by Gaddafi's forces on the town of Zawiya, 30 miles west of Tripoli, even as the government was claiming victory there and in Misrata.
Thousands of Gaddafi supporters thronged Tripoli's central Green Square on Sunday to celebrate in front of the international media, according to the Los Angeles Times.
"The demonstrators also circled the area in cars as they fired guns into the air, a seeming attempt to rally regime supporters ahead of dark days as the rebels continue their fight," it said, reporting that victory claims were later rescinded on state television.
There was continued debate both inside and outside of Libya over the need for foreign military intervention, with several influential U.S. senators expressing cautious support for the imposition of a no-fly zone over the country.
"[We should] prepare a no-fly zone in conjunction with our allies, not implement it. Certainly, [the] first hope would be, if it were called on, to be done only in the context of international agreement and sanction," Democrat John F. Kerry told CBS television's "Face the Nation."
Senior Republican John McCain told ABC television's "This Week" that a no-fly zone would send a message Gaddafi and encourage rebels, while fellow Republican Mitch McConnel proposed aiding and arming the rebels.
The campaign for international action was, however, dealt a setback by an undercover operation involving British special forces that ended in farce.
Six elite Special Air Service (SAS) soldiers and two MI6 agents they were protecting on a secret mission to make contact with opposition forces in their stronghold of Benghazi wound up captured by rebels alarmed at their arrival.
To add to the humiliation, a telephone call to secure their eventual release made by British envoy to Libyan Richard Northern was intercepted and leaked by authorities in Tripoli.
British media said the incident was not only a major embarrassment to the country's government but could undermine rebel claims that the Libyan uprising was not influenced by foreign powers.
Officials in rebel organizing committees in Benghazi were critical of the clandestine mission. One committee member, Essam Gheriani, told the Guardian: "We don't want new enemies, but this is no way to make contact."
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i want to move a CA Enterprise Authority from w2k3 to w2k8r2. The Target Server Name is diffrent to the source server.
I followd the CS Migration Guide from Microsoft.
What i did:
- backup CA db and registry source server
- uninstalled service
- installed Enterprise Authority Role
- importet db and restored reg Settings
- changes CAServerName in Registry to actual hostname
But in the AD the CertificateAuthorities is still pointing to the old Server.
CN=Certification Authorities,CN=Public Key Services,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=test,DC=test
But the CDP is updated with the new Hostname.
In the Migration Guide for diffrent hostname Migrations:
1.If the target CA's computer name is different from the source CA's computer name, search the file for the host name of the source CA computer. For each instance of the host name found, ensure that it is the appropriate value for the target environment. Change
the host name, if necessary. Update the CAServerName value.
2.If the host name is located in the .reg file as part of the CA name, such as in the Active value within the Configuration key or the CommonName value within the CAName key, do not change the setting. The CA name must not be changed as part of the
migration. This means the new target CA must have the old CA's name, even if part of that name is the old CA's host name.
Iam not very Familar to CS. What did i forget? Is it preferable trying to restore to the same hostname, as
i see, the CA Authority name will always be the old name of the old server. So i dont have to reissue the
root CA to all the Client, correct ?
From the Migration guide i can only see when the hostname differs to change the CAName in Registry. Is this really enough? A first test to
create a certificate seems to be successfull, but iam bit concerned about the AD stuff.
Yes, the CA Name cannot change. Review Amer Kamal's recent blog entry, as he has covered this subject in detail:
no, you CAN migrate quite with any scenario if the target is 2008+, and in a supported way:


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You're welcome!Cheers,Fax
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Thank you ever so much for this. After 3 hours of trying everything I could think of and getting one **bleep** of a headache, this solution allows me now to go to bed.
Weird thing is, for me (although I can't be 100% sure on this) I think the problem started before I installed the Windows update. I do recall after an hour of problems thinking maybe by installing the little update yellow sheild at the bottom of the screen the problem would go away. But then again, it could have been another even younger update I was installing at that stage!
