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A backpacking trip to Sheep Canyon CampThe weekend's forecast was dire - heavy rain expected on Saturday and not clearing out until Sunday morning. Well, that didn't deter the trip I'd planned with 5 fellow backpackers. Even Sonya was enthusiastic, despite this being her very first backpacking trip. So on Saturday I drove through a heavy downpour and dense fog down Cajon Pass and south on the 15. I met Sonya in Norco at the Starbucks on 6th Street. Her husband shook his head at us when we said we were still going despite the obvious soaking wet conditions (I'd gotten a similar reaction from mine earlier.) We bought coffee, loaded up her pack into my vehicle, then continued south. We were hoping that the rain that we were experiencing in the valleys would let up as soon as we crossed the mountains into the desert. Sure enough it did!
We took Hwy 79 through Temecula, which is a beautiful winding country road. The hillsides are very beautiful since they're green green green right now. We crossed over the PCT near Warner Valley, saw some wild turkeys, then turned on Montezuma Grade. This steep highway takes you quickly down into the desert, to the Borrego Springs area. As soon as we started downhill the rain stopped and the skies turned mostly clear. The views were tremendous!
We drove to the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park Visitor Center where we met Cris, Albert, Nick, and Greg. We inquired on conditions then carpooled north to the Coyote Canyon Road. None of us had ever been here before so we were unsure how far we could drive and where we'd have to start walking from. I thought we had made it to Second Crossing when we parked our vehicles and headed out on foot. But turns out we were only at the First Crossing. So we had 5 miles or so to go to our campsite for the evening.
The Coyote Canyon Road is unpaved, sandy in its lowermost and uppermost regions, and wet and rocky in between. Only Jeep Wranglers and similar very high clearance 4wd vehicles can traverse its length. Of course it's open to hikers, horses, and mountain bikes as well. As we made our way up the road we took advantage of a few side trails that ran parallel. But these trails were quite sandy and slow-going so we opted to stay on the road most of the time. We saw many wildflowers along the road including sand verbena, desert lilies, desert dandelions, chicory, evening primrose, phacelia, and ocotillo.
The road crosses the creek several times. First Crossing isn't too bad, Second Crossing is worse, and Third Crossing is the hairiest. We watched vehicles plow through the stream through a tunnel of willows, what we deemed the "Tunnel of Love". After Third Crossing the road ascends a side canyon and is very steep and rocky. But at the top at a saddle the road becomes sandy again and pretty easy going. We stopped at some rocks near Santa Catarina Spring and ate lunch. I later learned this is where the Anza Party camped in the 1770's while crossing this part of the desert. Here near the spring in Collins Valley is definitely an inviting spot to spend a little time. But we continued about two miles further to Sheep Canyon Camp.
This camp is a primitive one - there are a couple of old tables, only one of which had both a top and seats still intact. There is one shade structure and two outhouses. One outhouse was closed for some unknown reason, and neither outhouse has a roof. There is no trash service, no potable water, and no fee. In the winter and spring, after winter rains, there is water in nearby Sheep Canyon that you can filter. Overall I found the spot to be quite pleasant.
Once we reached camp it started to sprinkle. So we hurried to put up our tents. Sonya had just bought her tent, the same model as mine, and had never set it up before. So this was quite the test, to put it up in the rain! I coached her and then put mine up. I had some trouble because I couldn't find my stakes! So I borrowed a couple of Sonya's. We were in such a hurry that I didn't realize they were so close together that their vestibules overlapped a few inches. We later dubbed them the Siamese Twin Tents.
Once the tents were up, as luck would have it, it stopped raining. We saw a pretty rainbow appear to the east and then walked west up Sheep Canyon a little ways. We filtered water, then walked back to camp. It started to rain again. So we crawled in our tents and proceeded to wait out about 3 hours of rain. So it was a good thing Sonya's tent was so close to mine. We could talk and we shared a stove to cook our dinner. Once we were about ready to hit the hay, the rain stopped. That was the last of the rain.
I had a good night's sleep and awoke to birds singing in the canyon, including a Canyon Wren, whose song is one of my favorites. We got up, cooked and ate breakfast. We all sampled some of Cris' breakfast which consisted of a Quail egg and potato scramble and pad Thai. Yum! Then we packed up for a dayhike and headed up Indian Canyon then Cougar Canyon. Was this ever a pretty spot! Tons of water coming down the rocky canyon and lots of little waterfalls. Sycamores in the canyon were budding and we found mortar holes alongside the stream. Sonya, who is a strong hiker but nonetheless tired from her first backpack excursion, didn't want to bushwack too far up the canyon. I stayed with her at the first sizeable waterfall we saw, while the guys went up further. They reported a bigger waterfall up canyon that you could walk behind. Also Greg found a mortar hole with three pieces of pottery surrounding it. He also saw a frog. Neat! The only thing that would've topped that would be seeing some bighorn sheep. But we only saw sheep scat.
Sonya and I soaked our feet in the COLD water and enjoyed the WARM sun. After a while we started heading down the canyon. Soon after we saw the guys heading down as well. We all met up back at camp where we ate lunch and packed up and then headed out. The hike back was pleasant. The sun was warm but a cool breeze thankfully was blowing. We encountered more people this day, hikers and 4wheelers. Everyone was out on this warm spring day in force enjoying the desert.
Once we were back at our vehicles we loaded up and headed into town. We ate a sandwich at Calico's Deli then headed towards home. I joked with Sonya on the way home that for the first time I actually wore her out! She's usually the one wearing me out on long dayhikes ;)
So, we had a good time. The scenery was beautiful, the company pleasant, and Sonya survived her first backpacking trip including the ultimate test of putting up a tent in the rain. I liked it so much I'm about to do a repeat performance this weekend - despite rain in the forecast - out in Joshua Tree :)


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I have long felt that what people really want to believe in is an afterlife, not in a god so much. Belief in a god serves as a gateway to belief in an afterlife but if you asked people which they would prefer (a god but no afterlife or an afterlife and no god) I suspect that they would choose the latter by a landslide. (I explained my reasoning back in 2010.)
Robert Siegel, co-host of NPR's All Things Considered, said on the air that he is skeptical about the existence of the afterlife. He got some feedback on that and as a result he has started a series of discussions on the topic. Here is the first one with an evangelical pastor.
In the interview, Siegel asks the kinds of concrete questions that should be asked, such as "If we still possess, say, racial characteristics in heaven are we corporeal beings, do you think? Do we have to eat? Do we have to drink? Are we with our loved ones? How much like life do you think the afterlife is?"
The preacher answers in the affirmative. Of course, if you think that people eat and drink in heaven, then you have to postulate a food growth and distribution system, not to mention sewage and other waste disposal system. If you think about it for a bit, you realize that the afterlife can get complicated pretty quickly.
Siegel also asks another good question.
Let me ask you a little bit about what befalls those who are evil. There are behaviors that in their day were considered sinful and are not today, or that were considered normal and today are rejected. Slavery was once tolerated by religious authority even. Interracial marriage was once regarded as sinful by believers. Can there be a hell in the afterlife that we can understand if, indeed, our own appreciation of sin has changed so much over time?
At this point, the preacher starts making stuff up, which is the usual result when you probe them deeply on such matters.
If people really believed in an afterlife, they would have thought things through about what it is like more clearly. What they seem to really want is that they will still be around, in some form, forever.


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Jennifer Jones is going to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver after all.
But the Manitoba skip will be going as a crack reporter, not a competitive curler.
Jones failed to earn a trip to this year's Olympics at the Canadian Curling Trials in Edmonton but received an unexpected request while still there.
"I'm going to the Olympics," Jones told The Sun after practising at the MTS Centre before yesterday's Grand Slam final. "I got a call from Yahoo.com and I'm going to be reporting there ... I'll be blogging and doing video updates and stuff.
"I'll be the curling analyst and I'm really excited to go because I'll see what you guys do on the media bench. Part of it is a challenge because I'm going as a totally unbiased third party so, it'll be interesting to see how that feels."
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"It's just an experience and I think, an experience of a lifetime, and I'm really excited," she said.
But first, Jones and her St. Vital squad will attempt to win their third consecutive Canadian crown --which would be a Manitoba record -- at the national Scotties Tournament of Hearts that starts in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., this Saturday.


