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Watch the budget live from the House of Commons
After 11 years in the hot seat on budget day, Gordon Brown will be the warm-up act as he takes prime minister's questions before the chancellor, Alistair Darling, stands up to unveil the much anticipated contents of his first budget.
Brown is likely to be taken to task over the spiralling cost of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, which has almost doubled to more than £3bn this year. Figures published earlier this week by the Commons defence committee showed operations by British forces in Afghanistan had soared to more than £1.6bn, a rise of 122%, and to £1.6bn in Iraq, a rise of 72%.
The costs are about 50% more than the government forecast just three months ago. The prime minister also faces tough questions about the return of British troops from Iraq, after military officials made it clear that regardless of Brown's pledge last October, the number of troops in Iraq will not now be cut in spring.
Brown, who is committed to boosting home ownership, faces questions on the state of the housing market following a survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors published earlier this week, which reveals that market conditions are the worst for more than a decade.
The prime minister could be in for a ribbing over his government's citizenship plans, which envisage children swearing allegiance to the Queen - a proposal which sparked an uproar after being unveiled by former attorney general Lord Goldsmith yesterday as part of measures to restore a sense of British pride and belonging.
Brown could also be put on the spot on whether he intends to deliver on a pledge to change the attorney general's powers. Brown said last July that the role, which combines legal and ministerial functions, "needed to change", following controversy over the way the Goldsmith became drawn into the BAE prosecution, the cash for honours inquiry and the legal advice on going to war in Iraq.
But not all of his ministers are convinced - including the current attorney general, Lady Scotland, who is believed to want to retain the power in the draft constitutional reform bill, due to be published shortly. Will Brown stand by his guns?
As soon as he sits down at 12.30pm, his chancellor will rise to announce his budget. Follow all the budget coverage at guardian.co.uk/politics.
Brown rises and off we go. First question is on the economy. Michael Foster (Lab, Hastings and Rye) raises measures such as the minimum wage that have helped tackle child poverty.
Foster asks Brown for other measures in place. Brown rolls off the 12 million children benefiting from child benefit and tax credits, the three million back in employment.
We will do more in the next few years, he says, but it wouldn't be possible to reduce it further if you went along with tax cuts, he says in a nod to the Tories.
David Cameron
Cameron gets up to quip that planted questions don't seem to be getting any better.
On to international efforts in Darfur. On any objective measure, the situation on the ground for those facing famine in Darfur isn't getting any better, he says.
Brown says there should be sanctions against the Sudanese government, that the African governments must make their contributions, but that everyone should get around the table to sort this crisis out.
Cameron says that Brown said he would visit Darfur. What steps is he taking to support the challenges faced by Darfur?
Brown says the way forward is to move to peace talks as quickly as possible and that rebel groups need to come to the table.
Cameron says a no-fly zone is vital. Anyone who has been to Darfur will talk to people in camps who say it was the Sudanese army that drove me out of my village and they arrived in an aircraft.
So, is Brown still in favour of a no-fly zone?
Brown says he would like to move ahead if at all possible but the area they would have to police is the size of France.
We can get progress on that and get people to the peace talks.
Northern Ireland
Eddie McGrady (SDLP, South Down) calls on Brown to commit to complete devolution for Northern Ireland - including on policing, as well as investment - is needed.
Brown says there is great progress in Northern Ireland, and it's great the Queen is paying a visit, and he hopes that all parties will look at the proposals in Northern Ireland on policing and move forward on that too.
Nick Clegg
The Liberal Democrat leader says it is important to get rich people out of British politics.
The British public is looking on disgusted at the refusal of the Tories and Labour to entertain real reform of electoral funding.
Brown agrees there should be changes on electoral funding, and he adds there should be greater transparency on MPs' spending.
Clegg says Brown isn't doing anything.
Brown says he is slightly frustrated that Clegg didn't take in what he just said - ie that he pretty much agreed with him on all fronts.
Andrew MacKay (Con, Bracknell) asks whether Alistair Darling has been more cooperative with Brown as PM in filling him in about his budget than Brown was when he was Blair's chancellor.
Brown dismisses the claim he used to give Blair just two days' notice.
Free votes
David Cameron comes back in. He raises the issue of free votes on matters of conscience, such as the human fertilisation and embryology bill.
The issue has been whipped by Labour in the House of Lords, but it now seems Labour ministers who are uncomfortable with the bill may be able to abstain, he says.
Cameron says the vote should never have been whipped. What is Brown going to do next, he asks.
Brown says his government will make its decision (for Labour MPs) when the bill comes to the Commons.
Cameron is trying to get Brown to say whether he has changed his mind and whether his MPs will now be entitled to a free vote.
Brown says Cameron simply doesn't understand how this bill came about, but, by the way, he will respect the conscience of his MPs over this issue.
Alistair Carmichael (Lib Dem, Orkney and Shetland) raises the coast guards dispute.
Will he talk to managers about ways to avoid danger at sea? Brown says he's saddened about the strike and all efforts need to be taken to ensure the service continues uninterrupted.
Bob Russell raises support for military personnel wearing their uniforms in public.
Shouldn't the government make it an offence if someone is assaulted while wearing the uniform?
Brown says the police already have powers to deal with people who abuse our armed forces and the public is on side on soldiers receiving the recognition and the acclaim they deserve.
Back to Sudan and UK humanitarian aid funding. Brown says britain stands ready to give additional money if those peace talks are forthcoming.
Boris Johnson gets up, rather flustered over a question earlier about buses in London which suggested that if he won the mayoral election bus services would suffer.
Misrepresented again, blusters Johnson.
He then gets into a row with Brown over his mayoral pledge for policing.
Brown quotes him as saying that there are cuts to be found in the Metropolitan police - though outside the chamber Johnson has already argued his words have been twisted and that he intends to have more police on the streets, and on public transport.
Tom Brake (Lib Dem, Carshalton and Wallington) asks about a convoluted ruling to do with decent homes funding - money to upgrade social housing which will affect tenants in his area. Will Brown meet tenants?
Brown rolls off government policy but doesn't agree to that cup of tea and chat.
Another Labour question, giving Brown the opportunity to talk about the government's climate change commitments.
And again, this time from Fiona McTaggart on employment and skills.
Can the government do more to get employers to commit to giving more skills to our young people?
Brown says McTaggart is absolutely right, this is important and that's why the government is doing more than ever to provide young people with those skills.
A question on Northern Ireland by Jeffrey Donaldson is followed by one on flooding from Jamie Reed (Lab, Copeland). How to prevent it?
Brown says more funding is on the pipeline.
Brown is taken to task about the foot and mouth disease crisis last summer and insists the government is taking on board the recommendations in the Anderson report.
He is then asked about forced marriages in Britain after it emerged that around 3,000 women a year are subjected to forced marriages.
Brown denounces these cases as "intolerable" and vows to clamp down on abuses. That's it for Brown - over to Darling for his first budget.
Watch the budget live from the House of Commons
Main points from the budget as they are announced - live
Live coverage of the budget and all politics news at guardian.co.uk/politics