Here is the Latest Posted Recomended Solution..http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/fr...cessIssue.html--------------------------------------------------------
My XP SP3 :
ZoneAlarm Security Suite version:7.0.473.000
TrueVector version:7.0.473.000
Driver version:7.0.473.000
Anti-virus engine version:3
Anti-virus SDK version:22.214.171.124
Anti-virus signature DAT file version:954827207
Anti-spyware engine version:184.108.40.206
Anti-spyware signature DAT file version:01.200807.4225
AntiSpam version:188.8.131.5203
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Windows Update confirms I installed the offending Windows UPdate, but it doesn't appear in Add Remove Programs even though I clicked on show updates. I got back on the Internet by reducing ZInternet security to medium, But I'm really not comfortable with that. Does anyone have any suggestion as to how I can access the offending Windows Update I would much prefer to remove it, than lessen my Firewall protection as I have.
How to install the updated version?On top of the existing version, or to uninstall the existing version first by add/remove programs?Too bad they didn't give any details.

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How to install the updated version?On top of the existing version, or to uninstall the existing version first by add/remove programs?Too bad they didn't give any details.

 to the Zone Alarm User Forum..
I just did aClean Uninstall: (and everything works OK..(you may have to go into Program Control and check the settings for your other programs..)Try a clean unistall of the program then reinstall the program.....
1.) Download a Current Copy of Zone Alarm Security Suite from
ZA website in the release history section.
2.) Go into ZA Overview/Preferences and Un-Check "Load Zone Alarm on Startup"
3.) Reboot Computer to Remove Zone Alarm drivers from Memory..
4.) Temporarily shut down any other AV/AS Security programs that May Conflict with ZA Install
5..) Click on Start -> Programs -> Zone Labs
RIGHT-click on Uninstall Zone Labs Security, then select Properties.
Under Target you will see the following line (the actual drive may be different on your system):
"C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zauninstexe"
Change it to:
"C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zauninst.exe" /clean (add a space and then the /clean)
Click OK to save the new command line.
Click on Start -> Programs -> Zone Labs -> Uninstall Zone Labs Security
Click OK to run the uninstaller, and OK any security alerts that pop up.
say "Yes when being prompted for the removal of all files and allow TrueVector to shut down.
- Reboot
Using something like this Freeware CCleaner <--- http://www.ccleaner.com/download/bui...wnloading-slim
, will help do the cleanup as well on both the Hard drive and the Registry .
Now You can Re-install the ZA program. Accept the default setting and choose TRUSTED ZONE and not the INTERNET ZONE..follow on screen instructions..Good Luck..--------------------------------------------------------
My XP SP3 :
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TrueVector version:7.0.483.000
Driver version:7.0.483.000
Anti-virus engine version:3
Anti-virus SDK version:22.214.171.124
Anti-virus signature DAT file version:954885423
Anti-spyware engine version:220.127.116.11
Anti-spyware signature DAT file version:01.200807.4235
AntiSpam version:188.8.131.5203
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Will the stated new release of software
upgrade my current release
when my current release of ZA Security Suite does an update or does it require an uninstall of current and then like a new install? No clear
guidelines supplied with moderator's link.
Thank you
Thanks. But really, does CheckPoint expect the non technical customer to do all of this? Why can't they just establish an auto
patch for ZA customers and have it therefore be customer friendly. My grandmother, wife, sister and brothers would all be lost in doing this procedure. PLEASE HELP US for all of those customers who are not techies!!!
Message Edited by Gschnauzer on 07-10-2008 09:04 AM
Thanks for the information.
I uninstalled the offensive Microsoft Security Update last night.
Do I first install the new Zone Alarm Pro, then the Microsoft update?
or do I install the Microsoft then Zone Alarm Pro?
Please advise as I am sure many others will wonder about this same thing.
Thanks in advance.....
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When the capital's weekly listings magazine, Time Out, announced it would be going free later this year, London's free-sheet owners sensed that maybe now, the last remaining stigma associated with "editorial gratis" would finally be removed.
