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No coat/No door, I am making this one last awhile!
Booze industry experts have issued a chilling warning that the British pint could hit £4 a pop - a price hike provoked by crap weather which has forced up the price of hops. According to a sobering Guardian report, the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) estimates the average jar at £2.50 for lager, and £2.20 for bitter. …
Sobs quietly into his last pint of reasonably priced beer
No coat/No door, I am making this one last awhile!
IT in the UK is doomed!!
As for "higher aluminium, cereal and crude oil (prices)" worryes me a little. What the hell are they putting in there beer.
Round where i come from, a decent pint of the local brew will cost you around £1.80 or so, i can't see it hitting £4..ever
If this happens, I'm switching to turps...
How many Euro is that per litre?
I long ago decided to remove myself from the system when it came to life's little pleasures. I quite happily brew my own beer (c 20/30p a pint), wine (c 2quid a bottle), and spirits (c 1.50 a litre).
Up yours gord !
Mine's four pints please, landlord.
I was only 4 at the time, but back in '79, didn't we shift mostly 3% ish beers,
now it's all 5.5 percenters (ok a nod toward "newer" low alc beers)
So are we shifting the same net amount of booze - i.e. no change?
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! my life is ruined, this means pubs are going to be empty, I also believe that every man woman and england will pay top dollar to find out who those doomongers are, what will life be like in britain now, just imagine the alcoholics that havent seen the light of day properly for 20years *shakes head* actually I'm not goin think about it.
This is shocking news, however it is no excuse for coining the word "doomonger", which simply does not exist*
Drinking more will increase demand, which may push prices down? I feel it is our duty.
* - in my lexicon.
...why their beers all taste like shite:
"The company has fingered higher aluminium, cereal and crude oil costs as the cause"
Foster's is beer?
I know its fithy lager that is referred to, not real ale, but since when was crude oil used in brewing?
This sort of news is most unwelcome. It's like saying work to us members of the drinking classes. I almost choked on my pint.
"The company has fingered higher aluminium, cereal and crude oil costs as the cause, the Guardian explains"
There's crude oil in my beer???
Best look the bottle of turps out the garage and start claiming disability allowance in accordance with new government directives!!
but its actually pretty heavy =/
no surprise really... with the cost of petrol at over a quid at even the cheapest stations, we might as well get a butt raping with other essentials, im just waiting for the cost of air to go up..
why the hell would anyone want to live in this god awful hole!
please, one express ticket out of here!
Just how much of your average pint is hops? Sounds like an excuse for increased brewery profits to me.
(And why can't I post with "60% ???" as the title?)
"The company has fingered higher aluminium, cereal and crude oil costs as the cause."
How much crude oil does my pint contain?!?
And the IT angle here would be...ah, yeah, The BOFH of course, who will now be forced to supplement his income in more nefarious ways to pay for his "lunch".
Looking forward to this new plot twist...
As the icon says........where is the IT angle?
Given that hops are only a single ingredient in some beer, exactly how much have they rose to force a 60% rise in the final product ?!? Sounds like scaremongering (or maybe profiteering) to me.
A pair of quadruple whiskies and another pair of pints........
OK smartarse. Where did you get a pint of reasonably-priced beer in the UK? Go on, tell us.
Still look at it this way. You'll be able to fly cattle-class to Prague, stay the weekend, get thoroughly wankered, fly back and still save money. The best part is that your flight will contribute to Global warming*, pushing up the price of beer in the UK and next time you do it, you'll save *even more money*.
The Bomber jacket with the Pilsner Urquell logo please.
*Unless, of course, it's nothing to do with Global warming at all and it's just making an appearance as the usual trendy cop-out, in which case this won't work. Boooo.
looks like it's time to start smoking dope again.
However I mostly only drink bottles and cans at home with my mates, drinking out is already too expensive. £35 will get enough booze for 3 of you to get happily sloshed all weekend at home.
With many a good deal being closed in the pub over a pint or ten and those pints being claimed back as expenses and those expenses claimed back from the client via increased costs, could we be seeing compound inflation (have I coined a new phrase?) on the way?
The quantity of hops per pint is very small. To brew 4 gallons at home, one would require around £3 worth of hops. This equates to approximately 10p of hops per pint. Even if the price of hops doubled, it would make little impact to what we spend at the bar, bearing in mind breweries are buying a little more than 100g at a time.
£4 per pint: That will be about €9.85 per litre, or €3.28 per 33cL glass
"How much crude oil does my pint contain?!?"
none, however the heating of the mash probably uses oil in some way or other, delivery trucks all use fuel which is based on crude oil so the delivery costs go up (which has tobe taken into account in the price) etc etc.
aluminium - cans and the barrels. I assume at some point they make new barrels.
grain - too much is beimng diverted for biofuels, see the pasts protests in italy the other month over Durum wheat being too expensive.
to the "where's the it angle" brigade it's in bootnotes so really it should be "where's the paris hilton angle".
I like my ale as much as the next man, but the good old Magners has been a fave for me lately. Hopefully the Apple Orchards we see in the luverly Irish ads are still ok ?
"The company has fingered higher aluminium, cereal and crude oil costs as the cause."
Glad I don't drink....crude oil and Rice Krispies beer? bad enough, but think of the company bods having fingered your aluminium cans first!
I'll open with £4 for a pint of Staropramen at the Duke's Head in Putney.
I was literally gasting flabber.
Can anyone trump this? Criteria is a pint of normal bitter or lager (none of that fancy cherry flavoured stuff) and purchased from a pub, not a nightclub.
To get a good Irish or English pint over here already cost anywhere from $5.50 to $7.00 so this is not to much of a shock for us...your just catching up to the rest of the world. On the other hand if your over here you can always have domestic US beer...errr....
If no-one here sees the IT angle in this, I want to know where they work. Tis a sad day when the price of forgetting a hard days 'work' will get little change from £20.
To be honest for you, I feel sorry for the curry house.
£4.40 for a pint of Peroni in the Waterside.
Brewing your own starts to look like the way to go. Mind you. I live in Bavaria, where the 1/2l lager is still under 1€.
I think we need a campaign to promote the production of biobeers - they're cheaper (due to lower taxation) and better for the environment too (the exhaust fumes aren't as toxic, unless you combine it with a curry).
Can you drink LPG?
Once again the universe takes it upon itself to dump on me from a great height.
I've been working in Oslo for the past nine months and finally come to terms with the £5 pint (plus or minus 50p say for local Ringnes chemical pish, gets up to around £7 or more for owt decent, especially down Aker Brygge).
I'm finally leaving this Friday to return to the UK, and was looking forward to getting change from a fiver for 2 pints. And then this!
thanks to the smoking ban. they will be closing their doors quicker than local post offices soon.
At least with these you won't find you've mistakenly identified a hot blonde lady with a 38DD chest, who is actually a 6'4" metal-head rocker with a 54" barrel chest.
Then again, if you're drinking halves or shandies that's probably your thing.
I'll be sticking with the Hoegaarden, Franziskaner, Schneider Weisse, Ayinger, Paulaner, Erdinger, Schoefferhoffer, Maisells Weisse, Etalon Weissbier and (to a lesser extent) Grolsch Weizen then -- nary a hop in sight, so hopefully no price hike! Hurray for wheat beer!
Not that the fuckers are particularly cheap to begin with though...
Ok bottled beer (half litre, just under a pint) from the off-license: from 60 cents ('bout 40p).
Mid-range pub in the west (with table service), ca €3 (2 quid).
The german laws on beer purity means there's no aluminium, cereal or crude oil either ;-)
Sounds like the typical rip-off britain scenario - pay the highest prices for the lowest quality. I'm think sometimes that the europhobia in the British establishment is due to the fact, that if the majority of people in the UK were to compare their quality of life with their european neighbours, there'd be an instant uprising...
"On the other hand if your over here you can always have domestic US beer...errr...."
Sam Adams Oktoberfest? Yum!
numbers as comment titles not allowed, for some reason...