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Bromley Park: The Origin of the Name
Written by and provided courtesy of Richard Heath
Bromley Park today is one half of the twenty-three acre public housing development in the north end of Jamaica Plain known as Bromley Heath.
Early in the creation of public housing in Boston, it was decided by the Boston Housing Authority that developments would be named for a major street or landmark in which they were located. The Housing Authority Board wanted the tenants to feel they were part of the community and not in a separate corner of it. Heath Street Houses took its name from the thoroughfare on which it was built. The name also commemorates Major General William Heath, George Washington's second-in-command. The development was built on what was once the pasture of the Heath farm.
An aerial view of Bromley Heath taken in April 1977. The Lowell Estate stretched from Centre Street, on the far right, to the ridgeline of the housing cornices. The smokestack in the background is all that remains of the Plant Shoe factory that burned on February 2, 1976. Click on the photo to enlarge it.
Bromley Park was a 680-foot long residential square set perpendicular to Bickford Street and dead-ended at the old Boston and Providence Railroad right of way. The street was lined with brick, bow-front, row houses and divided by three rectangular strips planted with trees, grass and shrubs exactly like those town-house blocks built in the South End such as Rutland Square, Worcester Square and Braddock Park. Bromley Street and Albert Street came off Bromley Park at right angles and connected it to Heath Street. The Bromley Park playground, 50 to 60 Bickford Street and 950 to 954 Parker Street now occupy what was Bromley Park for 75 years.
On March 10, 1785, Judge John Lowell bought a ten and one-half acre farm and farmhouse, which fronted on Centre Street for 750 pounds (Suffolk Deeds: Book 147, Page 269.) Centre Street - known then as "The Great Road to Dedham and Providence" - was one of the principal thoroughfares through Roxbury. The house stood about where 267 Centre Street is today. In the 17th century the land was originally owned by John Weld, one of the founding families - and one of the richest landowners - of Roxbury. (Note: until 1851 Jamaica Plain was a part of Roxbury; called the Jamaica end of the town of Roxbury as early as 1667). The Weld planting fields adjoined the farm of William Heath - another founding family, which stretched up to Parker Hill.
Lowell, described as a "solid citizen of Bristol," determined at the age of 68 that the future was in the New World. A man of wealth, he left England in April 1639 with a party of 16 people; his two sons John and Richard and their wives, servants, furniture and livestock.
It was out of the chaos of the Revolutionary War that the Lowell family emerged as a family of enormous wealth and influence in Massachusetts and established themselves among the highest of the Brahmin class. Judge Lowell was by inheritance, temperament and the society in which he lived and worked, a Loyalist. That is; a Tory, loyal to the rule of the King of England. But he was a shrewd man and like his forebear, Percival Lowell, he was alert to the fact that the New World had greater things in store than the monarchy of England. So; although he knew the last two Royal Governors personally, he threw his fortunes in with that of the nascent nation and joined the political arm of the Nationalists; known as the Committee of Safety, as an elected Selectman from Newburyport.
Lowell seized the opportunity left by the fleeing Loyalists by filling the void they left behind. The Capital was almost empty of attorneys and Lowell prospered as legal advisor to the State Commissioners responsible for Tory property seized by authorization of the 1779 Confiscation Act. This closely followed the Banishment Act of 1778 that ordered all those who sided with the King to leave the Commonwealth. Lowell drew up Deeds of Sale and arranged leases and auctions of the properties. The sale of Loyalist properties and leases of others - such as the Amory House which Lowell rented from the Commonwealth - helped pay for the costs of the Revolutionary War. But he made most of his fortune during the war years in managing the legal work on captured ships and commerce seized by privateers from the British. In 1782, Congress appointed him Judge of Appeals for Admiralty cases.
John Lowell (1743-1802), the 'Old Judge', son of the Reverend John, founded the triple line that shaped New England history for two centuries. As a member of the Continental Congress, he widened the family horizon Harrison Gray Otis called him 'the very mirror of benevolence.' Painting by Gilbert Stuart, on display at Lowell House, Harvard University. Image from The Lowells and their Seven Worlds, Ferris Greenslet, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1946. Click on the image to enlarge it.
Judge Lowell took great interest in the growth of Boston. If his contemporary John Adams worked on the national level, John Lowell worked to strengthen Boston and Massachusetts in the years after the Revolutionary War. In 1783, Lowell was one of the founding directors of the First National Bank of Boston. (His son John would be one of the first vice presidents of the Provident Institute for Savings in 1817.) He invested in shares in bridges, canals and toll roads.
After he moved to Roxbury he commuted across the Boston Neck to his law office but mostly he conducted his business on the farm. And for good reason. Writing in his 1946 biography of the Lowell family, "The Lowells and Their Seven Worlds," from which much of this history is taken, Ferris Greenslet described the Lowell estate just above Hogg's Bridge where Centre Street crossed Stony Brook: "In the old Judge's time and that of his son, it must have been retired and lovely. To the north across the short-pitched valley of Stony Brook, the steep acclivity of Parker Hill hid the spires and soft-coal smoke of Boston. Towards the sunset stretched the shaded hills and bowery hollows of Brookline. Eastward, the old Judge, taking his hundred steps on a sunny morning, could see the bright waters of Boston and Dorchester Bays."
This old house on a Roxbury hilltop in the centre of an estate of thirty acres was purchased by John Lowell, the Old Judge, just after the Revolution. There at the early age of forty-two he retired from the more active practice of law. His son, John Lowell the Rebel, who inherited it, christened it Bromley Vale, and added three new greenhouses, a windmill, a swimming pool, and the tower of a ruined castle. Through the lives of both it was a centre of hospitality for foreign travelers and leading Federalists. Entertained there at different times were both Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. Just after the Civil War, the Vale was pierced by a railroad, and the Old Judge's great-grandson, Augustus, sold the land for development and moved to Brookline. The Rebel's two daughters, Anna and Amory, lived in a small cottage on a corner of the estate for another decade. The house was built before 1765 by Joseph Gardner who owned the land from 1701 to 1779. Image taken from The Lowells and their Seven Worlds, Ferris Greenslet, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1946. Click on the image to enlarge it.