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Serving as a replacement for the forgettable L-Series, the new Saturn Aura marks a renewed attempt by the brand to establish itself in the midsize sedan market. The car impresses on a few fronts. Its handling is above average for the segment, and its two available V-6 engines are capable performers. Where it struggles is on the inside, with an interior that has too many problems to be considered among the best in the segment.
Like the Pontiac G6, the five-person Aura is built on an extended-length version of GM's midsize-car platform, and it's one of the best-looking sedans using this design. It features subtle fender flares, a naturally arcing roofline, and a short rear deck. The base XE model has standard 17-inch steel wheels (17-inch aluminum wheels are optional) and the uplevel XR gets 18-inch aluminum rims that fill up the wheel wells nicely. The clear-lens taillights feature LEDs.
While its styling is appealing, I miss the aggressiveness of the concept version from a few auto shows ago. Here's hoping the Aura will eventually get a high-performance Red Line variant with the bulging fender flares, side skirts, and gaping lower grille that gave the concept such a sense of presence.
The Aura's road manners are a pleasant surprise. The four-wheel independent suspension has front and rear stabilizer bars, and when cornering, the XR model remains impressively flat for a family sedan; body roll is well controlled. The suspension is tuned for firmness, but it's fairly good at damping bumps in the road, too. It's a setup that's likely to appeal both to buyers looking for a sporty feel in their sedan as well as those who just need a means of transportation.
In keeping with the sporty dynamics of the chassis, it takes some effort to turn the steering wheel. Unfortunately, the driver isn't given much feedback in return for the added effort. The rim of the tilt/telescope steering wheel feels overly large, too.
GM has been hyping the quietness of its Buick models lately, but perhaps it needs to highlight Saturn. Even when driving on often-noisy concrete roads or next to semi trucks, the Aura's cabin remains impressively quiet. There was, however, an ominous cracking sound that seemed to emanate from the optional first-row sunroof each time I hit a large bump in the road.
Though they're of similar displacement, the two V-6s have different characteristics. The 3.5-liter V-6 provides more-than-adequate acceleration, and the smooth 3.6-liter V-6 is stronger still. The larger V-6 sounds more refined under hard acceleration, emitting a muted growl, but most drivers should be happy with the base V-6's performance.
The 3.5-liter V-6 uses a four-speed automatic transmission. The 3.6-liter V-6 drives a new six-speed automatic that was jointly developed with Ford. The six-speed automatic includes a clutchless-manual mode that lets the driver change gears using paddles on the steering wheel when the console gear selector is in the M position. The six-speed automatic's downshifts are quick and firm, but occasionally jerky. Four-wheel disc brakes deliver linear stopping performance.
Although I was initially impressed with the Aura's interior design, I began to notice flaws after spending a few days behind the wheel.
The biggest shortcomings are flimsy interior pieces and panels. The driver's door armrest feels like it's about to come loose each time its indentation is grasped to pull the door shut, and the ceiling-mounted sunroof controls flex into the headliner with each touch. There are rough plastic edges on the glove box, front door pockets, and a dash storage cubby, as well as questionable faux stitching accents on the door armrests.
The Aura also fails to include basic features like grab handles, and there's no center armrest for rear passengers. Combined, these issues give the interior an undeveloped, preproduction feel. It's all the more startling when you consider the strides GM has made with the interiors of its new full-size SUVs and in cars like the Chevrolet Impala.
The cabin does have some strong points. The optional leather front seats are firm but comfortable, though very tall drivers might wish for more backwards seat travel. The center dashboard's controls are smartly arranged, and power adjustable pedals are optional.
The rear seats closest to the doors have comfortable backrests, and there's sufficient legroom thanks in part to the carved-out backs of the front seats, which create extra room for the knees of rear passengers.
As of publication, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety had not tested the Aura. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration awarded the Aura five stars for both the driver and passenger in its frontal crash test.
Antilock brakes, traction control, side-impact airbags for the front seats, and side curtain airbags are standard. The XR adds an electronic stability system. All three rear seats include top tethers and anchors to secure child-safety seats; that's more than many cars have.
At 14.9 cubic feet, the Aura's trunk is comparable to the competition. Folding the standard 60/40-split rear seats exposes a wide - but not especially tall - opening between the trunk and the cabin. Maximum towing capacity is 1,000 pounds when properly equipped.
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In place of a traditional in-dash navigation system, the Aura is available with OnStar Turn-by-Turn Navigation. Subscribers can contact an OnStar operator to get directions, which are then sent to the Aura through the OnStar system. Voice guidance is provided through the audio system. The system works well in practice, though it's not always available in rural areas. When turn-by-turn directions aren't available, the operator can read directions to you through the OnStar system, which can record them for later playback. The Aura comes standard with one year of OnStar's base Safe & Sound plan, but Turn-by-Turn Navigation is part of the Directions & Connections package that costs $100 for the first year and $299 per year thereafter.
Whether you'll like the Aura or not depends on what's most important to you in a car. If you value a robust engine and capable handling in your midsize sedan, it's worth a look. If you're most concerned with how the car holds up on the inside, the Aura comes up short when compared with the competition.
This sedan is more proof that good things can happen when GM throws its resources into a brand. It's a shame the Aura's cabin didn't get a little more attention so the interior could be worthy of the rest of the car.