City AM's commercial director, Harry Owen, says: "This debate has gone on for too long now.
"This sense of us and them is no longer relevant. You wouldn't find anyone questioning the value of ITV's audience or content would you? Together with quality news-based titles such as the London Evening Standard and the Metro, we've moved the debate on. Advertisers are more interested in our distribution plans now."
Rufus Olins, chief executive of Newsworks (formerly the Newspaper Marketing Agency) agrees: "The world has changed significantly since the last days of London Lite and The London Newspaper. The rules of what constitutes valued commuter media have been rewritten.
"The Evening Standard's switch from paid-for to free distribution almost three years ago is a fantastic example of how a product can move from one model to the other and be successful. Its circulation went from 250,000 to 600,000 overnight."
Vanessa Clifford, Mindshare head of press, concurs, "Freemium is now an established model," she says. "It stands for quality content that is widely distributed for free. It's highly regarded by an advertiser base focused on the greater nuances of targeting."
Time Out's decision therefore, appears to be, well, timely. Almost 45 years after it launched its flagship London edition for a shilling an issue, the company's assessment of the free-sheet market partially concludes that a boost in circulation, coupled with a hike in advertising rates, will counter the loss of today's £3.25 cover price.
Tim Arthur, editor-in-chief of Time Out UK, says: "We've discussed this for a good few years and spent the past nine months researching it among focus groups.
"It has been tough on the newsstand, but with 32,244 paid subscribers, we're still a profitable magazine. This decision has not been driven by decline, it's been driven by opportunity. It will complement our multiplatform digital presence, which includes free iPad, iPhone and Android apps, as well as the website. It feels like the right time and we've been encouraged by the success of the London frees."
At its peak in the mid-1990s, Time Out sold around 110,000 copies, more than double its most recent ABC audit for the first six months of 2012 (52,198).
Come the autumn, more than half of the 305,000 free copies will be handed out on a Tuesday morning by a team of 200 distributors spread across central London's Underground and mainline rail stations.
Stylist is distributed on a Wednesday, ShortList on a Thursday and Sport goes out on Fridays. Time Out will also be available at cultural venues, such as Tate Modern and in coffee shops.
However, publishers who already play the numbers game know that circulation is only one part of a successful freemium formula.
City AM ramped up its circulation by 30% to around 132,000 copies in May. Some 35,000 additional copies have increased the business newspaper's footprint in Kent, Surrey and parts of south London. The strategy, according to City AM's commercial director Owen, is to make the newspaper more widely available.
He says: "After all, 60% of our web traffic already comes from outside of London. The aim is to develop the brand into the number one global source of City-based news within the next two years.
"Getting the distribution right is half the battle both online and in print. City AM produces unique content that taps into a worldwide need for City knowledge. Brand strength and heritage won't be enough for Time Out. It'll need to find its niche and offer the same trusted editorial assets as we provide.
"It needs good columnists, original and trusted editorial and the ability to build an audience who won't simply be able to find the same information elsewhere online."
City AM's fastest-growing advertiser sector is luxury. In May, car marque Lexus signed a two-year deal to sponsor City AM's annual awards, which Paul Marshall, general manager of marketing and strategy at Lexus called, "an excellent opportunity for Lexus to associate itself with the best individuals and companies in the City."
Owen says: "These advertisers, who may have traditionally looked to the glossies for brand presence, are now focused on buying a more targeted audience. We're achieving this with a mix of live and online opportunities.
"Free media has to show it's reaching the right demographic. It will be interesting to see how much of an appetite there is for Time Out's huge increase in circulation."
Most media agencies have now met with Time Out to discuss its plans. The consensus is that the magazine will adopt a format closer to Shortist and Stylist, which resonates more with a female audience.
In-mag listings will only be topline and new, opening, or last-chance-to-see, and the film section will move closer to the front of the magazine.