His brother Thomas settled in Brookline and by 1674 owned 175 acres of farmland over what are today Leverett Pond, Pill Hill, Cypress Street and Route 9. He became the richest landowner in the Muddy River section of Roxbury.
But more than this Roxbury farm linked the Lowells and the Gardners; the two great families of Salem were connected by marriage too. In September of 1797 John Lowell's daughter Rebecca Russell married Samuel Pickering Gardner at the Roxbury house. Pickering Gardner was born in Salem in May of 1767 but like his father-in-law recognized that the future lay in the capital city of Boston and he moved there in 1793. (Their grandson, John Lowell Gardner, married Isabella Stewart in 1860.)
A great lover of England, he revisited London in the spring of 1806 and toured the hilltop market town of Bromley ten miles south of London. In the words of the 1876 "Handbook to the Environs of London," Bromley is situated: "on the banks of the Ravensbourne River on high ground in the midst of richly wooded and picturesque country much in favor with city merchants." It reminded the now homesick Lowell of the Stony Brook valley in Roxbury. Greenslet writes, " the long ridges overlooking the smoky valley of the Thames and the distant spires, towers and domes of London recalled the Roxbury hilltop he had inherited … Then and there he determined to christen the estate Bromley Vale."
Lowell The Rebel succeeded his father as president of the MSPA. He was an honorary member of the Horticultural Society of London, founded in March of 1804, and he corresponded regularly with its founder and president Thomas Andrew Knight. Knight sent scions of pear, cherry and plum trees to Lowell as well as seeds for distribution to members of the MSPA. In 1806 six bundles of fruit trees arrived from France and in 1823 the first fruit trees cultivated by the London Horticultural Society arrived in Roxbury. Lowell would plant the trees and vines at Bromley Vale and determine which ones were hardy enough for the New England climate. He would distribute cuttings from his fruit trees to anyone and in time this established a New England fruit nursery system. As he wrote in 1822: "We are utterly destitute in New England of nurseries for fruit trees. We have no place to which we can go for plants to ornament our grounds." In another letter of 1824, he had in his mind the germ of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. "As to horticulture, it is newly explored. I recollect the first boxes of cultivated strawberries ever sent to the Boston market; they are now in profusion, of excellent quality, although they can be better."
John Lowell (1769-1840), 'The Rebel', the Old Judge's eldest son by his first wife Sarah Higginson, Federalist pamphleteer, bitter opponent of Jefferson and Madison, was considered by future generations of the family it's most brilliant member. After the shock of his failure to save the life of Jason Fairbanks, he abandoned the law and devoted his life to travel, agriculture, and good works. He was active in the national and civic affairs from the days of George Washington to those of Andrew Jackson. Painting by Gilbert Stuart, on display at Lowell House, Harvard University. Image taken from The Lowells and their Seven Worlds, Ferris Greenslet, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1946. Click on the image to see a larger view.
At his death on March 18, 1840, the periodical, "New England Farmer" (established in 1822) wrote "the agriculture of Massachusetts was indebted to him more than to any other individual living."
On June 11, 1834, the Boston and Providence Railroad opened its passenger line along the valley of Stony Brook through Roxbury and Jamaica Plain, making it one of the first rail lines in Massachusetts. The railroad skirted the Lowell property and crossed Centre Street at grade. In 1866 when the Boston and Providence Railroad announced that it planned to widen its right of way and expand service to include freight cars for the burgeoning industries in the valley, Lowell and his son Augustus, both living at Bromley Vale, realized that section of Roxbury was dramatically changing. Augustus (1830 - 1900) moved to a nine and one-half acre estate on Heath Street in Brookline that he bought in that same year which he called Sevenels after the seven Lowells in his family.
On May 10, 1870, three large parcels totaling 3 and 3/4 acres facing Centre Street were sold to his neighbor Owen Nawn for $85,000. Nawn lived in a large house on 2.29 acres of land directly opposite Bickford Street. (Today, Chestnut Street goes through the former Nawn property.) This sale included the stone tower and walls near Bickford Street that John Lowell The Rebel built in 1807. The deed restricted that the road which Lowell intended to build from Heath Street (i.e. Parker Street) be kept open as a through way.
The Lowell family burial plot at Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain. The stones for 'Old Judge' John Lowell and for his son, 'The Rebel' are on the left. The Old Judge was removed from the family tomb at the Boston Common Burial Ground in 1895 to allow for the construction of the Boylston Street subway. The author acknowledges with gratitude Ms. Dee Morris for her assistance in locating the Lowell plot. Augustus Lowell, who sold and subdivided his family's estate, is buried with his family in another part of the cemetery. Photograph courtesy of Richard Heath, April 28, 2001
On April 1,1884, Owen Nawn sold a 30,000 square foot lot on the east side of Bickford Street for $2,000 to the City of Boston for the Lucretia Crocker School (Book 1631, Page 614.) This was the second school built in this rapidly growing corner of Jamaica Plain; in 1874 the Lowell School was built on Centre and Mozart Streets.
After the mansion was destroyed, the only architectural fragment that recalled the name of Lowell was the school at the corner of Mozart Street. This was razed about 1963 and Mozart Playground was built. Today, only the name Bromley Park remains to recall the Lowell family.
Richard Heath
June 30, 1999
Catharina Slautterback helped me greatly by finding travel books about Bromley in England and for helping me with portraits of the Lowells. Sally Pierce vastly improved this paper for suggesting I look at "Cultivating Gentlemen."