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People who put their trust in horoscopes, astrology and mediums are "colluding with an illusion" and must turn back to place their trust in God, said Archbishop Sean Brady of Armagh and primate of Ireland.
Underlying the trend of "future-telling" is a fear of the future, said the archbishop during his a homily at Our Lady of Knock Shrine, reported The Irish Times. The archbishop celebrated the Mass of the Queenship of Mary, and gave a homily on the theme "Following Christ in the 21st Century."
The archbishop said he has noticed people "seeking to control their future rather than entrust their future to God's promise and plan." He said "future-telling" was evidence of a life without God to address the deepest needs of the human spirit.
He observed that the "land of saints and scholars" had become better known as "the land of stocks and shares".
"Tragically, it has also become a land of increasing stress and substance abuse," he was quoted as saying. "The result is an increasing culture of insecurity and fear," he said.
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When Josh Beckett was introduced during the opening ceremonies for the 2012 Boston Red Sox home opener at Historic Fenway Park, there were a smattering of boos mixed in with some cheers. By the time he walked off the mound in the 8th inning, there were no boos heading his way.
Just a standing ovation from the crowd.
Beckett's pitching along with the day his batterymate Kelly Shoppach had were the big reasons the Red Sox won their home opener 12-2 over their AL East rivals the Tampa Bay Rays.
Of course this was all overshadowed by the injury suffered by Jacoby Ellsbury when he tried to break up a double play and Rays shortstop Reid Brignac came down on his right shoulder. The initial reports are that Ellsbury has a shoulder dislocation and will miss 6-8 weeks. An official announcement from the Red Sox should come at some point today.
For the second straight start, Beckett's velocity was down a few miles per hour from where it normally is. But that really didn't matter on Friday.
Beckett was able to mix in all of his pitches and command all of them. His changeup might have been his best pitch of the afternoon. With his velocity down so were the strikeouts. Beckett had at least one strikeout in his 280 career games and he almost didn't get there until he struck out Carlos Pena in the 8th inning which turned out to be his final inning.
Beckett would have probably gotten the chance to go for the complete game win since he had thrown an economical 94 pitches through eight innings. He didn't get that chance though as his teammates put up an eight spot in the bottom half of the inning.
Given that Beckett did so well with Shoppach behind the plate, it wouldn't surprise me to see the two paired up again in his next start. Of course it also didn't hurt that Shoppach was 3-for-4 with three RBIs, three runs scored and his first career stolen base in his first attempt. And it was a stolen base that he'll never forget due to the ugliest slide and steal of second you'll ever see.
Shoppach was the catalyst on the offense though.
He started off the 3rd inning by getting hit with a David Price pitch and came around to score one of three runs the Red Sox put up in the inning. With one out in the 4th, he doubled off of Burke Badenhop and came around to score on an Ellsbury single. And in the 8th, he doubled in two of the eight runs on the inning.
Of the starting nine players on offense, only Cody Ross didn't have a hit. Ross however did knock in a run with a sacrifice fly and was outstanding defensively in center after Ellsbury left the game. Adrian Gonzalez joined Shoppach with three hits on the afternoon with an RBI. Kevin Youkilis looks to be warming up offensively as he had two hits and three RBIs while David Ortiz knocked in two runs on two hits as well.
Given the poor start, it was nice to see the Red Sox come out and make Price work. They got him out of the game after three innings. We're used to seeing the Red Sox do that to pitchers and that was something they hadn't done in the first six games.
Hopefully they can do that again this afternoon.
We'll be back later on today with this afternoon's lineups, batter/pitcher matchups and links from the day. So for now, let's take at look at the overnight links from the media by clicking on the read more button below if you're on the home page.
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Rays of light for Beckett [Boston Globe]
Gain and pain [Boston Globe]
Shoppach thrilled to bag his first stolen base [Boston Globe]
Lengthy absence would really hurt [Boston Globe]
Safe at home [Boston Globe]
As if one were needed, reminder of a fried season [Boston Globe]
Pair are masters of the ceremony [Boston Globe]
Crawford close to seeing game action [Boston Globe]
Scott stands behind comments about Fenway [Boston Globe]
Much lost in win [Boston Herald]
Hard play, harder hurt [Boston Herald]
Shopp 'til he flops [Boston Herald]
No twiddling Sox' thumbs [Boston Herald]
Cody Ross now man in middle [Boston Herald]
Optimism shines through at Fenway [Boston Herald]
Center of concern [Boston Herald]
Last mound visit for Wake, Tek [Boston Herald]
Jacoby Ellsbury injury a reminder of '10 nightmare [Boston Herald]
Varitek, Wakefield honored with first pitch at Opening Day [CSN New England]
Beckett, Sox blow away Tampa Bay, 12-2 [CSN New England]
Shoppach gets first steal; keeps base [CSN New England]
Beckett flips script, dominates Rays [CSN New England]
Beckett, Shoppach groove together [CSN New England]
Rapid reaction: Red Sox 12, Rays 2 [ESPN Boston]
SB makes Shoppach's great day historic [ESPN Boston]
Best guess for Ells? 6 weeks minimum [ESPN Boston]
Josh Beckett aces Boston Red Sox home opener test [ESPN Boston]
Hill continues his progress [Extra Bases]
What are the potential implications of Jacoby Ellsbury's injury? [Full Count]
Closing Time: Josh Beckett dominates Rays; Jacoby Ellsbury injured [Full Count]
Worst-case scenario for Jacoby Ellsbury? Very, very bad [Full Count]
Josh Beckett Far From A Punch Line In Fenway Opener [Hartford Courant]
Does Tampa Bay Have the Best Starting Rotation in Baseball? [NESN.com]
Red Sox Worried About Jacoby Ellsbury's Injury, Prepared to Adapt If It's Deemed Serious [NESN.com]
Josh Beckett's 'Perfect Outing' Jump-Starts Red Sox Season and Pitcher's Possible Cy Young Candidacy [NESN.com]
Cherington takes Red Sox's slow start in stride [RedSox.com]
Shoppach steals show with stolen base [RedSox.com]
Bittersweet first Fenway opener for Bailey [RedSox.com]
Crawford set to start extended spring games [RedSox.com]
Red Sox staff uses off-day for good cause [RedSox.com]
Wake, 'Tek enjoy emotional day at Fenway [RedSox.com]
Sox fan to celebrate his and Fenway's 100th [RedSox.com]
Everything's not Jake: Sox prepare for life without Jacoby Ellsbury [Alex Speier – WEEI.com]
Red Sox find the comforts of home [Touching All The Bases]
For more slices of Red Sox goodness, head over to the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, CSN New England, ESPN Boston, NESN, Providence Journal, RedSox.com and WEEI websites.
And if you must check out the enemy news, head over to the Tampa Bay Times and Tampa Tribune websites.
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Reports of airlines refusing to board some overweight passengers have the more than 1/3 of Americans who are obese wondering, am I too fat to fly?
ABC News reports that the FAA's only steadfast rulings for obese travelers are that all passengers must be able to properly wear seat belts, a passenger cannot be seated in an emergency exit row seat if a seatbelt extension is required, and no aisle may be blocked by a passenger in case of an emergency.
If you think you may be too big to fly in a standard coach seat, there are a few steps to take to ensure that you, and the person sitting next to you, enjoy a comfortable flight.
- Buy an extra seat: As you may have read here recently, USA Today reports that some passengers will be "fully reimbursed for the second fare in 90% of cases." Air France, Southwest, JetBlue and American Airlines now promise to reimburse obese fliers the fare of the second airline ticket if the plane isn't full.
- The first come, first serve advantage: Southwest, EasyJet, and few other European low costs carriers offer early bird benefits for obese travelers. Travelers who show up at the airport early can board first and choose a desirable seat.
- Upgrade: If possible, purchase a business or first class airline ticket. The extra investment in your comfort is the difference between seats that are 17 to 18 inches wide and seats that are up 35 inches wide.
For the latest on airline specific policies regarding overweight passengers and other in-flight policies, read our Airline News page.


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2010 Toyota Tundra Double Cab - Consumer Review
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Vehicle2010 Toyota Tundra Tundra Grade FFV 4dr Double Cab 4WD SB (5.7L 8cyl 6A)
ReviewThis is my first toyota and I will most deffenently buy another one. Like all companies including the big 3 there are some issues with some of the trucks not all of them are perfect. Just wanted to mention that after reading some of the other reviews. My truck has not had a single issue. Drives great rides great performs great. The gas mileage kinda stinks on E85 but the cost of it makes up the difference and you get more power running it. Only thing i noticed was a bouncy ride on highways that have the groves to prevent water build up. After the first tire rotation that went away. If your thinking about buying a truck buy this one. You will love it.
Best FeaturesBack up camera, POWER, tailgate assist, and room in the cab.
Worst FeaturesNothing its a great truck. Only things i would want done are things that can be added on at the dealership.
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A Look Inside The Strider ST50F
We decided to disassemble this power supply to see what it looks like inside, how it is designed, and what components are used. Please read our Anatomy of Switching Power Supplies tutorial to understand how a power supply works and to compare this power supply to others.
This page will be an overview, and then in the following pages we will discuss in detail the quality and ratings of the components used.
This power supply uses the same project as Zalman ZM360B-APS and ZM460B-APS power supplies, as you can see comparing Figure 4 to Figure 5.
Figure 4: SilverStone Strider ST50F overall look.
Figure 5: Zalman ZM360B-APS overall look.
One interesting thing about this power supply is that it uses its housing as an extension to the secondary heatsink, as you can see in Figure 6. The manufacturer used thermal grease between the secondary heatsink and the power supply housing.
Figure 6: The power supply housing is also used as a heatsink.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A Look Inside The Strider ST50F
- 3. Transient Filtering Stage
- 4. Primary Analysis
- 5. Secondary Analysis
- 6. Power Distribution
- 7. Load Tests
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So much for a CFL work stoppage.
The Canadian Football League and the CFL Players' Association have reached a tentative agreement on the terms of a new collective bargaining agreement, the league said in an email on Wednesday afternoon.
The agreement has not been ratified by the players and the CFL board of governors, but a vote will be held before the regular season starts on July 1.
The new CBA will have a drug-testing policy, but details will not be released until the agreement has been ratified.
No one involved with the league figured a lockout or strike would actually happen, as any sort of work stoppage would have been as close to a death knell for the league as possible.


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Valenciennes beat Evian 2-1; Toulouse see off Sochaux 2-0; Ayew heads OM past St Etienne
Valenciennes 2 – Evian 1 (Ligue 1, December 23, 2012) A Rudy Mater cross was helped on inadvertently by Aldo Angoula into the path of Pujol, who controlled to put Valenciennes 1-up. Evian drew level when Yannick Sagbo set up strike partner Saber Khlifa in the 34th.The decisive moment came in the second half as as Djakaridja Koné was shown a straight red card for a challenge on Opa Nguette. With quarter of an hour remaining, Mater and Anthony Le Tallec combined to set up José Saez to score his first goal since September last year which turned out to be the winner.
Toulouse 2 – Sochaux 0 (Ligue 1, December 23, 2012) (Official Highlights.) Adrien Regattin and Emmanuel Riviere scored for Toulouse.
Marseille 1 – St Etienne 0 (Ligue 1, December 23, 2012) Andre Ayew headed home a Rod Fanni cross for 1-0 in first-half injury time.