Sorry bluesxman, Erdinger uses hops (I just checked the label of the bottle I am drinking), and I suspect some of the others if not all of them use hops too...
How does brewing your own save you? Its hops that are going up, and I presume you use these to brew your beer?
Also, I am fairly sure brewing your own spirits is illegal in the UK.
Oh yeah, right in the West End. I was paying £3.50 for a pint in some pubs in central London six years ago so it's hardly a surprise. 5% lager has gone over £3 in most city pubs in the North now (the range in Leeds is downright bizarre sometimes: something like Carlsberg Export will be £2.60 in one pub and £3.05 in the next. It has something to do with the number of flashing lights I think). We'll keep on paying it though, don't you worry.
Brewing's permitted. Selling/distilling's not. Means you can only get up to 15% (if lucky) on your own wine.


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Merger, Acquisition, and International Strategies
Assignment 4: Merger, Acquisition, and International Strategies
Due Week 8 and worth 300 points
Choose two (2) public corporations in an industry with which you are familiar – one (1) that has acquired another company and operates internationally and one (1) that does not have a history of mergers and acquisitions and operates solely within the U.S. Research each company on its own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University's online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.
Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:
- For the corporation that has acquired another company, merged with another company, or been acquired by another company, evaluate the strategy that led to the merger or acquisition to determine whether or not this merger or acquisition was a wise choice. Justify your opinion.
- For the corporation that has not been involved in any mergers or acquisitions, identify one (1) company that would be a profitable candidate for the corporation to acquire or merge with and explain why this company would be a profitable target.
- For the corporation that operates internationally, briefly evaluate its international business-level strategy and international corporate-level strategy and make recommendations for improvement.
- For the corporation that does not operate internationally, propose one business-level strategy and one corporate-level strategy that you would suggest the corporation consider. Justify your proposals.
- Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not quality as academic resources.
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I confess to having not used the descriptor "smarty pants" since sometime before I turned 11, but I was reminded of it the other day in a Wall Street Journal article on the potential nomination of economist, Larry Summers, to the Chairmanship of the Federal Reserve.
In describing Mr. Summers' past accomplishments and credentials for a potential Fed nomination, the article also pointed out some of the negatives swirling around him:
"But to his detractors—of which there are also plenty—he is an overbearing smarty pants who could be a bull in the collegial Fed china shop."
"He's not a very self-aware person," said Cathy O'Neil, a mathematician who worked with Mr. Summers at hedge fund D.E. Shaw during the Bush administration. "He's incredibly aggressively competitive, in a kind of…high-school debate champion kind of way."
Most of us have very little real understanding of how our behaviors impact others. Some of us resemble Ms. O'Neil's description of Mr. Summers as not very self-aware.
We cruise through our days secure in our view of our importance and convinced that our presence lights up every room, enlightens our colleagues and brings joy and prosperity to our teams and organization.
Well, perhaps the enlightenment we create isn't so great or the joy quite as profound as we imagine.
By all career measures, Mr. Summers has the gifts and juice to back up his alleged style. However, for many of us, we might just be our own worst enemies in fighting career advancement. Don't let the "Smarty Pants" persona be the issue that holds you back from reaching the next level.
5 Success Tips–Just in Case You Might be the Office Smartypants:
1. Shut-Up for a Day. While it may require superhuman effort, spend a day of meetings and interactions with your mouth clamped shut. Resist the urge to show everyone the errors of their ways and the flaws in their logic or facts.
2. Embrace the Silence in Your Mind. While much like the reaction of the people who had never experienced darkness nor viewed the stars in Asimov's classic sci-fi story, Nightfall, you might be frightened of the sudden noises you'll hear in your brain during your day of semi-silence. These are the unique voices, ideas and thoughts of your co-workers. Now, all you need to do is to make sense of these foreign invasions to your sacred space.
3. If You Must Talk, Ask Clarifying Questions. While you might be greeted with stunned silence from your team members and co-workers, they'll eventually catch on to the fact that you're asking a question, and you might just be surprised with the answer.
4. If You're the Boss, Practice Framing Issues Neutrally. The boss's opinion is a sledgehammer that biases the team and puts a lid on creativity. Instead of describing the conclusion, highlight the issue without expressing an opinion and see where your team members take it. If needed, encourage them to frame it both positively and negatively and develop alternative solutions.
5. Repeat the Above Every Day For the Rest of Your Career/Life.
The Bottom-Line for Now:
I love smart people who have the self-awareness and the self-confidence to help everyone around them grow a bit smarter. These people view every situation as an opportunity to learn and perhaps to teach, but not to debate. It's time to shed the overbearing smarty pants approach.
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I think it's become pretty obvious what Jeff Zucker's plan for CNN is. More it even more left that it can compete with MSNBC. The so called 'straight news' and 'moderate image' of CNN was shattered back in the 2008 when they openly campaigned for Obama. Today we've seen on CNN a so called 'professor' declaring that Chris Dorner was a 'superhero' and that his killing spree was 'exciting.' Now CNN has declared Marco Rubio's gulp of water during the GOP response to the SOTU last night a 'Career Ender.'
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Despite the weaker summer selling season, most electronics distributors should generate sequential sales and earnings growth in the third quarter compared with the previous quarter. In years past, third-quarter results were usually slightly down compared with the second quarter due to the normal summer slowdown.
This year, however, the cyclical upturn in the semiconductor industry has more than offset the usual summer slowdown. After more than three years of oversupply in the marketplace, which caused significant price and margin erosion, the trend has reversed and product is now on allocation. Order lead times have stretched out, and pricing and margins have improved.
By geography, the domestic market continues to drive industry growth. The strength of the U.S. telecommunications, networking, and industrial-automation end markets are driving the demand for components. Combining this stronger demand with stable pricing has resulted in stronger revenue growth and operating leverage.
In Asia, sales growth is also increasing demand as these economies emerge from recession. Although the European market remains weak, it does not appear to be getting any worse. The summer slow-down is always most evident in Europe, which makes it difficult to judge current market conditions.
By product category, accelerating sales growth in electronic components has been partially offset by decelerating sales growth in computer systems. Part of this phenomenon may be due to concerns associated with Y2K. For example, OEMs may be double-ordering electronic components to build a safety stock of inventory going into 2000.
On the other hand, corporations may be postponing new orders for computer systems because they may not want to disrupt their Y2K-compliant systems. These trends could continue into the fourth quarter and then reverse in the first quarter of 2000, when OEMs will need to bleed off excess component inventory and corporations reaccelerate buying of computer systems.
For the four largest publicly held distributors, there may be a slight divergence in third-quarter results. Arrow Electronics Inc., Kent Electronics Corp., and Pioneer-Standard Electronics Inc. should generate sequential sales and earnings improvement driven by strong North American component sales. Arrow's results will be further enhanced by synergies created by integrating the acquisitions of Richey and Bell, but offset somewhat by weakness in the European components business and sluggish computer-system sales.
As for Pioneer, despite slower industry-wide computer system sales, it is benefiting from a rebound in the Compaq/DEC product line. Additionally, it has no direct exposure to the sluggish European market. Furthermore, Kent is benefiting from economies of scale at its K*Tec division. Now that it has reached critical mass, margins are improving.
Avnet may show a sequential decline in sales and earnings because of the divestiture of Allied Electronics. Additionally, its European sales continue to be weak. However, looking into calendar year 2000, Avnet should benefit from synergies created by integrating the acquisitions of Marshall, SEI, and SEI Macro.


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Iran couldn't take the heat. Temperatures of over 50 C in Iran have shut the Islamic Republic down. For two days, all civil servants and public workers have gotten an unexpected holiday.
Government in Iran is big. With its ranks swelling at 2.2 million full time employees, Iran's Uncle Sam stands as the biggest employer. The official reason as released by the state was "unprecedented heat," though it is assumed that the real motive was to save electricity. Though Iran is one of the biggest exporters of crude oil, it severely lacks domestic refining capabilities, making its domestic production of electricity expensive. Citizens are also subject to gasoline rationing.