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"What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness."
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Combination Chemotherapy With or Without Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed Rhabdomyosarcoma
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Breneman J, Meza J, Donaldson SS, Raney RB, Wolden S, Michalski J, Laurie F, Rodeberg DA, Meyer W, Walterhouse D, Hawkins DS. Local control with reduced-dose radiotherapy for low-risk rhabdomyosarcoma: a report from the Children's Oncology Group D9602 study. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2012 Jun 1;83(2):720-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.06.2011. Epub 2011 Nov 19.
Raney RB, Walterhouse DO, Meza JL, Andrassy RJ, Breneman JC, Crist WM, Maurer HM, Meyer WH, Parham DM, Anderson JR. Results of the Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study Group D9602 protocol, using vincristine and dactinomycin with or without cyclophosphamide and radiation therapy, for newly diagnosed patients with low-risk embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma: a report from the Soft Tissue Sarcoma Committee of the Children's Oncology Group. J Clin Oncol. 2011 Apr 1;29(10):1312-8. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2010.30.4469. Epub 2011 Feb 28.


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Hi everyone, there will be 4 of us taking a tour of Israel May 22 - June 3. After the tour ends on the 22nd, we are going to stay an extra 3 days in Jerusalem. The tour covers most of the more "holy/popular" sites around the city and close to the city (such as Masada and Dead Sea) what it doesn't cover is Jericho, Bethlehem, Petra, etc. I was wondering if you guys could help us out in choosing one of these locations (as a day trip) and then helping us do something UNIQUE, something that not every tourist does...I love to get out and see/meet new cultures and experience new things ...whether it be a crypt, cave, mountain, whatever, I just want to experience something that not everyone else does...can you help with suggestions?
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Celebrate the third anniversary of Uptown Saturday Night with a sidewalk sale Nov. 29 in front of shops along San Marco Avenue. From 5 to 9 p.m., experience a variety of cultural displays and plenty of shopping. The event is held the last Saturday of each month in uptown St. Augustine, with free parking at the Mission, where the big cross stands. New art exhibits, book signings, antiques and collectibles, live music and other events will be offered throughout the night. Wine, champagne, appetizers and refreshments help to make the event a festive affair. Uptown Saturday Night is sponsored by the San Marco Avenue Merchants Association. For information, call 824-3152.
The following is a list of participating merchants during the Nov. 29 event:
360 Boutique, 50 San Marco Ave., 342-4064: Enjoy stress-free holiday shopping with affordable jewels, clothing, accessories, gift certificates, apparel and other items. Appetizers will be provided by SAiRA.
Abbott Tract Artists, 31 San Marco Ave., 829-2934: "Only Original Art," a group exhibition by artists of the gallery, will be featured during the event. View paintings in various mediums by North Florida artists.
Art Advocate Gallery, 76B San Marco Ave., 826-4116: "Let There Be Light," a group show by member artists, will depict light in both two and three dimensional forms.
A Step Back in Time, 60 San Marco Ave., 810-5829: Live music by Lonesome Bert & The Skinny Lizards will be featured, with refreshments and appetizers. Antique furniture, American art pottery, elegant glass, kitsch, vintage and contemporary jewelry, home decor and gift items will be featured. Appetizers will be provided by SAiRA.
Barclay Scott Antiques, 4 Rohde Ave., 824-7044: Find antiques and collectibles at the location.
The Bead Chick, 78B San Marco Ave., 829-8829: Local artists will show artwork and jewelr and Al Grintalis, specializing in Baltic amber, will give a presentation from 3 to 6 p.m. Sam Ward, frontman of the band Above/Always, will perorm on the porch from 5 to 9 p.m.
Claire's Collectibles, 78A San Marco Ave., 825-1122: Make a holiday card using rubber stamps during the event. Claire's offers a wide variety of rubber stamps and other accessories needed for creating one-of-a-kind handmade cards.
Coastal Traders, 56 San Marco Ave., 829-1686: Handcrafted Indonesian furniture and Balinese-style decor and lighting will be featured.
Creative Home Furnishings, 48 San Marco Ave., 824-3152: Sip on champagne during an all-day sidewalk sale at this location, featuring indoor and outdoor decor, glass lamps and gift items.
Eden, 82 San Marco Ave., 829-2122: Find antique furniture, candles, glass, china and other items during Uptown Saturday Night. Appetizers will be provided by SAiRA.
New Life Discount Depot, 58 San Marco Ave., 829-9060: Find oriental apparel, new and used clothing and other fine gifts.
The St. Augustine Antique Emporium, 62 San Marco Ave., 829-0544: Find antiques and collectibles at this location -- perfect to gift-giving during the holidays.
S.O.S. Antiques, 74 San Marco Ave., 823-0008: Larimar and Conch jewelry also will be available, along with a large collection of authentic nautical antiques. Appetizers will be served.
Uptown Antiques, 63 San Marco Ave., 824-9156: Peruse antique furniture, jewelry, china, silverware and other fun collectibles during the event.
Village Market, 72 San Marco Ave., 824-8281: Beach decor, nautical items, stained glass lamps, hammocks, gift items and wine accessories can be found at this location.
W.B. Tatter Studio/Gallery, 76A San Marco Ave., 823-9363: Artist Pat Juneau will show a variety of new metal works in a special show during Uptown Saturday Night.
Wolf's Head Books Inc., 67B San Marco Ave., 824-9357: Find out-of-print and collectible books, as well as military manuals, postcards and other ephemera. Appetizers will be provided by SAiRA.
St. Augustine Independent Restaurant Association (SAiRA) serves appetizers at five locations during Uptown Saturday Night.
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Fiesta Bowl Insight: The Excessive Celebration Penalty Needs to GoJanuary 6, 2009
With less than 20 seconds left in the Fiesta Bowl, Texas receiver Quan Cosby caught Colt McCoy's quick slant, spun away from his defender, and raced towards the end zone with no Buckeye in sight.
Shocked, excited, and jubilant, Cosby dove forward, arms outstretched, and landed in the end zone. He had just scored the game-winning touchdown in the final contest of his collegiate career.
Then the flag fell.
"Unsportsmanlike conduct on the offense, excessive demonstration. Fifteen-yard penalty will be enforced during the kickoff…"
Just another college referee ruining the kids' fun. But there were only 16 seconds left, so at least the call couldn't affect the outcome of the game.
As a result of the penalty, the Longhorns were forced to kick from their own 15-yard line. One average kickoff and one average return later, Ohio State found themselves with the ball on their own 42 with 11 seconds remaining, down by only three.
That's plenty of time for one 20-yard pass, or two 10-yard passes, followed by a long, but entirely makeable field goal attempt.
All because Quan Cosby dove into the end zone after making the biggest play of his life.
It's funny that the referees flagged Cosby for "excessive demonstration" not "excessive celebration," as the penalty is commonly called. Because that's exactly what Cosby did—he celebrated. Briefly. After making the biggest play of his life. And there was nothing excessive about it.
The NCAA rulebook defines excessive celebration "Any delayed, excessive, prolonged or choreographed act by which a player (or players) attempts to focus attention upon himself (or themselves)."
No part of that definition even touches on what Cosby did. His dive wasn't delayed—it took about a half-second to execute. It wasn't excessive—it was one motion and he did nothing else. And it certainly wasn't prolonged or choreographed.
In fact, Cosby's dive was the exact opposite. It was a split-second, unplanned reaction to an incredible play that changed the course of his and his teammates' season. It was a moment if genuine excitement.
And for this, the Fiesta Bowl referees gave the other team a chance to undo everything he had accomplished.
If Ohio State had managed to kick a game-tying field goal, it wouldn't have been the first team this season that a questionable excessive celebration penalty altered the outcome of a college football game. Just ask Washington quarterback Jake Locker.
In an early-season matchup against BYU, the Huskies found themselves down by seven with under 10 seconds remaining. That is, until Locker scampered into the end zone from three yards out, with a mere two seconds showing on the clock.
Overcome with excitement, Locker quickly flipped the ball up in the air and started jumping around with his teammates. He had scored the game-tying touchdown.
Then the flag fell.
"Unsportsmanlike conduct on the offense, excessive demonstration. Fifteen-yard penalty will be enforced during the point-after try…"
This poor call would have dire effects, as BYU went on to block the ensuing 35-yard "extra point" attempt. Locker didn't score the game-tying touchdown after all. His team lost, 28-27.
All because Jake Locker threw the football up in the air after making what may very well have been the biggest play of his life.
There's a problem here. It's another case of NCAA hypocrisy.
The excessive celebration penalty is supposed to enforce good sportsmanship. It's supposed to make sure players don't get out of line. It's supposed to make sure they treat their opponents with respect.
It doesn't.
Instead, seasoned coaches like Bob Stoops leave their starters in late in games during blowouts, calling pass plays to intentionally run up the score so that their teams can fare better in the polls. Nobody throws a flag then.
In the meantime, college students like Quan Cosby and Jake Locker get penalized for having genuine moments of excitement.