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I went to Boneheads last week for a nice healthy lunch with a friend of mine. I was super excited because I had never been there before and the menu looked great. There were lots of fresh fish, grilled vegetables and yummy sides.
I ordered the grilled Mahi Mahi, with pineapple salsa, saffron rice and grilled zuccini which turned out to be one of the best lunches I have had in a long time and I felt great eating such a healthy and delicious meal


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(NECN: Alison King) - Here's how one resident of Boston's South end describes the parking - even on a good day: "It's terrible. You gotta ride around so many times just to wait for someone to move so you can get a park."
Throw in a heavy snowstorm and for drivers, and it's a disaster.
But there is a not so secret code in Boston, where if you shovel out your car, you own that space - as long as you mark your territory.
Could be with a chair, a golf bag, a grandfather clock - even the kitchen sink. But the tradition could become a thing of the past based on a request filed by a neighborhood group, The South End Forum.
It wants to ban space savers and there seems to be plenty of support.
Here's a sampling of comments:
- "I think with the digging out of the chairs, there's an implied menace behind it which is, if you move the chair, something bad will happen to your car and that seems like, against civilized society."
- "I personally think that you shovel it out- it should not be yours. You can not claim it, it's a public street so everyone should be able to use the parking spaces."
- "They don't own it because they shoveled it. They're not entitled to it."
But according to Boston Mayor Marty Walsh - shovelers technically -are- entitled to space savers... Based on written policy...
"If we have a snow storm, a significant snow storm, that somebody shovels there spot out, the rule is 48 hours depending on how severe the storm is - possibly we would extend to 72," Walsh says.
Walsh says he's going to follow the South End's pilot program and wishes them luck.
He does say there are cases of space saver abuse.
He says, "If you go to work on a day that its about to snow and you put a space saver out, that, in my opinion, doesn't count," he says.
And there are those who think they own the space long after the snow is gone, which is what Mayor Walsh is talking about.
I asked David Long of the South End about space saving, and he says he doesn't move his car. Why?
"I just feel there might be repercussions against my car," he says.
More than a few cars have been keyed or "accidently" dented for committing such an act.


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She's Got Style
- Artist: Gregory Piere
- Genre: Jazz
- Release Date: 3/10/2009
Gregory Piere is an extremely talented singer, songwriter, arranger, and producer. His music transcends multiple genres ranging from jazz; to neo soul to funk to R&B. 'She's Got Style' is Gregory's debut CD. His music can be described with three words: smooth, sultry, and sensuous. His dynamic musical arrangements coupled with his silky smooth vocals make this definitely a CD for any all collections. In listening to Gregory's CD you will quickly realize the fact that his talent has no boundaries or restrictions. One of his favorite tracks on the CD is track number 4 which is entitled 'Live'. The track was inspired by Gregory's belief that one should celebrate the gift of life to no end. Gregory's' philosophical approach to his artistry is based on his belief that music is pleasant because of the silence between the notes. If the silence is in the right places the ears find it pleasant. So he systematically fills the silence, leaving just enough to make the music a warm sensational living breathing entity. Gregory's passion is to ultimately do what he does best: write, arrange, record, and produce quality music and provide listeners with nothing less than the best of his musical expression. Originally a drummer, Gregory is now a writer, arranger, producer and pro tools engineer. Gregory is also the founder and CEO of Apairadice productions. Please allow me the pleasure of introducing to you Mr. Gregory Piere. Enjoy!
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A discarded shoe, a fishing net and 20 bags of cockles were all that was left after the disaster that claimed 19 lives at Morecambe Bay. If the cocklers had been English, there would have been pictures of them and their families, but they were Chinese immigrants. So the stories were all about gangmasters, foreign workers and £10-a-day wages.
It was only Richard Spencer's articles in this newspaper that made us realise that these Chinese were real people. When he tracked down their relatives near Fuqing, they told devastating stories of last phone calls.
These Chinese workers hadn't been abusing our generosity; we'd been benefiting from their desperation. They were incredibly hard working, sending money back to their families. They were also astute.
They had come to Britain because the exchange rate was high and they liked the "kind and polite" people. One family had a jigsaw puzzle of an English thatched cottage.
That's the problem with immigration - look at the statistics, and you start talking about floods, rivers and scroungers. David Davis, the shadow home secretary, warns that "the numbers are very scary". But listen to individual cases and a more complex picture emerges.
The Museum of Immigration at 19 Princelet Street in Spitalfields in its exhibition Suitcases and Sanctuary gives wonderful examples of the benefits immigration has brought to London, showing the risks Huguenots to Hindus have taken to reach the capital.
Michael Howard in his speech this week about "The British Dream" talked about his hopes as a young Jewish boy in Llanelli. The hero in Monica Ali's book Brick Lane picks his corns and beats his wife but you sympathise with his efforts to become part of this country.
Then you return to the figures provided by Migration Watch – 14.4 more million immigrants over the next 30 years – and you panic. What happens when we open our doors to 10 more Eastern Europe countries? One tabloid has run a "gipsy invasion" scare story for five days. How will this island cope? Will we end up banning headscarves as the French have done?
This is what David Blunkett has to deal with every day. I remember Mr Howard when he was home secretary saying his greatest fear was a prison break-out. Immigration wasn't on the agenda. The current Home Secretary privately admits it's his biggest headache.
The cockle-pickers show a way forward. Mr Blunkett was right this week to say that Britain requires more workers to boost the economy. It needs foreigners prepared to do the menial jobs that we refuse to do any more – washing up, cleaning, mini cab driving, factory work, construction, textiles, agricultural work and, increasingly, nursing and teaching.
It's no good saying British citizens should be given these jobs; they won't do them. The benefits system conspires against it. Unlike the Chinese families, who fear they will starve if they don't earn money, we know the state will provide.
What Mr Blunkett has to do is to sort the spongers from the savers – and it's proving unbelievably difficult, winning him no votes from either Left or Right. For every step forward he seems to take two back so it's hard to see where he is trying to end up.
The Home Secretary wants to promote positive economic immigration – this year he will issue 175,000 work permits – but it's still not enough.
More legal economic immigrants would cut down on human traffickers – a Chinese father could apply for a work permit instead of having to hand £20,000 over to a Triad leader to smuggle him into Britain and rely on a gangmaster to find him a black market job. They would be part of the tax system, in return they would be entitled to the minimum wage.
The downside, as the Germans found out in the 1980s with their Gastarbeiter, is that foreign workers impose added strains on the state. Their children may not speak English; their health is generally poorer. If there is an economic downturn, their presence causes increased tension.
Hardest of all, they may decide, like many British, that the benefits system is so generous that they might as well give up working as soon as they are entitled to unemployment benefits.
But the solution isn't to pretend to close our borders and then turn a blind eye to large numbers of illegal immigrants with no rights and no responsibilities.
In a letter to the MP Geraldine Smith, who had warned about the dangers faced by Chinese pickers, Beverley Hughes, the immigration minister, wrote, "the Government is cracking down on illegal working and making good progress in removing increasing numbers of immigration offenders from the UK".
Yet in 2002 only one gangmaster was prosecuted for employing illegal immigrants, and only one in five of those who lost asylum appeals was deported.
To win the country over on economic migration, the Government has to show it is serious about tackling illegal asylum seekers. To do this it needs to build holding centres for asylum seekers, something it still hasn't managed.
Of course, the system would have to be much quicker, but in Holland they make initial decisions within 48 hours and appeals within a couple of months.
There doesn't need to be an inquiry into the Morecambe Bay tragedy but there needs to be a measured debate about immigration. Airline carriers must photocopy documents in case the originals are shredded.
Immigrants should be encouraged to learn English, to lessen their chance of being exploited. And welfare rules should be tightened up so that both British nationals and recent arrivals find them harder to abuse. Identity cards would make that easier as well as making life harder for black-market employers.
Meanwhile, as a gesture, Britain could give work permits to members of families who lost their breadwinners at Morecambe Bay so that they can come to Britain legally to pay off their debts.