"They don't want it to be a straight advertiser choice between Sport and Time Out, for example. So I think it will lean more towards a broader Shortlist-type advertiser base," says Zenith Optimedia head of press Dave Mulrenan.
"That's going to be hard to achieve. ShortList and Stylist have established tie-ups with advertisers that feature cover wraps and other tested ad solutions. For Time Out to expand from a core base of film and alcohol brand advertising, it'll need to introduce first-time, free-sheet advertisers who are attracted by the brand and its new circulation numbers.
"For the first-time advertiser to have a positive experience, Time Out will need a nailed-on concept, with a strong digital package offering."
Time Out's Arthur responds, saying: "Yes, we're refreshing the magazine and making a few structured changes. Online, we already attract more than five million unique views. Time Out won't be a Tube ride-only read. We'll be adopting a more Stylist approach and providing our readers with longer articles, so that they can read the magazine throughout the week, go online and refer to the trusted, informed and intelligent opinion they've always relied on us for."
Both ShortList and Stylist do have the advantage of higher nationwide circulations, with ShortList distributing 529,000 copies and Stylist totalling 431,000 copies.
Stylist, for example is free in London, Brighton, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds, Liverpool and Birmingham, as well as in French Connection stores, airport lounges, city centre offices and gyms during the week.
Time Out will be UK-wide online by next year, according to Arthur. There are versions of Time Out in 37 cities around the world, although all but three are licensed to third parties. Time Out Los Angeles and Time Out Paris will retain their cover price when Time Out London goes free.
Karl Marsden, managing director, ShortList Media says: "Each of our products has that all-important editorial niche, so that both readers and advertisers have a clear understanding of the value proposition.
"When advertisers compare Stylist with Grazia for example, there are clear differentials. The hard work is reflected in our success at the PPA Awards, with Stylist winning consumer media brand of the year and Stylist's Lisa Smosarski being named editor of the year."
ShorLlist.com and Stylist.co.uk can't claim to have an online presence in the same league as Time Out's five million uniques. But ShorList Media has developed its online presence over the past six months and optimising its websites for mobile has resulted in combined audience rises of between 20% and 30%.
Shorlist.com surpassed one million unique users recently, which equates to a 50% increase during the past six months. Time Out meanwhile, launched a free iPad app in July, which is sponsored by MasterCard.
Marsden responds: "We understand that to be competitive we will need to focus on apps as the next stage of our development, but we want to be clear what value an app will bring to our brands. The next generation of consumers won't respond to another 'me too', so we will only go down this road when we have a laser-like focus on what we're intending to achieve."
Time Out's app includes listings, critics' choice picks and editorial features, and is updated daily to ensure that users get the inside track on what's happening in the capital.
With the new kid moving onto the block soon, agencies are keen to see dummy copies before drawing too many conclusions. However, most agree that a boost in circulation alone won't be enough for Time Out to compete in a London free market that has had a huge head start in cultivating its products, advertiser tie-ups and distribution methods.
London's free magazines have enjoyed relatively little competition over the years, as each title sits within its own niche. With the arrival of a broad-base entertainment and listings bible, looking to shake things up on the streets of London, it could all be about to change.
Agencies and advertisers are watching with interest.