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|Regulations about schemes.
| 122. - (1) The appropriate national authority may by regulations make further provision with respect to-
| (2) The regulations may in particular make provision with respect to-
|Guidance about schemes.
| 123. - (1) The appropriate national authority may issue guidance concerning the carrying out by local transport authorities and metropolitan district councils of their functions under this Part in relation to quality partnership schemes.
| (2) Those authorities and councils must have regard to any such guidance.
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|Quality contracts schemes.
| 124. - (1) A local transport authority, or two or more such authorities acting jointly, may make a quality contracts scheme covering the whole or any part of their area, or combined area, if they are satisfied that-
| (2) A quality contracts scheme may not be made unless the authority or authorities-
| (3) A quality contracts scheme is a scheme under which-
| (4) In this Part "quality contract", in relation to a quality contracts scheme, means an agreement entered into under section 130 or 131 under which-
| (5) A quality contract may be made on terms-
| (6) Section 88(1) of the Transport Act 1985 (application to subsidy agreements of sections 89 to 92 of that Act) does not apply in relation to quality contracts.
| (7) The authority or authorities must keep under review the extent to which quality contracts entered into by them are complied with.
| (8) In carrying out their functions under this Part in relation to quality contracts schemes, local transport authorities must co-operate with one another.
| (9) In considering whether to make a quality contracts scheme, a local transport authority must have regard to the desirability, in appropriate cases, of making a scheme jointly with another authority.
|Notice and consultation requirements.
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| (2) The notice must-
| (3) After giving notice of the proposed scheme, the authority or authorities must consult-
| (4) For the purpose of subsection (3)(d) the following are relevant local authorities-
| (5) The authority or authorities may modify the proposed scheme following those consultations.
|Approval of proposed scheme.
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| (2) The application must include-
| (3) Any person consulted under section 125(3) may make written representations to the appropriate national authority about the scheme.
| (4) The appropriate national authority may approve the proposed scheme, with or without modifications, if it is satisfied that-
| (5) If the appropriate national authority proposes to approve the scheme with modifications, it must first inform the authority or authorities and they must-
| (6) After being informed of that outcome the appropriate national authority may approve the scheme either with those modifications or without modifications.
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One boy's journey of change and coping with crisis
Sashko* and his mom were leaving Luhansk in a deadly haste. They didn't even manage to gather the necessary belongings and documents. The biggest loss was having to leave his cosy home, beloved school and closest friends. The 15-year-old teen hadn't yet come to terms with having to give up his promising ballroom dancing career due to health issues. International competitions and hopes for a future as a professional dancer were over. And now another painful loss - having to flee to a different part of the country thousands of kilometres away from his home. As a result, Sashko closed off from the outside world, not willing to talk to anybody. It seemed to him that everything went completely wrong and that life had no sense.
Psychologists say that Sashko missed his first sessions for internally displaced children and avoided all their attempts to talk to him. But eventually, psychologists' genuine desire and professional tactics did their job – the ice broke and Sashko managed to open up. After one week, individual and group sessions finally helped Sashko to recover, reduce stress and anxiety, and simply recharge. Sashko's mother Iryna is happy to see her son smile at last. The boy started to enjoy the world around and his eyes are full of joy and hope again.
A UNICEF assessment conducted in Donetsk oblast found that around half of children aged 7-18 had been directly exposed to adverse events related to the unrest in Eastern Ukraine. In particular, they witnessed tanks or military vehicles, fights, people they know being injured and people threatening others with guns. Some children saw people being killed.
UNICEF, in partnership with NGO's from Western Ukraine, provides psychosocial support to internally displaced children and their families, who fled from Eastern Ukraine and Crimea. Such activities help both children and adults to deal with their traumatic experiences, as well as to integrate into the communities that host them. In Lviv, UNICEF has provided assistance to 140 children and their families via individual and group therapy. Besides having their level of stress reduced, children have improved their levels of concentration and fine motor skills through this support.
At the moment it is unclear where Sashko's family is going to start their new life. Since Sashko's health condition requires on-going qualified medical care, he and his parents hope to find a new home in or around a city. On top of that, he finds it difficult to find common ground with his relatives and close friends remaining in Luhansk regarding the situation in Ukraine. Yet Sashko's mom is happy that her son managed to cope with the crisis and believes in a better tomorrow again. "The boy has changed so much, his face is simply shining. These changes are so big that they cannot go unnoticed," – said psychologist Tatyana who has worked with Sashko. Although many challenges lay ahead for the family resettling into a new place and adapting to changes, Tatyana is confident that Sashko has overcome his main crisis.
Recent events in the country, including armed conflict and geopolitical changes in Crimea and the Eastern region, have caused tens of thousands of people to leave their homes. They experience traumatic events, economic constraints, safety issues, violence and the loss of loved ones, and are forced to relocate. Children are highly sensitive to such events, as they might not yet have the coping mechanisms or understanding to handle the situation.
In addition to providing psychosocial support to children and families, UNICEF is facilitating training sessions in specialized therapy techniques for psychologists, social workers, school counsellors and teachers to enable them to work with displaced children and families. The current projects are short-term, 3-5 months, to provide IDP children and their parents with the necessary support for the summer period and the transition into the school year.
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What's good y'all. It's already August? No shit? Wow, this year is going by fast. Before you know it, the leaves will be turning, the air will be a changin' and football will be on the big screen. I can't fucking wait.
This week is going to be tricky. I moved to a new townhouse over the weekend, but still don't have internet. I need to put together the computer desk I bought as well as get the internet hooked up, all this while working 40-50 hours this week at my nine to five. So not sure how that is going to effect the blog. I'll try to stay on track, but it's hard to say how this week will go. I gotta make sure I get the new WYDU office set up (meaning my spare bedroom).
It's a good time to catch up on the WYDU Classics that I've missed for June and July. We'll play catch up and get Augusts up as well. For this one, June's, it's just really a bunch of stuff I've downloaded else where that I've really enjoyed. Pretty much all the tracks on here are of the somewhat obscure and fairly new to myself so I'm not going to go to deep into their histories all that much. Just download and listen, most everything is from the 90′s…..
WYDU Classics June 09
01 UMCs – Never Never Land (Remix)
02 Juggaknots – Generally
03 Kid n Play – Slippin (Large Professor Remix)
04 E-Bros – A Toast
05 El Fudge – Realise
06 Deuces Wild – Five Times the Rhymer
07 Fugatives From Hell – Nuthin But The Bluz
08 Rugged Brood – Look Out
09 Slaughterhouse Cartel ft DJ Moe Love – Gun Clappin
10 Two Outta Millions – Land Of Lyricism
11 Da Funk – You Can Come And Get Done1
12 Rahsun – I'll Be Around ft.Big Pun
13 Sacredhoop – Retired
14 Louie Rankin – Typewriter ft. Red Hot Lover Tone
15 Lyrical Professor – Two Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
16 Tony Bones – Come Inside
17 Success-N-Effect – Roll It Up (Bass Kickin Beats)


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CRITICS OF A PLAN by Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) that would allow the state to take over chronically failing schools argue that local officials should be given more time to get things right. Never mind that these schools have been pretty bad for a pretty long period or time. Or that the one thing students in these abysmal classrooms can ill-afford is more time. Mr. McDonnell's plan may be in need of some fine-tuning, but he is clearly right in insisting on real consequences for schools that habitually cannot meet targets for student achievement.
Legislation that would create a statewide school division to oversee chronically low-achieving schools is up for final reading in both houses Wednesday. The proposal is part of Mr. McDonnell's ambitious agenda this year for education reform, which also includes a new A-to-F grading system for schools and the removal of barriers that have kept Teach for America from operating in the state. "Common-sense, results-oriented and student-focused" is how a governor's spokesman characterized the changes.
Provoking the most controversy has been the proposal to establish a statewide Opportunity Educational Institution that would take over schools unable to meet state accreditation requirements for three consecutive years. Four schools, including Jefferson-Houston Elementary School in Alexandria, are currently eligible, and two more, on the state warning list, are threatened. Modeled after programs that have proved successful in Michigan and Louisiana, the proposal would give the new state division the power to make personnel decisions, bring in turnaround experts or contract with charter networks or institutions of higher learning in managing the schools, actions that local school officials are unwilling or unable to do. Not only would Virginia be able to do more than plead and prod but the change would also put all schools on notice that there will be consequences for failure.
School improvement won't come overnight and there is no magic wand. That's why the means for implementing this plan are crucial; local communities will need to be involved. There are details to work out, and additional attention should be paid to whether the financing, a shift of local tax dollars to the state with no additional investment, could shortchange some of the very schools in need. But to suggest, as is being argued by opponents in the Senate, that the plan be put on hold and "studied" for another year is to ignore the urgency of change for schools where, year after year, students who can't read, write and do math dwarf the numbers of those who can. Mr. McDonnell is correct: "The time for tolerance of failing schools is over."