The Iranian government has not been attempting to hide its electricity shortage, however. "People should help by consuming electricity more considerately," said Majid Namjoo, energy minister in the Islamic Republic.
The unexpected vacation lasted through Sunday and Monday the 12th of July, giving Iran a three day weekend.
Economists advocating reform have decried the Iranian government's neglect of infrastructure projects and claimed that continued neglect would damage power generation.
Though the private sector was not officially connected to the shutdown, some companies did in fact tell their workers not to come in, since their contracts are connected with the government. "We need to be in constant touch with the state-owned organization which has a contract with us," said one businessman, "but suddenly the government shuts down two working days after a public holiday which means the whole week is gone, while our contract specifically mentions fines for every single day of delay."
To his credit, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, instead of concentrating on infrastructure development, has concentrated on transferring oil revenue to the poor. In response, Iran's ability to produce electricity has deteriorated, though its inflation rate has slowed to single digits for the first time in over 20 years.
One reason for a slowing in the inflation rate could also be simple economic sluggishness, in that if people stop spending money, profits go down and inflation rates drop accordingly. In fact, in the last month, 1 in 8 checks reportedly bounced.
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This morning the first trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man leaked online, in a fairly high-quality bootleg format. Sony Pictures moved quickly to eradicate it from the internet, and that's fine, since they're sure to release an official version soon. Though it vanished quickly, the trailer is now back online in high-resolution and through it we've learned a few things about the nature of this worrisome reboot.
For instance, we now know that all those really awful sounding Spider-Man trailer descriptions being pedaled as scoops around the internet were completely wrong. The teaser bears no resemblance to those reports, they were false. That's actually good news, since most of those made this sound like some sort of rehash of all the things we've already seen in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man movies, and that never made sense.
We also now have a feel for Sony's new take on the character. Guess what? They're trying to turn Spider-Man into Batman. The tone of the trailer is intentionally dark and brooding, the music is ominous, there's none of the joy found in Raimi's movies, anywhere in this. Andrew Garfield's Peter Parker never smiles, instead he broods spends a lot of time staring at his own reflection as if he's constantly wondering "what's it all about?" This Spidey seems to have taken the whole "great responsibility" thing a little too seriously. Even though he's supposed to be a teenager in high-school, this Peter looks like he's already been crushed by the weight of the world. He's less of a nerd than he is an emo kid. Everything about the trailer screams Dark Knight or, worse, Twilight (minus the romance). The Amazing Spider-Man could easily be set in Seattle and have vampires in it, Peter even has an Edward Cullen haircut.
That's not to say it's all bad. Look, Spider-Man isn't Batman, and not every superhero needs to be dark and brooding. I wish they weren't going this route with the webhead, but since they are, it seems like they're trying to go about it in the right way. As a dark and brooding trailer this one sort of works. Andrew Garfield doesn't look bad as Peter Parker, though it should be noted that the 28-year-old actor looks every bit like someone in his twenties, and never for even a second in this trailer actually looks like a high school kid. They really should have cast younger. But if you can put that aside, it's easy to buy him as Peter Parker.
More than that, they make it clear that they're trying to bring something new to not just the tone of the character, but the action around him too. The trailer ends with this gimmicky, Spidey-cam sequence in which Spider-Man goes jumping, running, and swinging through the city but we only see it as if we're him, the screen showing us the view out through his eyeballs. It doesn't really work at all on the small screen of a computer, when his feet dangle at the bottom of the frame it looks ridiculous, but it could be really cool in a big screen, theatrical format. It might even be one of those rare, legitimately cool uses of 3D, done right. I don't know if that particular gimmick will work, but odds are it won't be the only new thing they try in this movie, and it's nice to know that they are trying.
The main thing here is that if Sony was going to reboot Spider-Man, then they'd damn well better be trying something completely different with it. While director Marc Webb isn't jumping the franchise completely off the rails, the first Amazing Spider-Man trailer makes it clear that, for better or worse, this movie is different from Raimi's work.
Stick around, with the San Diego Comic Con kicking off this week, odds are Sony will release the entire Amazing Spider-Man in high-res in the next few days. We'll be there at the convention to bring you coverage, and we'll have the official, high-res version of the trailer right here on Cinema Blend as soon as it's available.
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It's time to point out to the right-wing ideologues in Congress that believing strongly in their cause doesn't make up for being stupid.
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Rock Salt
It happens almost every year and yet it always seems to take the UK by surprise. An overnight build up of snow and ice can have a paralysing effect on our infrastructure, making the smallest of journeys feel like an adventure to the North Pole! This is why it is important to be prepared with a stockpile of rock salt.


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Net::DBus::Binding::Message::Error - a message encoding a method call error
use Net::DBus::Binding::Message::Error; my $error = Net::DBus::Binding::Message::Error->new( replyto => $method_call, name => "org.example.myobject.FooException", description => "Unable to do Foo when updating bar"); $connection->send($error);
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"Net::DBus::Binding::"namespace being stable across releases.
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"name"parameter is the formal name of the error condition, while the
"description"is a short piece of text giving more specific information on the error.:
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How many times have you had a dream that was just too real?
Last night, my Gwennie and I had a slumber party in my bedroom. We made drizzled party popcorn, I painted her tiny fingernails the perfect shade of hot pink and her little toes too. I brushed her long, beautiful hair and marveled that I used to have that hair too. We watched Flushed Away and fell asleep holding hands and snuggled into the feather bed. It was an evening of magical perfection.
I dreamt that we were at a Wal-Mart. The whole family was unloading from the car at the front sidewalk/sliding doors and a valet was parking the car for us (bear with me, it was a dream). Gwen was standing at the sliding doors waiting for us when we were distracted by Kate falling out of the car. We momentarily turned to pick Kate up from the sidewalk and my last vision of Gwen was composed of her hot pink down jacket and long hair slightly lifting in the wind as she stood waiting for us. The doors were sliding open behind her.
Seconds later I turned again to say that we were all set to go inside. I looked to the spot were Gwen had just been standing but she was gone. I did that slightly panicked mommy spin where you contort to look behind and next to your body while growing more frantic. Was she at my legs waiting? Had she moved closer and I didn't realize? No, she wasn't with me. I looked to the left and then to the right and saw only strangers moving purposely across the sidewalk, oblivious to my rising fear.
In my mind's eye, I saw her standing before the sliding door as it opened behind her and realized that she probably just moved inside the doors to wait for us. David and I went inside expecting to see that little hot pink coat and perhaps scold her for leaving our sight. She wasn't there. We moved into the store further and frantically scanned the crowds for her hot pink coat. Adrenalin began coursing through my body and I grew lightheaded as I began shouting her name, "Gwen! GWENDOLYN!" David was doing the same thing at the other end of the store. We kept looking at each other, hoping that the other had spotted Gwen or heard her little voice calling in response. Each glance was met with disappointment and increasing panic.
The store announced a Code Adam and locked the doors while we all searched for our daughter. The police were suddenly there and the people who had been locked in with us gawked in nosey horror. One woman shifted on her feet, rolled her eyes and sighed about the inconvenience of being locked in Wal-Mart while the police searched for my missing daughter.
I sat at a table and realized that as I sat, someone was whisking my little girl away from us. I painfully recalled all that I had learned about criminal patterns and behavior when I earned my degree in Criminology. I never expected those lessons to apply to me. I never expected to be sitting somewhere helplessly realizing that the longer my girl was gone, the likelihood of her return dwindled. I desperately tried to push away the thoughts of rape and homicide, but couldn't. I began screaming her name. In my dream, I realized that I would probably never see her alive again. David tried to hold my arms and the police officers attempted to calm me down but I fought them and began to run through the dream Wal-Mart searching for Gwen…
I woke up with a gasp, covered in a thin film of sweat and saw my beautiful girl peacefully sleeping next to me in her purple Tinkerbell nightgown. Her freshly painted hot pink fingernails were inches from my face and she held Bun-Bun in the crook of her left arm. Slowly, my breathing returned to normal and I wiped the tears from my face. I rolled over and hugged my Cookie tightly, thanking God that I was able to wake up from that nightmare.