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I have come across this question of whether JMS and MSMQ are interoperabe a number of times and so I decided to address it. Microsoft does not have a JMS provider for MSMQ so basically you will need to use a third party product or implement your own JMS provider.
I came across an interesting article called Enterprise Messaging in a Heterogeneous Environment. The article describes how to use web services as a proxy between MSMQ and a JMS implementation. The solution effectively implements a custom enterprise message bus using which heterogenous applications (.net and java) can communicate asynchronously with each other.
Another way of accessing MSMQ from Java applications is to use JNI (Java Native Interface) as described here. JNI can be used to call the C api that MSMQ exposes, from within Java applications.
MSDN also has some pointers on implementing asynchronous interoperability.


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Photo report Seaside/Casino Pier/Funtown Pier 7-2-13
Well in honor of Casino Pier finally opening the ride pier this past weekend I thought I'd post my pics from my trip to the Seaside Boardwalk from the beginning of July. I will use CP for Casino Pier abbreviation and FTP for Funtown Pier. I will start with Casino Pier and let you know when it changes to Funtown Pier (it's pretty obvious) The entire set of pictures can be found here(I put them public so anyone can see them) :
One thing I want to mention before I start is please still keep those in your thoughts and prayers who are still struggling and have not been able to rebuild. Just because the boardwalks at all the touristy destinations are looking good it doesn't reflect the entire shore:
We went to Seaside to see the new boardwalk - we were planning on a day at the beach somewhere but the weather was very cloudy and a bit cool so we decided to check out Seaside. Here are some pics of the boardwalk and ride piers.
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Kids are huddled on the beach in a mist...
Thanks for taking the time to post and share those great photos with us.
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"We are going to be playing North Carolina next season early on in a tournament, so that will be a big test for us."
"Early on we struggled, but we came together at the end. We won seven of our last nine to end the regular season. We thought that was good enough to get us into the tournament, but it wasn't quite enough again."


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Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point January 22, 2013
Hudson, FL – Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point's Alzheimer's monthly support group meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 5 from 10 am to noon in the second floor conference room. The meeting is open to caregivers and other interested people to discuss and exchange ideas as well as help and encourage those who are involved in the care for Alzheimer's patients. For more information contact Laura Arnold at 727-863-0176 or Alzheimer's Family Organization at 727-848-8888.


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Rio Wins Number One Box Office Spot
Box Office: Rio Murders Scream 4
Despite the good reviews of Scream 4, it couldn't beat fellow new release Rio at the box office. The animated flick, which features the voices of Anne Hathaway and Jesse Eisenberg, brought in $40 million to claim the number one spot. Scream 4 trailed it with $19.3 million, a significantly less opening total than previous Scream sequels (Scream 3 opened with $34.7 million back in 2000).
Easter bunny kids' movie Hop, last week's box office winner, came in third with $11.2 million. Fourth place was claimed by inspirational surf film Soul Surfer with $7.4 million, and the top five was completed by Saoirse Ronan's action vehicle Hanna, with $7.3 million.


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FS LM3886 Triple monoblock amp
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Hi all,
I need to liquidate some of my stereo gear and need to sell my DIY LM3886 triple monoblock amp. All amp chips and transformers are in one enclosure. The enclosure is a prebuilt unit with a custom 1/8th inch solid aluminum faceplate. The power switch is on the front left and one blue LED to indicate power in the middle. The transformers are Avel-Lindberg and were purchased from Apex jr. The specs are:
Input: 2 X 120Vac 50-60 Hz
3 3/4" Dia X 1 1/2" Tall
Output: 2 X 28.4V @ 2.67Amps over 150Va
All three transformers have their own PS boards as well as 2amp slow blow fuses. The PS boards and the amp boards were purchased from Brian GT at chipamp.com. I originally purchased a dual monoblock kit and then a friend gave me a single monoblock kit he had kickin'around so I thought I would use all three in one enclosure. Each LM3886 amp chip is cooled by a solid aluminum Pentium 4 cpu cooler. I have found that it works quite well. Speaker connections are dual binding posts red and black. I have also used 1\8th inch steel plate to sectioned off each amp from each other and to keep the PS board and transformer isolated from the amp chips. The top cover of the enclosure has slotted vents near the back to dissipate any heat. Rubber grommets are used where wires are feed through. This triple monoblock LM3886 produces 68w per channel into 8ohms. This amp can produce very loud volumes quite easy. I've never had an issue getting any kind of volume from this amp. Now I've never owned any high end amps before, but compared to the amps that come with AV receivers these days, this amp kicks butt!! All you need to do is go to the chipamps section and read the postings. I would really like to get back what I put into it. I'm not looking to make any prophet. This amp really needs a good home.:D
$300.00cdn OBO plus shipping.
Thanks for looking,
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Here's a pic of the inside.
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still have that amp for sale I live in Ontario and would like to buy it how much does it weigh for shipping
Hey chevy
334 collingwood st
Chevy :)
Amp is still FS.
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I am new to taxidermy and I have done a two deer skins and can not seem to get them soft. I have cleaned the skin and then salted it until dry. What should I do next to make them soft.
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The autumn/winter '12 collections are finally dropping, but with rumours of a long-awaited summer finally on the horizon were looking for that statement piece thats also trans-seasonal.
A statement sweater is the answer. Designers had fun with what was once a discreet staple especially Burberry (cutesy forest-creature inspired), Phillip Lim (fashion meets comic book) and MSGM (bright and bold florals). Bazaar picks the top ten to wear now.


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The Professor of Secrets: Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy (Hardcover)
Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy
National Geographic Society, 9781426206504, 368pp.
Publication Date: July 20, 2010
In the tradition of Galileo's Daughter and Brunelleschi's Dome, this exciting story illuminates the captivating world of the late Renaissance--in this case its plagues, remedies, and alchemy--through the life of Leonardo Fioravanti, a brilliant, remarkably forward-thinking, and utterly unconventional doctor. Fioravanti's marvelous cures and talent for self-aggrandizement earned him the adoration of the people, the scorn of the medical establishment, and a reputation as one of the age's most colorful, combative figures. Written by Pulitzer-prize nominated historian William Eamon, The Professor of Secrets entices readers into a dangerous scientific underworld of sorcerers and surgeons. Meticulously researched and engagingly written, this gripping narrative will appeal to those interested in Renaissance history, the development of science, and the historical thrillers so popular today.
About the Author
William Eamon is a widely published, internationally known and respected scholar based at New Mexico State University. His first book, Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in the Medieval and Early Modern Culture was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in history and won the History Book Award from the Association of American Publishers. He is co-editor of the excellently reviewed Beyond the Black Legend: Spain and the Scientific Revolution.
Praise For The Professor of Secrets: Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy…
"The author presents what medicine was like during the Renaissance with a wealth of unexpected details…and a light, accessible touch…that makes this book welcome reading not only for the summer but for any time of year." —Los Angeles Times
"In this entertaining biography of Neapolitan physician and self-promoter Leonardo Fioravanti, Eamon gives a portrait of sixteenth century Italy that is far more realistic than that of those who follow the myth of the Renaissance." –Book News