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I'm not sure how this month snuck up on me and is now almost over. Although September in West Texas doesn't necessarily mean it is getting any cooler it does mean that my hubby is off in the woods hunting for weeks on end. So that means I bust out all my fall decor and dive into my favorite season. I changed it up a little this year and went kind of simple. No orange and red garlands everywhere or elaborate place settings on the table. Just lots of pumpkins and antlers {or more antlers I should say}.
I think my favorite spot this autumn is going to be my front porch. I have been spending almost every rainy morning the last week here reading and drinking lots of decaf coffee. By the way, if you haven't ready Crash the Chatterbox grab a copy ASAP!


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Credit Rating Agencies Have Been Botching Some Important Ratings
When it comes to your hospital or health system credit rating, most CFOs do everything they can to try to get, or keep, a AAA rating. But really, what does that rating truly mean? Maybe it shouldn't mean that much.
Banks, and a host of investors, use these ratings to help guide them in their lending and investing practices but when the ratings are wrong their mistakes can misdirect a lot of people. Thanks to a host of bad predictions by ratings agencies and some rather nefarious activities by many large corporations in the finance industry, the economy took a bit of a turn and with it so did many businesses, hospitals, and investors.
To be fair, the rating agencies—of which there are 10, but three are the most well-known and used (Standard and Poor's, Moody's and Fitch)—aren't always wrong in their analysis and rating. Nevertheless, it seems in the last ten years the ones they have been wrong about have cost all of us dearly—financially. See my other column if you want to read more about that.
I have worked in finance and I have worked in publishing and I can tell you that both industries have their pluses and minuses. But one thing I didn't enjoy about finance was all the SEC compliance rules. They are truly a pain point for many working in the industry, but they are a necessary evil. That is until you realize that it's mostly toothless paperwork that's mostly filed by the honest minions while the less-than-honest folks are still doing whatever they can to earn a buck.
I suppose it shouldn't surprise me, or any of you, to learn that after the banking industry was investigated and many of them were found to be conducting business in a less-than above board manner, that now the investor's rating agencies are about to undergo scrutiny. It's important for healthcare financial leaders to be aware of how some pending legislation and legal actions might influence investor ratings in the years to come. But first, allow me to make a wild prediction—not an accusation—investigators are going to find out that ratings agencies may have been more flexible with some ratings scores than with others. Are you shocked? I doubt it.
I hate to be a pessimist, but it seems to me that money has a tendency to encourage folks to do the wrong thing. I'm not sure what happened to the moral backbones that people used to have, but it seems a lot of people would rather walk "easy street" than take in the view from the "high road"—and a lot of those people seem to gravitate toward the finance industry.
There is a fantastic article in CFO magazine this month about the credit rating disaster. Take the time to read it and educate yourself on what's going on behind the scenes—it's history that is worth reading, but not worth repeating.
The CFO magazine article recounts numerous examples of how Standard and Poor's and Moody's Investors Service have flubbed their ratings reviews for various large companies (e.g., giving Enron an investment grade credit days before it went into bankruptcy, and let us not forget about these agencies stellar predictions for mortgage-backed securities). What's always surprising to me is how they can get it so wrong, but there aren't any ramifications.
With so many people dependent on these reports, shouldn't they be more consistently correct? If a heart surgeon continually told all his patients that they were going to live long full lives, but after the surgery only half of them lived a week, I'm sure he would be fired and sued. Let's just say that as far as their educated predictions go, neither rating agency has been accurate enough lately to get a job as a fortune-teller at the circus. Is that harsh? Not when you consider how many millions of people count on these ratings and how many billions of dollars have been lost in the past few years because of their misplaced optimism (translation AAA ratings) with various large companies and banks.
As a hospital leader, you know how important outcomes are. Patients arrive at your hospital looking for help, you explain things and then give them a general prediction of the results for their treatment. Now, those "odds," for lack of a better term, aren't always right, but more often than not things go according to plan and the desired outcomes are achieved. If that wasn't the case, your hospital would be out of business, or at the very least it would be waist deep in malpractice suits.
Then again, your end goal is to make a specific person well vs. the rating agencies' goal of making money for themselves. That profit motive is their primary motivator. Now, if you are motivated to make a profit, then you are motivated to find the biggest source of money to get that profit. NEWSFLASH—the biggest source of money isn't Ma and Pa Store Owner on Main Street who is looking to invest a little money for their retirement. Nope, it's Mr. Fat Cat Big Business, the companies that need the ratings to entice Ma and Pa to invest in the first place. The ratings agencies shouldn't be allowed to profit by working with these companies.
The CFO magazine article notes that while Moody's has a compliance group to enforce laws and internal policies, a former employee testified to a House committee that the "credit policy group was routinely overridden by line managers in the name of winning business, while the compliance group was understaffed and had little professional compliance experience."
Shouldn't these agencies be required to be impartial and nonprofit? Moreover shouldn't they be run like Consumer Reports, where they operate based on paid subscriptions from the consumer, which makes them accountable to them for their results?


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In April, MTV will begin airing "Ke$ha: My Crazy, Beautiful Life," a series that offers an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look?into the life of?pop music's?favorite filthy whore.
And if you think this show is yet another attempt by a vainglorious celeb to show off their unique blend of?fabulosity and groundbreaking talent disarmingly combined with a beguiling down-to-earthiness, you are quite wrong.
This is Kesha basking in her own nastiness, shrieking: "Look at me! I'm so crazy, so edgy, so nasty! You've never seen anything like it before! Except in every single one of my music videos!"
The clip from the show that MTV?released to entice viewers features Kesha taking bites of cannoli and then dropping the chewed-up mouthfuls, mama bird-style, into the mouths of her friends. It's pretty gross … though not quite as repellent as watching Kesha drink her own pee, which she also does on the show. (For the record, drinking pee is not a good idea. It's dehydrating as well as demoralizing.)
The show's footage was shot over the last two-and-a-half years by Kesha's little brother. Promoting the show, Kesha boasted:
?[The show has] all the things you would want to see and all the things you wouldn't really want to see."
She goes on, but I'll cut her off there and wonder aloud why, if she already knows that we wouldn't really want to see the footage, then why is she showing it to us? She's not the best PR person.
From there she lists the following activities that the lucky viewing audience will get to see her doing on the show:
"… making out with dudes, drinking my own pee, jumping out of a building, jumping out of aeroplanes, swimming with sharks.?
To my mind, that list is not especially compelling. Making out with dudes … great. I'm all for it, though ideally she would have a shower first and brush her teeth properly. Drinking your own pee … no, thank you. Why would I want to watch someone do that? It's nauseating to even think about. Jumping out of a building and out of planes, and swimming with sharks … those do not sound like terribly wise choices, but go for it. Undoubtedly, lots of dirty, sexy, glittery hilarity will ensue.
Why didn't her brother film her fucking a ghost? Apparently she likes to and I would have watched that.
Despite being?scruffy, rude, and probably riddled with communicable illnesses, Kesha is strangely likable. For better or worse, what you see on her show will not be?sanitized and high gloss like Beyonce's HBO doc, for instance … but it will be much more honest.?And it will?be really gross.