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There have been a lot of talk about what characters will show up in Marvel's upcoming "Avengers" movie (due out in 2012, mark your calenders, kids!), so here's the skinny: according to Kevin Feige, who should know since he's Marvel Studios' main guy, the Avengers line-up will consist of five characters — Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, The Hulk, and Nick Fury. Well, he doesn't come right out and say Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man, but that seems like a given. He does mention The Hulk and Nick Fury by name, though.
"My only concern is that when we launch a franchise.. whichever characters franchise that may be, it should stand on its own two feet. With Iron Man being the first one out of the gate, thank goodness thats what happend. Everyone loved it. Its our job to do the same with Thor and Captain America two years from now, so by the time The Avengers comes in 2012 its not just a team super hero movie with a bunch of characters with powers, its three people, four including Hulk , five including Nick Fury-who you have seen before in other movies, coming together for the very first time."
Feige also confirms that they are trying to get Ed Norton back as Bruce Banner aka The Hulk, but doesn't know if it'll happen. I'm probably the only guy on the web who didn't think Norton's turn as Banner was anything special; then again, I also didn't care very much for Louis Leterrier's remake of "Hulk", so there you have it.
Feige also elaborated on the Thor that will be showing up in Kenneth Branagh's movie:
"We're doing the Stan Lee/Jack Kirby/Walt Simonson/J Michael Straczynski Thor. We're not doing the blow the dust of the old Norse book in your library Thor. And in the Thor of the Marvel universe there's a race called The Asgardians, and we're linked through this tree of life that we're unaware of. Its real science, but we don't know about it yet. The Thor movie is about teaching people that."
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Updated on Wednesday, November 8, 2017: Depending on where you live, it's probably already pretty cold outside and some new winter running gear could really come in handy. Maybe some new shoes as well. Good news is that if you're a fan of Saucony then this Thanksgiving weekend will be a good time to pick up some a new hoody, sports top, shoes, hat, gloves, and other clothes and accessories to keep you warm until summer rolls back around.
While it's still too early to know for the specifics of Saucony's Black Friday 2017 sale, we do expect them to bring back a similar deal to what we saw last year and the year before that: A coupon for 30% off on all sale shoes and apparel. Of course as soon as we are able to confirm the details (likely in the days leading up to Thanksgiving), we will post evertyhing you'll need to know right here on Blacker Friday. Check back soon!
Until then, be sure to take a look at Saucony's outlet page where you'll already be able to find some pretty good pre-Thanksgiving Day deals. You can also take a moment to signup to their email newsletter where all new signups get 20% off their first Saucony apparel purchase. All orders will qualify for free shipping and free return shipping. Happy bargain hunting!
Find any good deals on new Saucony shoes or athletic gear this holiday season at one of their authorized retailers? Then let us know what you found and how much you saved in the comment section below!
Updated November 25, 2016: Thanksgiving is now officially behind us and Black Friday doorbuster deals have begun. And that means that today is the day to find sales on top of sales — Including now at Saucony on many of their best selling shoes!
Head on over to saucony.com to get an extra 30% off sale shoes when you use coupon code CHEERS at checkout. You'll also get free shipping and qualify for free extended returns through January 31, 2017. Sale ends at 11:59 PM EST on Sunday, November 27, 2016, while supplies last.
Get ready, set, go! Saucony just released its 2015 Black Friday deals for the Thanksgiving weekend!
Starting today, Thursday November 26th, you'll save on hoodies, sports top, shoes, hat, gloves, and other clothes and accessories to keep you warm until summer rolls back around. All sale items are at 30% off with coupon code SALE30. This is an online only promotion at Saucony.com so don't expect to see it at any of their retail stores.
You'll have up through Cyber Monday, November 30, 2015 to 11:59 pm EST to take advantage of this sale but just remember that some of their most popular items/sizes may sell out before then. New markdowns were just added this week so there is a wide variety of choices here, just like the men's Triumph ISO running shoes reduced to $90 from $150 (now also eligible for 30% off discount from the already reduced price). Also, free standard shipping and returns (if you need it) are being offered on all U.S. orders which makes this deal even sweeter! 🙂 Enjoy!
All of us are super excited about the upcoming Thanksgiving season as we have many things to be thankful for (if we realize it or not). Among them is Black Friday sale at Saucony this year 🙂 . This Black Friday you can save 25% off on Saucony's apparel, Original shoes collection and all last chance (clearance) merchandise. All you need to do is to use promo code TURKEY25 at a checkout and you'll 25% off on all qualifying items in your shopping cart. This offer is valid until November 30, 2014, 11:59 pm EST so no need to sweat during the Black Friday day in order to get what you desire from Saucony.
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First Person Perspective of the Shrek Adventure at the Fair [VIDEO]
One of my kid's favorite attractions at the Central Washington State Fair was an obstacle course titled Shrek Adventure. My 4 year old was just under the height limit to go on without an adult. So I whipped out my camera and started filming so you can see what it looks like from their perspective when they go on this attraction.
This video may drag a bit because it's in real time. After the video I've sped it up just for fun. Enjoy!
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Oppo caused quite the stir in the smartphone market back in December, when it became the second company in the world to unveil a Full HD handheld, but then they decided for some reason, to skip past CES 2013, basically slipping off our radar.
But now the Find 5 is back where it belongs – in news headlines – having gotten an official release date in China. The 5-incher is set to start shipping on January 29, which is just two short weeks away.
Before then, Chinese tech lovers can of course get their pre-orders in on Oppo's official website, ensuring their spots in front of the line. As far as pricing goes, the phone starts at 2,998 yuan ($485) with 16 GB of on-board memory.
The 32 GB version is not yet up for pre-order and doesn't have an official price tag attached, so it might be a while until seeing that released.
While the European and North American ETAs are themselves kept secret, rumor has it that Oppo will begin taking pre-orders as soon as next month. We don't know about you, but we're awfully excited about the Find 5, so we'll be keeping an eye out for the release details outside Asia.
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Professor Paul Woodruff once told his interviewer, Bill Moyers: "I came back from Vietnam thinking that I really shouldn't do anything that didn't matter to people's lives. It was hard for me to figure out how to pursue a scholarly life in the way that I'd been taught and take on issues that really matter to people."
But take on those issues he did, and broaden the minds of thousands of Texans he has. For this ethic and for his tireless service to one of Texas' most important institutions, I nominate my friend and colleague Paul Woodruff for Dallas Morning News Texan of the Year.
Paul is far from a native Texan and took a circuitous route to get here: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Oxford and Vietnam. With his ever-present bow tie, neither does he fit the Lone Star stereotype. But when he arrived in Austin in 1973 to join the University of Texas philosophy faculty, his life and that of the university became inseparably linked, each acting on the other at a profound level.
Paul threw himself into scholarship, teaching and service to the university. A classicist specializing in Plato, Thucydides and Socrates, he made a huge impact on the university and state as director of UT's venerable Plan II honors program, building a program that offered an Ivy League-quality education to thousands of Texans.
When I became president of the university in 2006, the university had just gone through a two-year, citizen-led strategic planning process known as the Commission of 125, and one of its central recommendations was a renewed focus on excellence in undergraduate education. I knew that one of the most powerful things I could do would be to appoint Paul the first dean of undergraduate studies. His spirit of service to the institution and his world-renowned intellect made him the natural choice to chart a new path for undergraduates in need of greater direction. We followed this appointment with the creation of the School of Undergraduate Studies, which Paul is still leading through its formative years.
All the while, he has been writing books that have brought prestige to the university and the state of Texas by our association with him — books like Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue, which, among other things, examined questions raised by Sept. 11, and First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea. In his 2008 book, The Necessity of Theater: The Art of Watching and Being Watched, he argues that our need for theater is hard-wired, and he simultaneously broadens the definition of theater from merely stage dramas to sports arenas, wedding ceremonies and even the barista who prepares your morning coffee with particular flair "to the admiring gaze of her customers." His most recent book, The Ajax Dilemma, explores the challenge of how we reward those who play different roles in society.