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A national postal strike will put six-day-a-week letter deliveries at serious risk, the government's independent adviser on the Royal Mail says today in a furious assault on the government's inability to modernise the service.
Richard Hooper, author of a major report to ministers that called for part-privatisation of Royal Mail, told the Observer he found it "immensely frustrating" that the government was unable to act on his recommendations – and the country now faced a crippling strike.
Hooper stopped short of directly criticising Peter Mandelson, the business secretary, who shelved plans for a partial sell-off of Royal Mail in the face of intense opposition from more than 140 Labour MPs in June.
But Hooper made clear he believed it was a decision that – unless reversed by a future government – could only accelerate the decline of Royal Mail, deepen its financial crisis, worsen its massive pension deficit and lead to a scaled-down service for the public.
"What is frustrating is that Peter Mandelson said in the House of Lords that this [the Hooper report] was probably the best researched, the best thought-through, the best evidence-based report they had seen. Virtually everyone except members of the parliamentary Labour party and the unions agreed with the report and it is deeply frustrating it has not been implemented," he said.
Hooper, a former deputy chairman of Ofcom, argued that the "universal service" – which guarantees one collection from every post box and post office per day, six days a week, and one delivery of letters, six days a week – would be under greater threat than ever, if the national strike went ahead.
"We were clear that the only way forward for the universal postal service was modernisation of Royal Mail and everyone agreed with that. So I think that the universal postal service [is] at risk if the business does not modernise fast enough and as I understand it, this strike is about modernisation."
Royal Mail has suffered a 10% drop in its volume of business since a year ago. "If this was a business that was growing like Topsy, maybe you could do a strike, but this is about decline of letters volume and there is no doubt that as a result of a strike more people use email, more people use mobile texting, more people move away from types of mail, advertisers start to get nervous about it as a mail medium. So all you have is decline of the business, especially if in addition you have a major pension deficit. It is bad news."
Last week, the Communications Workers Union (CWU) balloted its members on a national strike, following a series of regional disputes over modernisation plans that predated the Hooper report. The result will be announced by 9 October. Already at least 25 million letters are stacked up at delivery centres, mainly in the London area, according to the union. Royal Mail says the number is closer to nine million.
Whoever is right, the lives of millions of people have already been disrupted. Utility bills and payments are caught in the mounds of unsorted mail. Householders are harrying the likes of BT and other utility companies because they are worried about being hit with extra charges and threats of disconnection. Letters alerting people to hospital appointments lie unsorted.
"People are shouting at postmen on the doorsteps. They are blaming us," said one young postal worker.
As national strikes come nearer, big firms that use Royal Mail are looking not just at the problems they will face but at the opportunities. British Gas has sent emails to tens of thousands of customers in and around London citing the strikes as a perfect reason to switch to online billing.
In many parts of the country Royal Mail says its two year-old modernisation plans are progressing well. At Gatwick mail centre, manager Mick Fehilly looked on proudly as tens of thousands of letters zipped through state-of-the-art sorting equipment. "We were one of the first to get these," he said, showing off a shiny new £100,000 walk-sequencing machine that organises letters into the order that postmen and women will deliver them next morning.
He says relations between the workforce and management at his centre are good. "Modernisation is absolutely essential to this company," he said. "We have to work smarter."
Unfortunately for Royal Mail, his experience is not replicated across the country. The very modernisation that Fehilly is helping to pioneer has triggered a rash of strikes elsewhere. Workers fear they will lose their jobs, or have their hours cut, as the big new machines take over.
Royal Mail knows it will lose custom for good if there is a national strike. "It is obviously very bad news," said one senior official. "Very bad indeed." Postal workers are also aware the company will suffer. Every 1% decline in volume costs Royal Mail about £70m in lost revenue.
Postal workers approaching retirement fear for their pensions as the company's deficit approaches a staggering £10bn. Yet the mood is militant. Most of the 130,000 workforce expects a "yes" vote. Dominic (surname withheld), a 34-year-old father of two who has been a postman for 18 years and says he would do no other job – "I am proud of my profession" – said he was convinced there would be a yes vote, and wanted one. Trust had broken down, he said. Postmen no longer felt valued as they always did. "It is not about me, it is not about protecting my job. It is about protecting a public service."
It is two years since the last national postal strike ended with a deal between unions and management on the need to modernise the service. A total of £2bn is now being pumped into a programme that will run until 2012.
All parties say they agree on the need for modernisation, yet the sides seem further apart than ever on how to achieve it. At a CWU office in central London, Jean (not her real name), a postwoman for the past six years, was tense and sour. She typified the angry mood. Jean was sacked a few weeks ago after complaining that she had been asked to do two days' work in two hours.
"On one occasion one of the managers spat at me," she said. "When I first did the job I used to love getting out of bed at four in the morning. But at the end I used to cry myself to sleep knowing I had to get up and go to work. There is bullying going on everywhere."
Jean's case, though extreme, illustrates the core of the problem. The union accuses local managers of, at best, failing to consult the workforce about the changes they are asked to push through, and at worst of bullying them into accepting new ways of working.
"Managers are on bonuses worth 10% of their salary if they save money and get it through," said a senior CWU official. "That is a big part of the problem."
The implications of change, the union insists, have not been explained, thought through, and certainly not agreed. Royal Mail calculates that the new walk-sequencing machines are saving each postman and woman half an hour per round because they spend less time sorting letters. As a result it is asking workers to do longer rounds.
In the good old days, if a postman or woman completed a round early they expected to leave work early. Now the company wants them to stay and do other duties. Old informal agreements are breaking down. The CWU also says it is concerned at the company's move to take some workers off bicycles and "walking duties" and ask them to deliver from vans.
A union official said: "The message is, 'if you don't want to drive, you don't want to work'. What about those who don't have a licence? These issues have just not been discussed." To protect its workers, the union is demanding new and binding "job security agreements" that will define what postmen and women can and cannot be asked to do in the brave new world of automation.
For its part, Royal Mail management blames the unions for being unco-operative. While it seems to be against "job security agreements", because they would be too inflexible, it insists its door is open for talks. Managers say workers will not be asked to work beyond their eight hours, although they will be expected to work the time they are paid for. One pointed out that where the company closed or merged offices, workers were offered generous deals, including one-off payments to move to a new centre, and extra travel-to-work money for three years.
"They are some of the most generous terms of any company," he said. Royal Mail says it has held about 70 meetings with the CWU and the door is still open. It says it is powering ahead with modernisation, which in many areas is being accepted enthusiastically by the workforce. Over the summer the company announced a £120m investment in equipment to make it easier for delivery workers – 2,400 electric-powered trolleys and 24,000 lightweight ones "to take the weight off our people's backs".
The impasse is all too familiar to Hooper, who identified the same industrial relations problems when compiling his report. "I had the management coming to me, saying the unions will not engage. I had the unions coming to me, saying the management will not engage… but the fact of the matter is, surely it must be possible for the management and the union to engage, to agree a programme of modernisation and then get on with it."
Selling off a stake in the company would, he believes, bring new management and create a new atmosphere – and with it a new start for industrial relations. The legislation was shelved indefinitely by Mandelson, who said "market conditions" were not right for a sale. The political reality, however, was that Labour MPs were opposed to the part-privatisation and the government did not want a massive row ahead of a general election, and to have to force it through with Tory support.
What infuriates Hooper most is that those same Labour MPs told him, after he delivered his report, that Royal Mail would be capable of modernising, and willing to do so, while fully publicly owned. There was no need to go down a part-privatisation route.
"They said it can all be done under public ownership and, lo and behold, what have we got a few months later… the prospect of a national strike."