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how pretentious
Digging: Weezer - Pacific Daydream
Album Rating: 4.0"what is the target market here"
That's a very boxed in way of looking at music, my friend. This isn't politics... it's just a form of expression for anyone to enjoy. Some artists do treat it like a political scheme, but I rather not bother with them. Dege isn't one of them.
im not saying ur gay but i think youd hold it in ur mouth til it went limp
Album Rating: 4.0Ah, I see who I'm talking to now. Don't tarnish this page with your bullshit.
i was just trying to gauge if id dig it booker t styl but i can see im not wanted here :*[
You took a great direction with this review's end, man. Very nice job.
Album Rating: 4.1Thanks Jacob, I'm glad you like it
Basically anybody who's got an ear for southern style, mainly acoustic guitar playing would dig this is the simple answer.
Album Rating: 4.0this is amazing..
Album Rating: 4.0and lol at cosmic pie
Cool review man. I've never heard of this guy before.
Digging: Rina Sawayama - RINA
Album Rating: 4.1It's only one guy actually. It's also in Americana style like that last album you reviewed, so you might like this. The main focus is on Dege's guitar playing and there aren't too many supplemental instruments used, but I still think you could get into this.
It sounds good, definitely much more upbeat side of Americana than Man's Gin.
Album Rating: 4.0"and lol at cosmic pie"
That hurts my feelings.
Girl who wept stones. There's some gnarly imagery for y'all.
Dege legg fucking rules. m/
Album Rating: 4.0http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2013/10/07/mp3-at-3pm-brother-dege-2/
new song. i'm very excited for this new album. thank you magnus for introducing me to this man.
Album Rating: 4.0Haha, what a jerk-off I was on this page. My post come off much different when I reread them. Fuck it, my bad, and Dege is sweet. New album should be cool.
Album Rating: 4.0Nah it's foxxy who was being a dick, you just owned him
New one will be great, the t/t is awesome
Album Rating: 4.1
new song. i'm very excited for this new album. thank you magnus for introducing me to this man
Album Rating: 4.0All of you people are completely missing out by not checking out Santeria (Dege's southern rock band), Year of the Knife is better than any of his solo stuff.
Check it while you wait for the new one ;)
Album Rating: 4.0Agreed. Santeria is awesome. Are they still together?
Bands: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


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LOS GATOS (CBS NEWS) – The ladies of Litchfield are back.
Los Gatos-based Netflix has released a trailer for the second season of its acclaimed series "Orange is the New Black," featuring new footage from the upcoming episodes.
In the video, Piper (Taylor Schilling) gets out of solitary and new inmate Vee Parker (Lorraine Toussaint) — who apparently has some history with Red (Kate Mulgrew) — arrives at the prison.
The show returns to Netflix on June 6, with all 13 episodes debuting on the streaming service at once for your binge-watching pleasure.
Watch the exclusive preview on CBSNews.com


text: I have my heart set on a recipe of orange roughy prepared with a sauce of fennel, onion and tomato. I searched for fennel in two different grocery stores without success. What do think a good substitute would be for the fennel bulb? The recipe calls for a low and slow sauté of the onions and fennel. I have celery and napa cabbage in my frig. What if I combine that with some fennel seeds? Any other ideas? I have never cooked with fennel before.


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In exactly a year, Canadian rowers Darcy Marquardt and Jane Rumball hope to be churning toward a gold medal in the Olympic final at Beijing, China.
Londoner Bridget Moran will be at home watching the reigning world pair champs but she'll have a pretty good idea exactly what they're going through and how they're feeling.
While Marquardt and Rumball are currently in Slovenia training for the world rowing championships later this month in Germany, Moran just returned home from the junior worlds held up as a test event for the Shunyi Rowing-Canoe Park -- Beijing's site for rowing at the Olympics.
"It's really cool that I've already had the chance to row there -- with the beautiful venue and the set-up and the busloads of volunteers brought in, it made it feel just like we were competing at the Olympics," the 18-year-old Mother Teresa grad said.
"There were so many volunteers. They all wore orange so they were easy to pick out if you had to ask them for something. Most of them knew the English basics and they couldn't have been more friendly."
Moran teamed up with Mississauga's Samantha Sartor to finish seventh in the pairs B final. The Canadian crew worked out in Shanghai to recover from jet lag and adjust to the stifling heat and poor air before attacking the man-made Beijing course. "We did pretty well -- we only had a month to row together and we were competing against teams who row together all the time," she said. "It was hot, incredibly humid and the air was so thick you could see the pollution. After that, it was good to get back and breathe in the nice Canadian air. It's not going to be easy at the Olympics, especially for marathoners and triathletes -- they're going to have a lot of fun. I don't think it will matter as much for rowing. You just have to get used to it."
Marquardt and Rumball will worry about Beijing after qualifying a Canadian boat for the Olympics. That task starts in less than two weeks at Munich with the top eight women's pairs earning their countries a berth in China next summer.
The London-based pair, who won the world title last year at Eton, England, is trying to get the job done now rather than resorting to a last-chance qualifier in Switzerland next June. If the two need that second shot, they risk having nothing left for the biggest event.
The women's eight, which includes stalwart cox Lesley Thompson-Willie, will be involved in a competitive fight at Germany to book a berth to China. Only five boats get guaranteed Olympic spots from worlds.
Moran, meanwhile, leaves this week for his first semester of school at University of California, where she jumps right back into the rowing season. After the trip to China, it'll be a long time before she complains about food and flights again.
"We brought a ton of peanut butter with us, which was good because they tried to make us some Western food and it didn't quite work out. There really wasn't any whole wheat bread -- it was like pastry. The flights to China . . . extremely long. We had personal TVs at our seats on the way there but we didn't have them on the way back. I just tried to catch up on a lot of missed sleep."
Men Heavyweight
Eight: Kyle Hamilton, Adam Kreek, Dominic Seiterle, Malcolm Howard, Jake Wetzel, Andrew Byrnes, Ben Rutledge, Kevin Light, Brian Price (cox).
Four: Barney Williams, Rob Gibson, Peter Dembicki, Scott Frandsen.
Quad: Steve Van Knotsenburg, Jamie Faris, Gabe Bergen, Rob Weitemeyer.
Coxed pair: Kip McDaniel, Derek O'Farrell, Brian Price (cox).
Pair: Chris Jarvis and Dan Casaca.
Coaches: Mike Spracklen, Terry Paul, Allison Dobb
Four: Liam Parsons, Mike Lewis, Jon Beare, Iain Brambell.
Double: Doug Vandor, Matt Jensen.
Pair: John Sasi, Terry McKall (spare)
Single: Tim Colson (spare)
Coaches: Bent Jensen, Howie Campbell
Women Heavyweight
Eight: Heather Mandoli, Ashley Brzozowicz, Kaylan Vander Schilden, Sabrina Kolker, Romina Stefancic, Katie Reynolds, Buffy Williams, Sarah Bonikowsky, Lesley Thompson-Willie (cox).
Four: Anna-Marie de Zwager, Krista Guloien, Janine Hanson, Rachelle de Jong.
Pair: Darcy Marquardt, Jane Rumball, Zoe Hoskins, Andreanne Morin
Coaches: Carsten Hassing, Michelle Darvill
Double: Lindsay Jennerich, Tracy Cameron
Single: Melanie Kok (spare)
Coach: Laryssa Biesenthal