Through all of his work, he takes the lofty concepts of classical Greek thought and leverages them ingeniously as potent tools for understanding the modern world in fresh and interesting ways.
Perhaps the most telling detail of Paul's career is the table. Tired of leading seminars at clunky, rectangular tables, where people sitting at the long edges had to peer around each other to converse, Paul, also a handy woodworker, set out to find a fix. Over two months, he designed and built a 20-seat elliptical seminar table, the two foci that created its harmonious shape standing for art and science.
The ellipsis enabled better learning by allowing everyone at the table an easy sightline to everyone else. The table was so popular that the university made copies of it for each of our seminar rooms in the Main Building. Paul's seminar table, as beautiful in form as it is perfect in function, is a fitting emblem of his restless intellect, his tireless work ethic and his convening, nurturing spirit.
For the thousands of current students benefiting from his leadership, for the many more thousands of alumni in leadership positions across Texas and around the world who have benefited from the programs he has shaped, and for those whose lives he has enriched by his body of thought-provoking work, Paul Woodruff is my Texan of the Year.
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The woolie-hat wearers are my fave. meks me sweat just looking at em. FFS Take it off!
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The British in the sun
Plenty of roast beef according to the French ...
I do find my Ugg boots slip off the pedals though.resoled mine with 5tens but i hear they're doing an spd range next year so back to clipless for me
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My man tits are pert and inviting. So, can I go topless?
this post is useless without......
The best place to go in this weather is Piccadilly gardens in Manchester
Guess where I'm staying 3 nights a week till September....
This thread seems to be almost entirely about my dad. Except for the daisy dukes. The older and fatter he gets, the more he gets his shirt off.
I keep my pasty white pigeon chest under wraps, like a properly repressed british person. Might get a burqa.
Tom. Piccadilly? Do you like fighting? Not necessarily yourself. But maybe watching drunk people, both male and female, battering each other outside Weatherspoons?
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The best place to go in this weather is Piccadilly gardens in Manchester
You will require
1. Black Adidas/Nike tracky bottoms, rolled up to your knees
2. White socks, tucked in your Rockports
3. No top/wifebeater to display prison tattoos
4. Additional tattoos displaying the names of your multiple offspring in a gothic font
5. Copious Mr T style gold jewelery to accessorise the no top/wifebeater effect
6. Can of stella in one hand, spliff in the other
7. Your picnic handily packaged in a Greggs bag
The uniform for the men isn't that different
Ive been lunching in gordon square gardens in bloomsbury next to UCL
its populated almost exclusively by slim attractive tanned young women- mostly postgrads or arty types from RADA, stylishly dressed enjoying the sun without exposing too much , hotpants or light floaty dresses are quite popular however
beverages are usually a simple bottle of evian or a frappacino and lunch is usually sushi or something organic and tasty from the farmers market over the road
there is one podgy, pale, tattooed bloke there sweating away trying to subtly perve from behind his mirrored oakleys- but I do keep my top on
I retain sufficient self-awareness to know that revealing any part of my body will induce automatic vomiting for 500 yards around, so have a rule never to even wear shorts in public (unless on my bike - that's different). So why can't others consider the wider populace?
A suit has been fun on the Tube this week though - not.
I walked over London Bridge a couple of days ago in stifling heat and a guy in front of me was wearing a thick cardigan. No idea how he didn't pass out from heat exhaustion.
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Beanies? Why?
I own a wearer of a black beanie, also black tshirt and black skinny jeans - the reason has been clearly explained to me, it's "BECAUSE, OK?"
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I retain sufficient self-awareness to know that revealing any part of my body will induce automatic vomiting for 500 yards around
I hear you brother!
The better half has been saying 'you're sat in your own back garden FFS! Nobody can see you. Why not take your t-shirt off and get some colour on your pasty white skin!" But if I can envisage any situation, even one involving alien invasion, where I could end up being seen in this half-clothed state, by real human beings, who are possessed of a capacity to point and giggle, then I'll be staying fully clothed thanks very much
Dress down Friday in That London's Famous City of London today.
Which is nice. (Ruby Iridium Holbrooks today, as it happens)
Was working in Mallorca a few years back, the company provided food in a hotel in Magaluf... grim, what kind of idiot sits out frying in midday Spanish sun?
The supermarket where I work has a No top, no come in policy. It's quite entertaining sitting on the security podium by the door bouncing people out. Feel like the bloke in that bank Ad "Sorry mate, Policyyyyyyyy"
what kind of idiot sits out frying in midday Spanish sun?
One who's been out since the night before, and has consumed their own body-weight, twice over, in Stella, as well as 10 - 15 E's
Flashy - I imagine your Ruby Iridium Holbrooks have a hidden James Bond stlye minaturised camera (I'll be really disappointed if they don't), so do feel free to share
One who's been out since the night before, and has consumed their own body-weight, twice over, in Stella, as well as 10 - 15 E's
Suppose, but you could sit in one of the 1000s of handy, shady, nearby bars and they'll serve you more of those cold refreshing Stellas too...
After all the Stella and E's, I doubt logical and rational reasoning is at its optimum
It's the blokes I see riding bikes with hoodies on, with the hoods up, that get me.
I happily wear shorts for as long as the weather is kind enough to allow, March to October, usually, but it's a tee on top, when out in public. A Prana or Hot Tuna tank at home, but not in public. Up in That London tomorrow, for a gig at Somerset House, so I'll be looking at lots of attractive young women in light summer clothes. Iridium Frogskins essential.
High 5 binners - in a properly-covered way!
Copenhagen in summer. Oh yes ...
Copenhagen in summer. Oh yes ...
Copenhagen Cycle Chic FTW!
Munich in summer.... Sooo many titties on display today it made...........
....... my eyes water.
Yay for summer and Germans easy going "I'm going to get my tits out/go naked attitude....
Was riding home t'other day and saw a large 50ish chap pulling a shopping trolley down the road. That's not uncommon for round here, what made the difference was his t-shirt was rolled up over his impressive beer gut so it looked like a sports bra.
That picture ^^ reminds me of being in Granada airport waiting for a flight home and a woman in there wearing a pale top over lobster-red skin. She must have fallen asleep on the beach - panda eyes, bra lines in pasty white, the rest of her was pillar-box red. She must have been in agony.
I of course found it hilariously funny.
sometimes I long for the days when air-travel was glamourous and only for the well to do.
Then I remember that I'm poor and I wouldn't be able to go away anywhere if this was still the case.
Munich in summer...
Rather awkward when those that are on view are of your colleague, shortly before a meeting.
Great Malvern train station. 17:30 Wednesday evening. Man wearing thick black leather trousers and a chunky knit jumper
Houns, was he a tall chap? Dark hair?
I did see at least three seperate old Croatian blokes (In Croatia) proudly walking around with their t-shirt rolled up to expose their well upholstered (but not enoromouslly obese) midriffs. They looked proud and I presume it aids the digestion. I now refer to this behaviour as "kiting".
I did see a lady in a scarf in last month's mini heatwave. I wasn't haluicinating, but she may have been.
I take my top off in the sun. Why shouldn't I? Don't want a t-shirt tan. That said my body is fine - it's my face that's offensive.
Currently frying in the Spanish sun!
CFH, yes he was.
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SAN JOSE — San Jose State coach Ron Caragher is dealing with plenty of unknowns as his team prepares to face North Dakota in Thursday's season opener.
With a new coaching staff and a turned-over roster at North Dakota, the Spartans are making some educated guesses about the type of team they'll face.
"You just have to do your due diligence and make your best guess of the type of schemes they're going to run," Caragher said.
North Dakota, which isn't to be confused with three-time defending Football Championship Subdivision champion North Dakota State, is coached by Bubba Schweigert. He took over after UND went 3-8 last year and fired Chris Mussman.