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The 2010 New Year celebrations were barely over when the bitter legacy of the Muhammad cartoon scandal returned to haunt Denmark. Overnight on January1–2 an ax- and knife-wielding Somali Muslim broke into the home of Kurt Westergaard, a cartoonist who had produced one of the infamous drawings under the heading "Muhammad's Face" that sparked violent protests across the Muslim world in 2006. Westergaard was unharmed in the attack. He escaped to a safe room in his home in Århus, in western Denmark, and alerted the police, who apprehended the attacker after shooting and wounding him. Reportedly, the Somali man had close links to both the radical Islamist Somali al-Shabaab organization and al-Qaeda in eastern Africa. The assailant was charged with terrorism and attempted murder of Westergaard and a police officer, offenses punishable under Danish law by a life sentence. Westergaard, whose name appeared on Islamic militant death lists with a $1 million price on his head, had lived under police protection since 2008. His drawing of Muhammad sporting a bomb-shaped turban with ignited fuse was perhaps the most outrageous of 12 cartoons related to the Prophet published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005 and subsequently in other Western media. The cartoons triggered attacks on Danish embassies and riots in Pakistan, the Middle East, and Africa—events in which more than 100 people died. That the cartoon affair was far from forgotten—and that Denmark remained a target for terrorists—was underlined by the detention in Chicago in late 2009 of two men who had allegedly planned attacks on Westergaard and the cultural editor of Jyllands-Posten and the arrests in summer 2010 by Indonesian police of three extremists suspected of having plotted an attack on the Danish embassy in Jakarta. Moreover, on the eve of the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Danish police apprehended a Chechen Muslim—a resident of Belgium—after he set off a minor explosion in a Copenhagen hotel while apparently preparing a letter bomb to be sent to Jyllands-Posten. In late December police in Denmark and Sweden detained five suspected Islamist militants of Swedish, Tunisian, Lebanese, and Iraqi origin believed to be planning an attack on the Copenhagen offices of the newspaper. According to the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET), the suspects, four of whom were resident in Sweden, all had connections with international terrorist networks and intended to penetrate the newspaper building and "kill as many of those present as possible" in a machine-gun attack.
On the political front, the centre-right coalition headed by Liberal Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen was reeling from criticism of its leadership of the inconclusive UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009, and it saw its popularity plummet. The centre-left—led by the Social Democrats of Helle Thorning-Schmidt, potentially Denmark's first female prime minister—was increasingly seen as the favourite in the next general election, to be held by November 2011. Responding to slumping public support for Denmark's participation in NATO's International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (which had by late 2010 resulted in the death of nearly 40 Danish soldiers, one of the highest per capita totals among coalition forces), Rasmussen expressed the hope that the Danish contingent would be out by 2015. With Denmark, like other European countries, faced with an ever-burgeoning budget deficit and sluggish economic revival, Finance Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen unveiled an austerity program that called for cuts in public spending of some $4.5 billion over the following three years. In addition, he pledged that the government would maintain a tax freeze.
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Audi-A2DP is a plug-and-go receiver for your Audi that allows you to play high-quality music from your iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone or other Bluetooth-enabled device wirelessly through your car's speakers.
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$50,000 Bail For Missoula Man Arrested After Cutting Three People With A Knife in Downtown Fight
30 year-old Patrick McGrath is being held on $50,000 bail after being charged with three felony counts of assault with a weapon following a scuffle in which he cut three people with a knife.
Deputy Missoula County Attorney Ryan Mickelson said the incident occurred on Sunday night, directly across from the Missoula County Courthouse on Broadway, which houses the Missoula County Sheriff's Office. During McGrath's Justice Court appearance, Mickelson asked Judge Landee Holloway for bail of $100,000.
The defendant pulled a knife on two strangers who were unarmed inside a vehicle," Mickelson said. "One of those individuals was cut by the knife. They then attempted to immobilize the defendant, and then a third bystander came by to help and he also was cut by the knife. The blade was four inches long and the knife was approximately eight inches long."
Mickelson emphasized to Judge Holloway what might have happened if McGrath had not been subdued by the bystanders, and eventually, the sheriff's deputies who responded when they heard the commotion across the street from their office.
"This is a very significant offence," he continued. "Had they not been able to immobilize him, it could have resulted in significant injury, if not death to these individuals. It appears he was highly inebriated at the time, so the State would be requesting $100,000 bail."
Judge Holloway set bail at $50,000, and ordered McGrath to appear again on April 4th.


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Motorola has introduced a new way for you to find your missing phone: the Keylink. It's a small device that you can attach to your keychain. This works with a compatible Motorola Connect app installed on your smartphone. So whenever you misplace your phone, you can just click on the Keylink at it will locate your device.
This will be particularly handy for the likes of me who often misplaces gadgets. You know those times when you can't seem to remember where you placed your phone or tablet and yes, especially the remote? It always happens. Press the button on the Keylink and the device will ring even if it's 100 feet away. But if the Keylink gets lost, you can also use the Motorola Connect App to locate it. (And if you get lost, sorry but the Keylink can't do anything about it.)
Keylink is compatible with Android. Just download the Motorola Connect app from the Google Play Store and you can be worry-free. For Droid Turbo, 2nd gen Moto X, and other phone that runs Android 5.0 Lollipop, you also set up the Keylink and Connect app to keep the smartphone unlocked when the Keylink is near. No need to enter password whenever you have to use the phone because the Keylink will automatically recognize the trusted device.
The Keylink is powered by a small coin cell battery which can last for up to a year. It's only $24.99, available from T-Mobile and Motorola.com
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Earns degree at Bloomsburg Univ.
Heather DeLauretis, a 2005 Tamaqua Area High School graduate, has graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Education from Bloomsburg University.
She is a member of the National Honor Society and Kappa Delta Pi.
Prior to attending Bloomsburg, DeLauretis attended Lehigh Carbon Community College and is a 2007 graduate of the Walt Disney World College program.
Heather is the daughter of Larry and Ann Marie DeLauretis and the granddaughter of Maryanne Androkitis and the late Al Androkitis and Ada DeLauretis and the late Robert DeLauretis. Her sister Megan is a 2010 graduate of Tamaqua Area High School.