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by Diana WellsDiana Wells, author of 100 Flowers and How They Got Their Names now turns her attention to something bigger—our deep-rooted relationship with trees. As she investigates the names and meanings of trees, telling their legends and lore, she reminds us of just how innately bound we are to these protectors of our planet. Since the human race began, we have depended on them for food, shade, shelter and
by Jane GarmeyShow me a person without any prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely no gardener.--Allen Lacy. Idiosyncratic, determined, and occasionally obsessed, gardeners have a lot to say about their outdoor passion. THE WRITER IN THE GARDEN brings together a host of writing gardeners and gardening writers reveling in their quirks, confessing
by Amy StewartAmy Stewart had a simple dream. She yearned for a garden filled with colorful jumbles of vegetables and flowers. After she and her husband finished graduate school, they pulled up their Texas roots and headed west to Santa Cruz, California. With little money in their pockets, they rented a modest seaside bungalow with a small backyard. It wasn't much--a twelve-hundred-square-foot patch of land
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A Walk Through the Forest that Inspired the Hundred Acre WoodLoved "Goodbye Christopher Robin"? Learn more about the real place that inspired the beloved stories. Delve into the home of the world's most beloved bear! The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh explores the magical landscapes where Pooh, Christopher Robin, and their friends live and play. The Hundred Acre Wood—the setting for Winnie-the-Pooh's adventures—was inspired by Ashdown Forest, a wildlife
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by Emily WhaleyIn conversation with William Baldwin. Emily Whaley's garden on Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina, may be the most visited private garden in the country. And no wonder. It is the life's work of a vibrant, sociable, opinionated, determined, forceful woman who has spent the last eighty-five years cultivating whatever life offered her. MRS. WHALEY AND HER CHARLESTON GARDEN captures and
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by Andrea WulfFrom the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, a fascinating look at the men who made Britain teh center of the botanical world. Bringing to life the science and adventure of eighteenth-century plant collecting, The Brother Gardeners is the story of how six men created the modern garden and changed the horticultural world in the process. It is a story of a garden revolution that began in
Thirty Great Gardeners Reveal Why They GardenWhy do you garden? For fun? Work? Food? The reasons to garden are as unique as the gardener.The Roots of My Obsession features thirty essays from the most vital voices in gardening, exploring the myriad motives and impulses that cause a person to become a gardener. For some, it's the quest to achieve a personal vision of ultimate beauty; for others, it's a mission to heal the earth, or to grow a
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St Helena is urging intrepid investors to act now
The South Atlantic island of St Helena is urging the private sector to invest now to take advantage of significant economic opportunities that have arisen in light of the recent decision to grant the Island an airport. Scheduled to be operational by late 2015, this will be the first airport for the British Overseas Territory, lying 1,700 miles north-west of Cape Town.
With just three years and 10 months until the airport opens the St Helena Government is actively encouraging investors to 'get in early' to maintain exclusivity, capitalise on the projected high-end tourism demand and reap an attractive return on their investment.
Mike Dean, St Helena's Tourism Development Executive, commented: "The Island is poised to undergo an economic transformation. Investors should act now. This is a unique time for companies and entrepreneurs to seize advantage of this economic opportunity and be ready when the island welcomes the first plane."
Tourism has long been identified as the key driver for economic growth on the island, and as such, opportunities for this sector include hotels, restaurants, retail and visitor experiences. Lucrative economic opportunities have also been identified in the significantly under-developed fishing industry (currently only waters within 12-15 miles of St Helena are fished), agriculture and coffee – St Helena is renowned for its much-sought after coffee.
"Inextricably linked with Napoleon with dramatic landscapes and extraordinary flora and fauna, St Helena offers a unique location for investors both in tourism and wider sectors. Attracting new investors will act as a catalyst for growing visitor business on the island over the next 10 years and beyond" added Mr Dean.
Due to its unique, remote situation (currently only accessible by sea) and to protect the outstanding natural beauty of the Island, St Helena has adopted a best practice approach and has looked carefully at how other government have handled tourism growth in a sustainable manner. A cornerstone of St Helena Government's economic strategy is, therefore, to carefully balance supply and demand, with the objective that tourist numbers will be limited (the island currently attracts around 1,500 tourists each year). "Capping visitor numbers will ensure that the market is protected as a high-end destination and will not become saturated. As such, the risk profile offered to early investors is very different – their risk is reduced and their investment is offered a higher level of protection. They will also benefit from higher levels of marketing early on" added Mr Dean.
It is anticipated that tourism of this level will contribute £31.5m to the island's economy within ten years, based on current demand and research carried out by the UK Government's Department for International Development.