Schweigert spent the last six years as defensive coordinator at Southern Illinois. Offensive coordinator Paul Rudolph was the head coach the last seven years at Division II Minot State, so Caragher said he'll try to glean something from the schemes run at their previous stops.
"You've really got to focus on yourself and take care of your business and be prepared for a lot of different things that can come your way," Caragher said.
Caragher pointed to North Dakota's last two games against Football Bowl Subdivision teams as reasons not to overlook the FCS foe. UND lost to San Diego State 49-41 in 2012 when it had the ball late in the game with a chance to tie and lost 27-22 to Fresno State in 2011.
"Play like I've been here before," Tucker said. "Last year, I got a lot of good reps, and I feel like I can just roll it over into this year."
Tucker was SJSU's second-leading rusher last year with 338 yards, and his 5.1 yards-per-carry average was best among players with more than two carries.
Redshirt freshman Brandon Monroe should also see an expanded role in his first collegiate action at running back. He played two games at safety and on special teams last year before redshirting with an ankle injury.
"We like our running backs to be well-balanced, and I think Brandon fits in that," Caragher said of the 6-foot-1, 221-pound Monroe. "He brings a little girth to the position. The first two guys, Lawson and Tucker, they're more of the speed, make-you-miss guys, and Brandon's more of the all-around type of running back. He's got some power."
"He looks like the Billy Freeman that we've seen," Caragher said. "I haven't see him leap a defender thus far, but I'm sure that's on the horizon."
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I have Vaults and Burgtec MkIIs. The Vaults are great and just as grippy as the Burgtecs but the seal keeps on popping out of one of them and the bearings have already gone rattley (only had them a couple of months). On the other hand, the Burgtecs have only had a single bearing change in 5 years and are indestructible.
I wish I'd gone for the new Burgtecs instead of the Vaults, especially now their weight is competitive with similar pedals (the old MkIIs are ridiculously heavy).


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Offender: Denied parole in 2004
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Patrolmen Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini were shot and killed while on foot patrol in the Colonial Park Houses public housing complex, at 159th Street and Harlem River Drive. They were ambushed by members of the Black Liberation Army.
As the two patrolmen were returning to their cruiser at approximately 10:00 pm, three suspects snuck up behind them and opened fire. Patrolman Jones was struck in the back of the head and killed instantly. Patrolman Piagentini was shot 13 times and succumbed to his injuries en route to the hospital.
One of the suspects stole Patrolman Jones' weapon which was later recovered in San Francisco, California, after several BLA members opened fire on a San Francisco police officer.
The three suspects were arrested and sentenced to 25 years to life. One of the suspects died in prison. The other two have been denied parole several times. These two suspects, along with five others, were also involved in the murder of Sergeant John Victor Young of the San Francisco Police Department on August 29th, 1971. One has a parole hearing in June, 2018, and the other has his hearing in February, 2018.
Patrolman Jones had served New York City Police Department for five years and was assigned to the 32nd Precinct. He was survived by his wife and three children.
The Black Liberation Army was a violent, radical group that attempted to fight for independence from the United States government in the late 1960's and early 1970's. The BLA was responsible for the murders of more than 10 police officers around the country. They were also responsible for violent attacks around the country that left many police officers wounded.
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Officer James Richard Greene
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Police Officer Gregory Philip Foster
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Police Officer Sidney L. Thompson
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Today is Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Sun….. 2nd degree Taurus
Moon….. 4th degree Aquarius
Mercury….. 28th degree Aries
Venus….. 18th degree Pisces
Mars….. 13th degree Libra, retrograde
Ceres….. 23rd degree Libra
Jupiter…..13th degree Cancer
Saturn…..21st degree Scorpio, retrograde
Uranus….. 13th degree Aries
Neptune….. 6th degree Pisces
Pluto….. 13th degree Capricorn, retrograde
Eros….. 17th degree Capricorn
Lunar Node….. 28th degree Libra, retrograde
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The path of least resistance can be the best choice today, and it's probably the most attractive, too. Your ability to scope out a situation and predict the most likely outcome is amplified.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Once off track today it can be tough to get back on task. Stay on the straight and narrow from the get-go and you may reduce the need for later damage control.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Energy spread too thin is ineffective. Concentrate when it counts. Letting someone with more specialized expertise take the reins can be the smart move at work or concerning a home repair.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Dreams have a way of going around in circles today. Practical chores or errands can be constructive outlets that serve as an anchor for restlessness. You can get things done.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You bring big enthusiasm to a workout, game or competition today. A charity event or everyday set of circumstances is an opportunity to express the most generous side of your nature.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A restoration project moves along slowly but surely where there is appropriate follow-through. A befuddling turn of events takes time to analyze and understand. Don't rush to judgment.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Rational thinking works in practical circumstances but might not cut it when you are contemplating supernatural, philosophical or spiritual matters. Deja-vu can cause you to revisit a happy or encouraging memory from the past.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You are unlikely to stop pushing forward until you feel like you are on solid, stable ground today. In love or career, you have a strong desire to know where you stand. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sloppy effort produces sloppy results. Quality can suffer if you, or someone else, are in too big a hurry to finish a job. Love can be as stormy as it is erotically charged today.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A treasured item may be obtained or a financial goal reached today. You are able to bypass a dead-end alley in a career matter if you are paying attention. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Something that seemed to be getting off the ground nicely could temporarily stall today. If circumstances are outside of your control you may have little choice but to bide your time.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Fate may drop something good in your path today but you will need to see things through intuitive eyes to correctly identify it. Keep your emotions fine-tuned.
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WOODBRIDGE — Plans to tear down the Beesleys Point Bridge and replace the southbound span of the Garden State Parkway bridge connecting Atlantic and Cape May counties could be delayed due to a squabble over environmental issues, NJTA officials said Tuesday.
The New Jersey Turnpike Authority is prepared to award a contract for the $210 million project, expected to last three years, at its February meeting, but one holdup remains: permits from the state Department of Environmental Protection.
As a condition of building the new bridge, the authority is required to compensate for the area lost in construction. To that end, the Turnpike Authority agreed to shoulder the bulk of the demolition costs for the Cape May County-owned Beesleys Point Bridge with the thought that removing the roadway and restoring the area would fulfill a substantial portion of its obligation.
However, the state DEP now says that's not the case, NJTA chief engineer Richard Raczynski said.
"(DEP) decided that since the roadway hasn't been used in five years, we shouldn't get credit for it. They decided that. It's not written in the rules. So we have a meeting with them on Thursday, and it's affecting our permitting at this time," Raczynski said.
Raczynski made the comments in an interview with The Press of Atlantic City following the authority's board meeting in Middlesex County Tuesday.
Larry Hajna, a spokesman for the state DEP, confirmed that the authority is seeking wetlands and open water mitigation credits for the demolition of the Beesleys Point bridge but released few specifics saying the deal was still in discussion. Asked about any issues related to the length of time since the roadway was used, Hajna said he wasn't aware of that level of detail in discussions.
"We'll work out the credit issues. If what they're proposing is somehow not sufficient, we'll find something that is," Hajna said. "It's not something that could hold up the project."
That sentiment, however, was not shared by the Turnpike Authority, which is involved in the Beesleys Point Bridge demolition specifically for the mitigation benefits. The bridge, which dates to 1928, has been shut down since 2004 due to structural issues. Cape May County purchased the roadway connecting Upper Township and Somers Point for $1 from the Beesleys Point Bridge Co. in 2008 with intentions of restoring it.
But after restoration costs soared from $20 million to $32 million, those plans were scrapped. The Turnpike Authority's plan to include the bridge's demolition in its project saved Cape May County from paying the costs to do so.
"It's a big credit for us. If they won't give us the credit, then we have to find another site to do additional mitigation," Raczynski said. "That might consume some time for us."
Raczynski said he hadn't yet looked into alternative mitigation land, but similar problems in mitigation have held up authority projects in the past. The removal of the traffic lights on the parkway in Cape May County was delayed for months due in part to difficulty in securing mitigation space.