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David Wood
Life In The Pub - Poem by David Wood
Low cloud hugs damp close to the ground
Slurred speech from a beer cost only a pound
Smoke from cigarettes on the terraced street
Swirled and its odour hangs around the feet
Of those who indulge in that ludicrous sport,
And reflect, or ponder silently in a glass of port.
Of dark shadows as the dusk spreads wide
As drinkers spill on the pavement outside.
The sound of laughter mixed with music loud
Echoes from the lounge, or snug, made proud
And soft rain on the street spread with puddles,
Of those with brains in disintegrating muddles
Of too much drink.
The shadows of parlour pubs pervade the area
Of not outstanding national beauty, but drearier
Abodes in indifferent streets with modest cars
Parked outside married window blinds. Starved bars
With few punters coming and going into the mist
Of drink at the bottom of the glass, totally pissed,
Before staggering home to a nagging wife
Sums up the meagre story of their miserable life.
Comments about Life In The Pub by David Wood
Valerie Dohren (5/2/2013 2:26:00 PM)
Going to the pub is as much as many poverty-stricken souls can manage for entertainment - very sad and poignant write David. (Report) Reply
Joe Hughes (3/30/2013 6:20:00 AM)
Seductive places beautifully captured here by you.
Unlike your poetry they promise much but deliver little.
Thank you
Joe. Hughes on Poemhunter and at. joehughes.org.uk (Report) Reply
Leslie Philibert (3/30/2013 6:14:00 AM)
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Tag: website design
Did You Survive Mobilegeddon?
Perhaps you heard about Google's search algorithm update last week. Google, a company that has been hinting for some time now that marketers should take steps to make their websites mobile-friendly, finally gave their mobile-friendly advice some teeth. The reaction was not entirely unexpected:
Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes! The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
Incidentally, Google refers to their algorithm change by the much happier and positive-sounding name, "Mobile Friendly Update."
So why does Google care if your website is mobile-friendly or not? It's simple. They want to continue to dominate in the search engine and, thus, the search advertising business. And to do that, they have to deliver the best web pages to their users for any given search. If you happen to be searching Google from a smart phone, you certainly don't want them to send you to a website that loads slowly, has unreadable type and content that doesn't display on your mobile device. From Google's perspective, that's more than just a hassle – it's a failure that could lead their users to switch to another search engine.
Is it the end of the world for your website? Maybe not. But, if your website isn't optimized for smart phones and tablets, there's a good chance that you'll start seeing significantly less traffic.
Our advice? First, don't panic. Your website may be more mobile-friendly than you realize, and it's super-easy to find out. All you have to do is go to Google's Mobile Friendly Test page and plug in your website address. They'll let you know if your website is affected by the new algorithm and even give you the reasons why.
Now if it turns out that your website is not mobile friendly, it would be a good idea to find someone to update your website using the latest responsive design techniques so that you can offer a great user experience to everyone, regardless of their device or screen width. Just so happens, we know a few people who are really good at doing exactly that.
So who ya gonna call?
MWB to Host DigMe Digital Media Conference
Maris, West & Baker is hosting a brand new conference designed to help Mississippi companies learn new ways to market their companies using advanced website technologies, online advertising and popular social media platforms. DigMe, which gets its name from the conference's focus on Digital Media, will be held October 25, 2012, starting at 8:30 a.m., at Table 100 Banquet & Event Center in Flowood, Mississippi.
According to MWB's Tim Mask, "The Internet has revolutionized the way companies market themselves. It has really leveled the playing field for companies, but you have to know what to do and how to do it. We created DigMe as a way to help Mississippi businesses get up to speed with the most promising new technologies and tactics that are out there."
Conference topics include topics including search engine optimization, website content optimization, online advertising, inbound marketing and social media marketing. Guest presenters will include Tucker Marks from ReachLocal and Jim Eustace the founder of Get Smart Content. Details are available on the DigMe Digital Media Conference website.
Six Signs That It's Time For A New Website
The Internet is now the main way people search for businesses. So if your website isn't performing, you could be turning away customers.
Sure, your website may look attractive enough. And you don't have any dead links or cheesy under-construction animations. But is your website really doing its job? Or is it hopelessly out of date? Here are six easy ways to tell if it's time for a redo. (more…)
We Need A New Website. Now What?
"We need a website."
It seems like such a simple statement. But, in fact, the correct response to the situation depends on a wide range of variables.
Think about how you want your website to fit into your marketing program as a whole:
• Is the purpose of your website to provide basic information about your business to potential customers? In that case, you may just need a simple website with basic information and contact info.
• Are you trying to attract business leads? If so, you'll need ample content – the more the better. You'll want to keep the site updated frequently, as well.
• Do you want to make your site useful for visitors? In this case, you may want to consider interactive tools.
• Do you expect significant traffic from smart phones? Of course, having a mobile version of your site would be a necessity in this instance.
• Is social media an important part of your marketing program? Then you'll likely want to integrate Facebook, Twitter and other social media features into your web design.
• Do you want to sell merchandise from your store? Then you'll need a shopping cart application.
In most cases, what you get from your website is directly proportional to what you put into it. The time and resources devoted to designing, developing and maintaining an attractive, useful and frequently updated website do indeed pay-off.
Keep in mind, talent and experience count. After all, anybody who's ever created a WordPress blog can call themselves a website developer. But it takes a lot of training to be able to handle features that go beyond the typical template approach to website building. And simple web development mistakes can easily undermine your web presence, especially when it comes to search engine optimization. (Don't be too quick to dismiss the importance of good SEO for your website: When it comes to search engine traffic, 95% of non-branded website visits come from the first page of search results. If you're not on page 1, you're missing out on a whole lot of click-throughs.)
Our advice: If you're looking for a company to build a website for you, do your due diligence. Check out several recent websites they've created. Ask for references from clients. Make sure you'll have access to a content management system so that you can make basic updates to the website yourself. And be sure you'll be getting access to analytics data, preferably Google Analytics reports. We'd recommend doing a few basic search engine tests to make sure their websites are showing up as they should, too.
And here's an easy way to weed out the good web design firms from all the others: Look at their website. If their website looks dated and dull, what are the chances that the website the build for you will be any better? Slim to none.
Is It Time For a Website Update?
Unless you're a start-up, chances are you already have a website. But is your website really doing enough to market your company?
Here are some things to think about:
- Is your website current? Considering how fast Internet technology is advancing, five years is like an eternity. Are the pictures small and fuzzy? Are your product descriptions still accurate? Do you have pages missing? Do you have a "coming soon" notice that has been in place since your website launched? Or, worse yet, are there typos and inaccurate information?
- Can you update your website yourself? Several years ago, content management systems required a lot more technical expertise. So simple website updates were often left to the experts – at a fee of $100 or so a pop. Those days are over. Content management systems are now much easier to use, and simple updates can be made easily.
- Is your website mobile friendly? Having a mobile website is a good idea. But, at the very least, your website should use mobile friendly technology (i.e. not Flash).
- Can search engines find you? Sure, your company pops up on Google when you enter your company name (eg: Bob's Diner). But does your name show up for non-branded searches (eg: Jackson, Mississippi restaurants)? Do your competitors show up higher on the search results page?
- Is your website easy to navigate? It may seem easy to you. But test your website on a few people who don't know your business as well as you do. Can they find information easily? Or is it more of a chore?
- Do you have access to your website's analytics? It's your website. Shouldn't you know how many people are visiting it? How about these questions: What search keywords brought them to your website? How many pages did they check out? Where in the world did your visitors come from? Here's the answer: You can get very comprehensive reporting with a quick, free installation of Google Analytics. It's a must have. After all, not have access to analytics is like not being able to tell how many people walked through the front door of your brick-and-mortar business.
If you answered "no" to any of the above questions, then it's time to make updating your website a priority.
Search Engine Optimization: Why it Matters for Small Businesses.
Lately, we've noticed a lot more interest in search engine optimization (SEO) from small business owners here in Mississippi. Rightly so. According to some very recent research, more than 95% of all non-branded search traffic from search engines comes from page-one results. In other words, if your website doesn't come up on the first page, most people are simply not going to see you. (more…)


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This a dramatic comedy that takes place in New York City. This plot follows a young urban mother, her husband and two young children as they live their lives in their New York City apartment. The mother Eliza is overwhelmed with the planning of her 6 year old daughter's birthday. She finds the planning is a daunting task when combined with all the responsibilities she has of raising her two young children. She also takes care of a senior neighbor, and the neighbor's dog. The plot turns into one comedic moment after the next as the mother faces her life head on.
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Hampshire can return to the top of their Clydesdale Bank 40 group tomorrow night - but they will be without Dimi Mascarenhas.
The Royals all-rounder is out with the shoulder injury he suffered in the LV Cuunty Championship match against Gloucestershire at Bristol, which finishes today.
Hamza Riazuddin has been included in the 13-man squad for the trip to Cardiff as Hampshire look for the win that would take them back above Group B leaders Surrey.
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Is Embryo Adoption Immoral?
I received an email from a man who was upset about a couple in his extended family who are pursuing a so-called "snowflake adoption," the adoption of a "frozen embryo" (to use, for clarity's purpose only, the satanically clinical lingo… Read More
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By DE Editors
Meggitt Sensing Systems has released its new "2010 Measurement Product Resource," a 63-page, full-color short form catalog, highlighting select models of sensing technologies for aerospace, automotive, industrial, R&D, and test and measurement markets. Meggitt's Endevco, Sensorex, Vibro-Meter, and Wilcoxon Research product lines are now offered under one umbrella.
The catalog is arranged into four sections: Sensors and transducers, which highlights available piezoelectric, piezoresistive, variable capacitance, acoustic, dynamic, and static pressure, displacement and position sensing technologies; Condition monitoring, which includes portable vibration monitors and related instrumentation; Measurement systems, which highlights electromagnetic and piezoelectric shakers, conditioners, rotating machinery vibration amplifiers and calibration systems; and Inertial systems, which includes servo inclinometers, LVDT's and inertial measurement units. Each section includes an introductory paragraph on the benefits and most common applications of individually featured sensing types, along with detailed technical product specifications, presented in a series of comparative charts.
The "2010 Measurement Product Resource" is available for download on the Meggitt Sensing Systems website.
Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.


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Legal Question in Criminal Law in Oklahoma
Selling beer to minor
I was charged with ''selling alcohol to minor'' at a gas station. My photograph was taken but i was neither fingerprinted nor arrested. Later on I was asked to appear on a certain date but before that one of my representative went to the DA (District Atorney) and the DA dismissed the case. But I had to pay the fine of 269 dollars. I did not plead guilty also. I did not appear before the court or judge. After paying the fine, I got a receipt from the court which had a check mark on ''dismiss''. Does it mean that I was convicted for the charge and will it appear on my FBI report / background check. Thank You.
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Re: Selling beer to minor
With the facts you have given, it appears that your charges were dismissed, but you were assessed court costs (dismissed costs to Defendant as opposed to dismissed costs to State). Court costs can be, and quite often are, more than the actual fines.
To find out if there is a record of this event, I would recommend contacting the OSBI.
I would also recommend making certified copies of the original receipt from the court and keeping a copy in your vehicle, on your person, at your home, and anywhere else you may think prudent.
I hope this was helpful to you.
Now here's my "CYA":
This is not intended to be legal advice. This is in response to a message posted with lawguru.com. I have not been retained to represent you regarding any legal matters.
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