Since the positive access announcement in November 2011, construction of the airport is already yielding multiple commercial opportunities too for UK companies, including Sheffield-based Geo Robson & Co (Conveyors) who secured a contract to make a baggage reclaim carousel for St Helena's new airport.
A public consultation on the Island's proposed Economic Plan (EDP) has just been carried out by the St Helena Government. A robust economic model, it outlines on a practical level how 'Saints' (as islanders are fondly referred to) and the private sector can capitalise on the new airport and carve out a sustainable future. The plan projects that over the next decade at least 30 new businesses will start, creating an additional 500-700 jobs on the Island.
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The Star Spangled Classic has been canceled for this year due to expected thunderstorms.
Heavy rain is expected Thursday and Friday, with chances of rain dwindling but still present throughout the weekend, according to the National Weather Service website.
The event is characterized as Athens' signature Independence Day event by Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services. It is coordinated by the unified government, but funded through private sponsors. Robin Stevens, Leisure Services' community outreach coordinator, said that money will roll over to 2014.
"That's our signature event, so it's just regrettable," she said of the cancelation. "We look forward to bringing the event back for 2014 and we'll be keeping our fingers crossed for good weather."
Leisure Services has set Friday as a rain date, but officials said the extended forecast prevents that rescheduling.
Oconee County's Independence Day celebration is still scheduled to go on as planned for Thursday, 6:30 p.m., at Veterans Park, 3500A Hog Mountain Road in Watkinsville, according to its inclement weather hotline. Fireworks are planned for 9:30 p.m. It has a planned rain date of Saturday. For updates on the Oconee County event, call its inclement weather hotline at (706) 769-2965.


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In a press conference Nov. 19, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the city of Chicago will file a "Notice of Intent" to sue U.S. Steel...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that funds are available to support community-based partnerships to reduce toxic risks in local communities. The agency will award about $2.7 million in cooperative agreements in two levels through the Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) program.
Programs that protect drinking water supplies through pollution prevention are among the EPA-cited examples for the CARE program. Other examples of EPA voluntary programs that reduce exposure to toxins and create safer communities include those that: reduce emissions from diesel engines; reduce waste from toxic chemical use; reduce emissions from small business operations while reducing costs; and improve the indoor environment in schools.
Level I cooperative agreements will help establish community-based partnerships and set priorities for reducing toxic risks in a community. EPA anticipates awarding eight to 10 cooperative agreements under Level I, ranging from $75,000 to $100,000.
Level II cooperative agreements are for communities that already have a broad-based collaborative partnership, have identified risk reduction priorities and are ready to implement risk reduction strategies. EPA expects to award six to eight cooperative agreements, ranging from $150,000 to $300,000.
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Aging civil infrastructural facilities like long-span bridges, super-tall buildings, and large-scale space structures that form the life of a country's economy are facing a severe crisis in some countries. Long service lives, inadequate designs, and increasing extreme loads are responsible for the current state of affairs. Thus, knowledge about the in-service condition of the structures is one of the most essential parts required for the engineering community. This opens a wide field for structural health monitoring (SHM) systems which are set up to assure the safe operation of structures requiring linking sensors with computational tools able to interpret sensor data in terms of structural performance. Although intensive development continues on innovative sensor systems, there is still considerable uncertainty in deciding structural behavior since there are many factors in abundant measured data from the SHM system that may influence the health assessment of a structure. The most appropriate and efficient way to alleviate this multiple input problem is by the statistical and probabilistic approach including data normalization, feature extraction, statistical modeling, risk management, and so forth.
Therefore, in the light of the these considerations, we invite investigators to contribute original research papers as well as review papers for this special issue that aim at becoming an international forum for researchers and practitioners to summarize the most recent advances, progress, and ideas in the field of the statistical and probabilistic approach and its application in structure rating and risk assessment; more specifically, the focus will be on parametric tests, correlation analysis, regression analysis, cluster analysis, principal component analysis, factor analysis, correlation analysis, decision tree analysis, and Bayesian, rough set, and support vector machines, and so forth. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
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