When an area is destroyed in a construction project, the builder is required to mitigate within the same general area. That can pose problems if there are few mitigation opportunities.
Cape May County Engineer Dale Foster said the county wasn't aware of any mitigation dispute and wouldn't be involved in Thursday's meeting.
"We don't have any interest in the mitigation. That's the Turnpike Authority. Their whole thought process behind getting involved was because of the mitigation," Foster said.
Previously released estimates have placed demolition costs at $9 million. Of that, the county was expected to handle demolition of the drawbridge, about 3 percent of the 4,829-foot-long bridge. The county expects a federal reimbursement for the work, which would cost about $1 million, and the Turnpike Authority would finance the remainder.
Turnpike Authority spokesman Tom Feeney said the authority won't release cost estimates until the project goes out to bid. The county originally expected to demolish its portion last fall, but that didn't happen following holdups due to Hurricane Sandy, the county said. NJTA now plans to handle the demolition in one contract.
Until the mitigation issue is settled and the authority obtains the environmental permits, work can't begin to construct the new southbound parkway bridge. The current structure dates to 1955 and is cracking and rusting.
The new bridge will include a walkway for pedestrians and bicyclists, and will include three lanes and a shoulder. The existing bridge has two lanes and no shoulder. The project also includes the refurbishment of the northbound section of the bridge constructed in 1973.
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Randy Couture did it again.
For the second time in as many fights, Couture shocked the world and defeated a challenger that was supposed to run him over. This is nothing new to Couture. He's been an underdog for the majority of his career. However after two huge wins over two dominate heavyweights, can Couture be an underdog any longer?
Couture dominated challenger Gabriel Gonzaga over two rounds and an assault of strikes on the ground two minutes into the third forced referee Herb Dean to stop the fight, allowing Couture to retain his UFC Heavyweight Title. Gonzaga laid in the Octagon, bloodied and exhausted, in front of the 11,118 in attendance at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. It was a sight that many did not expect to see.
Gonzaga put himself on the map with a vicious knockout of Mirko Cro Cop this past April at UFC 70. A single headkick from Gonzaga left the supposed best striker in MMA unconscious on the mat. Couture said that he had developed the perfect strategy to beat Gonzaga during training. Gonzaga (8-2) stated that he found that Couture (16-8) had a fatal flaw in his game. It was Couture that ultimately won the chess match.
Couture landed a quick left hook to start the fight and the two soon engaged in a clinch up against the cage. It was the smaller Couture that was able to control Gonzaga along the fence. Another exchange of strikes followed and once again Gonzaga was stunned by a Couture left hook.
Couture then lifted Gonzaga in the air and took him down with one of his trademark slams. When they stood up, blood was pouring out of Gonzaga's nose, the result of an accidental clash of heads on the way down to the mat according to Couture.
"I think that's what cut his nose pretty bad," said Couture. "When he came down our heads came together. I heard the crunch and I knew his nose was broken."
Gonzaga was forced to spend the remainder of the round breathing out of his mouth and fending off another array of strikes from Couture. After the horn sounded, Gonzaga walked back to his corner a bloody mess. His corner removed all of the excess blood from his face but couldn't stop the blood from dripping out of his nose.
The second round began and again the fighters clinched up against the cage. During the grappling session, Gonzaga told Dean that he was unable to see because of blood in his eye. Dean stopped the bout and repeatedly asked Gonzaga if he was able to continue fighting to which he responded yes. The doctor on duty came in and wiped some blood out of Gonzaga's eyes before the bout was re-started.
Couture attempted to take Gonzaga down as soon as the action was permitted to continue and Gonzaga quickly grabbed the fence, preventing Couture from slamming him to the canvas. Dean swiftly swooped in with a warning and then a point reduction for Gonzaga. When the fight re-started once again, Couture peppered Gonzaga with punches and elbows in tight until the end of the second stanza.
Gonzaga came out strong at the start of the third, throwing combinations that sent Couture jumping backwards. Gonzaga threw two high kicks, hoping to end the fight that he was visibly losing. One of them connected but Couture was able to shrug it off and continue going after Gonzaga. Couture then swept Gonzaga off of his feet and pounded away on a defenseless Gonzaga until Dean halted the bout at the 1:37 mark.
Couture retained his title and remains on top of a heavyweight division without a clear number one contender.
Undercard Action
Georges St. Pierre returning to his winning ways with a unanimous decision victory over powerhouse wrestler Josh Koscheck.
St. Pierre (14-2) dominated the entire fight by beating Koscheck (9-2) at his own game. St. Pierre was able to take Koscheck down to the mat at will and a steady ground and pound assault mixed in with a few submission attempts gave St. Pierre the first two rounds of the fight.
The third session was spent on the feet. Koscheck desperately tried to catch St. Pierre with a big shot to turn the tide in his favor but St. Pierre was able to avoid the strikes. St. Pierre put the finishing touches on an impressive victory by stuffing Koscheck's final takedown attempt and then putting the challenger on his back. St. Pierre unleashed another flurry of strikes until the conclusion of the bout.
After the fight, St. Pierre tried to convince UFC President Dana White that an event in his hometown from Montreal would have the fans going crazy.
"I want Dana White to know that if he brings the UFC to my hometown of Montreal, the fans will go even crazier than this crowd" shouted St. Pierre.
Lightweight sensation Roger Huerta remained undefeated in the UFC by stopping Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu expert Alberto Crane with strikes in the third round.
Huerta (19-1-1-1) dominated from the start of the fight and was surprisingly able to keep up with the submission artist on the ground. Crane (8-1) attempted a number of submissions throughout the fight but wasn't able to make Huerta tap. Huerta took advantage of Crane leaving his face open during the attempts by landing numerous punches and elbows, causing a nasty mouse to develop under Crane's right eye.
Huerta also pulled off a UFC-first inside the Octagon – While Crane had Huerta's back and the two were sitting on the ground, Huerta took advantage of the video screens around the arena and used them to elbow Crane in the face from behind.
"I've actually done that before in other organizations besides this one," stated Huerta. "I would use the screen to see where my opponent was if I was being held from behind. I guess I have eyes in the back of my head sometimes."
Joe Stevenson earned a hard-fought unanimous decision win over Kurt Pellegrino and now may find himself in line for a title shot if UFC Lightweight Champion Sean Sherk is stripped of his title after testing positive for steroids.
Stevenson (28-7) and Pellegrino (10-3) went back and forth throughout the fight. Both scored points on the feet and on the ground. However Stevenson turned up the heat in the third round, taking Pellegrino down and pounding on him with unanswered blows until the round ended.
Stevenson was gracious during a post-fight interview with UFC color commentator Joe Rogan, praising everyone who helped him prepare for the fight and thanking the troops fighting overseas. During a post-fight examination by a Nevada State Athletic Commission doctor, it was revealed that Stevenson had suffered a broken jaw in the fight.
Canadian Patrick Cote pulled off the other huge upset of the night when he was able to stop Ultimate Fighter 3 winner Kendall Grove in the first round.
Cote (11-4) and Grove (8-4) spent the majority of the first round on their feet, each landing their fair share of shots. However things changed when Cote was able to land a looping right directly on Grove's temple, sending Grove stumbling down to the mat. Cote pounced on Grove and pounded away with numerous unanswered right hands until referee Herb Dean stepped in and ended the bout.
Cote is now on a two-fight winning streak in the UFC after dropping his first four inside the Octagon.
Preliminary Bouts
Renato "Babalu" Sobral prevented a possible three-fight losing streak by submitting fellow light heavyweight David Heath with an anaconda choke 3:30 into the second round.
Sobral refused to release the hold when referee Steve Mazzagatti waved off the fight, prompting Mazzagatti to try and pry Sobral's arms away from Heath's neck. Sobral (28-7) told Rogan after the fight that he held on to the submission on purpose to try and teach Heath (7-2) a lesson.
"I left the choke on longer on purpose," Sobral told Rogan. "He must learn respect. He deserved that."
NSAC Executive Director Keith Kizer stated after the fight that he plans on withholding $25,000 of Sobral's purse until an investigation into the event is finished.
Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Frank Mir most likely salvaged his career in the UFC with a submission win over Antoni Hardonk in the first round of their fight. After a brief exchange on the feet, Mir (10-3) quickly took Hardonk (5-4) down and forced him to tap out after Mir locked in a kimura.
Thales Leites continued his run of dominance in the UFC's middleweight division with a submission victory over WEC transfer Ryan Jensen. Jensen (11-2) knocked Leites (12-1) down with two separate right hands during the beginning stages of the first round but Leites was able to regain his composure and took Jensen down, eventually catching Jensen in an armbar and forcing him to tap out.
The first preliminary bout of the night saw fan favorite Clay Guida steal a split decision win over former PRIDE standout Marcus Aurelio. Guida (22-8) was able to score many times on the feet with a potent array of strikes while Aurelio (14-5) was content to fall back to the ground and attempt to try and goad Guida into jumping into his guard. After the fight, Guida gave Aurelio a little heads-up as to where he is fighting now.
"This ain't PRIDE anymore," exclaimed Guida. "This is the UFC."
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What's Happening: March 2014 - Part 1
Congratulations to Irish Grand Prix rider Judy Reynolds on getting married to Patrick Heavey on 2 March 2014. Reynolds, who is based in Hunxe, Germany, held her wedding celebration at Luttrellstown Castle in Ireland. The couple got engaged on 11 June 2013.
Danish FEI rider Bo Hostrup lost his Grand Prix horse Gøngehusfarmens Lucifer. Hostrup decided to euthanize the 14-year old Danish warmblood gelding (by Linaro x Carthago) as the horse did not recover from a long period of injury.
Jessica Werndl has sold her developing Grand Prix horse Waterkant to Korea. The 10-year old Hanoverian stallion by Wolkenstein II x Matcho AA as last competed internationally in the small tour at the 2013 CDI Vidauban.
Iron Spring Farms' Dutch warmblood stallion Consul (by Nimmerdor) has celebrated his 30th birthday. The licensed stallion started as a show jumper in The Netherlands before selling to the U.S.A. where he competed at small tour level. He is the dam sire of the recently deceased international Grand Prix horse Orion (by Jazz).
After parting with his top horse Bon Bravour, Belgian Tom Franckx has lost the ride on another FEI level horse. The KWPN licensed stallion Westenwind (by Flemmingh x Contango x Ulft) has moved in training with Kirsten Brouwer. Franckx trained the horse up to Inter II level.
During the CDI-W Burbank in California at the end of February 2014, a group of Swedish judges attended a judges' forum hosted by Ulf Wadeborn and moderated by Bo Tibblin. This is the first time that Swedish judges from Prix St Georges to Grand Prix level went abroad to widen their horizon using this format. The group praised the opportunity to be educated and inspired by watching and discussing unknown and famous horse and rider combinations. There are plans to make this Sweden-Goes-USUA judges forum a reccurring event.
Lindsey Holleger's top American junior riders Friedensfurst suffered a colic attack on 14 February 2014. The 12-year old Trakehner gelding (by Donaufurst x Hohenstein) responded well to veterinary intervention and did not need to be moved to the clinic. Holleger and Friendensfurst won individual gold at the 2013 North American Junior Riders Championships and were the reserve junior champions at the 2013 U.S. Dressage Championships.
German based Canadian Grand Prix rider Alexandria Wilson-Lampe has given birth to a baby girl Allegra on 14 February 2014. "She is so wonderful," said the ecstatic mom. "After recovering and taking some time to get aquainted with our new life, I'll be back to riding and competition."
In an interview with Dutch equestrian magazine De Hoefslag, Hans Peter Minderhoud revealed that he acquired ownership of the 19-year old Dutch mare Nadine (by Partout). With the chestnut mare Minderhoud booked his greatest career successes so far. She was retired in 2011. One year ago owner Ton Kies wanted to move the mare to his yard, which made Minderhoud decide to buy her and keep her with him. Hans Peter also disclosed that they have tried breeding her to Totilas for the past two years but the mare re-absorbed each time. "Nadine no longer has to go anywhere," Minderhoud said. "She's now spending great time in the field with a pony and will move with us to the new stable in Oosterbeek."
Australian Grand Prix rider Fiona McNaught married her partner of five years, Edward Selby, a few weeks ago at her equestrian centre Boneo Park in Boneo, Australia. The couple met at business school. They honeymooned at a resort in Thailand.
American Young Rider Ayden Uhlir is the first equestrian athlete to attract sponsorship from multinational Nike. Uhlir has been training with Christine Traurig. A long time participant in the U.S. Developing Youth program, Uhlir won gold at the 2012 North American Junior Riders Championships and got at the 2013 North American Young Riders Championships aboard her Dutch bred geldin Sjapoer (by Contanog).


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Sludge handling almost eliminated
At DanFish International, C.C.Jensen A/S will present its latest solution in oil filtration for the fishing fleet - a filter that eliminates the sludge problem in lube and diesel oils and reduces the need for oil change.
Oil filtration, compared to traditional solutions like centrifuges and purifiers, has several advantages when it comes to reducing the impact on the environment, says the company.
Oil has to be clean to work properly, regardless of its purpose. In the fishing world problems caused by sludge, soot, water and particles in lube oil and diesel oil cost operators and ship owners manpower and money every day.
The problems primarily come in two different categories: Firstly, the sludge, water and particle contamination of the oil increase the wear and tear and very often lead to machine breakdowns.
Secondly, getting rid of sludge is very costly. Also, part of the removed sludge actually consists of oil that has to be replaced by fresh oil, resulting in further expense.
Traditionally, the problems caused by sludge and particles have been approached by means of cleaning the oil. This can be done by either separating or purifying the oil in, for example, a centrifuge or by filtering the oil. Modern and effective offline oil filters can actually, with almost 100% efficiency, remove water and even the smallest particles.
Sludge is one of the major costs in the operating of many types of fishing vessels. It has to be stored properly onboard, and removal of the sludge is only possible at harbor and at a considerable cost. In addition to this, operators also have the expense of replacing the lost lube oil in the systems.
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- CC Jensen supplies filters to Iceland
- Cleaning fuel? Do it the Danish way
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- Sludge handling almost eliminated


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As well as our announcement around ZenZui - we also yesterday announced the Deepfish technology from our Live Labs team.
This is an incredible new browser technology for Windows Mobile that allows you to browse real PC designed websites from your mobile device and navigate them really easily.
The technology also includes some really smart caching capability which means pages load really fast!
It was available for download HERE however the signups have been completely exhausted!
I actually recorded a short video this morning to show you how cool it is!


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After an unprecedented, relentless four-year investigation, the long-anticipated Starr Report arrived in 36 boxes to the House of Representatives on September 9, 1998. The report brought to a close the first chapter in the saga of the trials and tribulations of the Clinton presidency. But most importantly, it was a prime piece of evidence in the subsequent impeachment hearings.
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Susan Ferrechio
Washington Examiner
Monday, August 10, 2009
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., are decrying an "ugly campaign" by angry mobs who are disrupting town hall meetings to discuss health care reform.
The two top House Democrats penned an op-ed piece in USA Today to promote the Health Care reform legislation that is now making its way through the Congress. The bill has a price tag of more than $1 trillion and would be funded by tax increases. It would create a massive government-run insurance plan and would cut back on Medicare expenditures.
As lawmakers try to sell the plan at August town hall meetings in their districts, some have been met with angry crowds who are opposed to the steep cost of the plan and the scope of the government takeover.
Pelosi and Hoyer called the disruptions, "an ugly campaign," designed "not merely to misrepresent the health insurance reform legislation, but to disrupt public meetings and prevent members of Congress and constituents from conducting a civil dialogue."
This article was posted: Monday, August 10, 2009 at 8:30 am