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BUENOS AIRES, April 24 (Reuters) - Argentina's Congress gave final approval on Thursday to pay Repsol $5 billion in bonds to compensate the Spanish oil giant for the 2012 nationalization of Argentine energy company YPF.
The lower house of Congress passed the compensation plan by an early-morning vote of 135 to 59 following a marathon debate that started Wednesday noon. The plan had already been approved by Argentina's Senate and Repsol's board.
The settlement - pending since the government seized 51 percent of YPF from former parent Repsol two years ago - is vital to Argentina's effort to attract investment to develop its promising Vaca Muerta shale oil and gas formation.
"It is invaluable to have concluded this settlement in a friendly way," government-allied congressman Mario Metaza said during the debate.
A U.S. Department of Energy report has shown that Argentina has more natural gas trapped in shale rock than all of Europe at 774 trillion cubic feet, which could transform the outlook for Western hemisphere supply. The country's shale gas reserves lag only those of China and the United States.
Confronted by falling dollar reserves, a weakening economy and inflation of more than 30 percent, Argentina has in the past three months made overtures to international investors by reversing some of the populist policies that defined President Cristina Fernandez's first six years in office.
Since January, the government has cut heating gas subsidies, let the local peso currency devalue by 18 percent and revamped inflation reporting to more accurately reflect consumer prices. Fernandez's final term in office ends in late 2015.
Investors, long put off by her antagonism toward big business, are interested in Argentina again and hoping that more pragmatic policies and prudent state spending bolster reserves and slow one of the world's highest inflation rates.
Chevron Corp this month doubled down on its investment in Vaca Muerta, saying it and YPF plan to spend an extra $1.6 billion on new wells and exploration projects.
Reporting by Hugh Bronstein and Alejandro Lifschitz


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This is OpenBSD's nc(1), featuring cleaner code, an interface
compatible with *hobbit*'s netcat, and IPv6 support.
Please note that despite the port/package name, this installs as bin/nc!
No installation instructions: this port has been deleted.
The package name of this deleted port was: obnc
PKGNAME: obnc
distinfo: There is no distinfo for this port.
There are no ports dependent upon this port
No options to configure
Number of commits found: 11
Remove net/obnc: A new version of this port is available from base system.
dd@ has had his port bit taken for safekeeping. Therefore, return these
to the pool.
Hat: portmgr
Mark DEPRECATED, this is available from the base system.
Personally I think this should be removed because all
supported branches now have nc(1) in base system.
PR: ports/103209
Approved by: maintainer timeout (5+ months)
Approved by: krion@
Add size data.
Approved by: maintainers
Use PLIST_FILES (bento-tested, marcus-reviewed).
Implement an option -o ("Once only") that allows this netcat utility
to terminate at the first EOF condition on local input (as opposed to
waiting for the network end to shut down). Can be useful when talking
to network servers that never drop the connection on their end, like
an port 9100 printer server in my case.
I've also submitted that to the OpenBSD maintainer, so in case they
accept, we can later on undo my local patch.
Approved by: dd (maintainer)
Clear moonlight beckons.
Requiem mors pacem pkg-comment,
And be calm ports tree.
E Nomini Patri, E Fili, E Spiritu Sancti.
Update to 2002/02/22 snapshot.
Add support for specifying an IPsec policy.
Add Yet Another incarnation of netcat to the ever-growing ports tree. This one
is a rewrite by one of the OpenBSD folks, and features cleaner code and IPv6
support (which neither of the others have).
Servers and bandwidth provided byNew York Internet, SuperNews, and RootBSD
No vulnerabilities have been reported in the past 14 days
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All vulnerabilities


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Jul. 23, 2008) -- Space Discovery Institute classes began this week in Charles County, Md. Working with the Charles County Board of Education, the Space Foundation is teaching courses on "Astronomy Principles for the Classroom," "Rocketry and the Biology of Living in Space," "Biological and Physical Research," and "Earth Systems Science" from July 21 - August 1. These interactive, hands-on courses utilize proven teaching strategies designed to provide educators with experience, knowledge, and content that is instantly transferable into the classroom. Team members from the Space Foundation's Washington, D.C., office joined the Charles County Space Discovery Institute for the first day of the program. Presenting in "Rocketry and the Biology of Living in Space," the Washington team spoke about the global space industry, the economic impact of space activities, space activities in the U.S. and internationally, as well as how space-related policy and law is developed and executed. These presentations gave participating teachers a broad contextual foundation for modern space activities and the content they will be learning throughout the week.
For additional information about Space Foundation education programs, visit www.SpaceFoundation.org/education.
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On the road to success, there are many different people that play an important role in not only the journey of a rising songwriter or artist, but budding music industry professionals as well. Because of this need to rely on others for help and expertise, it is paramount for songwriters, artists, and industry professionals alike to have competent counsel who can guide them in their unchartered territory.
In the world of music, nothing is more important than a song. The unique lyrics, melody, and composition of each song are rich currency to a bevy of consumers that make up the music industry. And as commodities, they deserve diligent protection.
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Round two of the Dick Henderson Memorial Bridge will happen Friday morning at 10 a.m.
The Nitro side of the bridge will be blown up.
At 8:30 a.m., police will shut down Center Street going towards the bridge from Route 25.
Route 25 will still be open, but no traffic will be allowed onto Center Street, according to police.
At 9:30 a.m., there will be no traffic allowed between Holly and Blackwood Streets, between the railroad tracks and the river, according to police. This includes foot traffic.
Authorities said the best place to view the blast will be from Roadside Park in Saint Albans.
There will also be a special area for the public to see the blast near Center Street, just off of Route 25.
At 9:55 a.m., people will hear siren blasts. At 9:58 a.m., there will be a two minute warning.
The detonation will happen promptly at 10 a.m.
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Saying that his party's rivals in the race for governor are silent on an effort by Democrats and unions to "subvert" the Republican primary, Bruce Rauner's campaign is blasting his fellow GOP candidates for not speaking out.
In a press release Monday, the Rauner campaign says their candidate's main rivals—state senators Kirk Dillard and Bill Brady, along with state treasurer Dan Rutherford—are essentially condoning what Rauner says are "tricks, games and campaign schemes" by Pat Quinn, the Democratic Party and labor union allies to influence the GOP primary.
From the release:
It has been widely reported in news outlets including the Associated Press, Chicago Sun-Times and Capitol Fax that Pat Quinn's Democratic Party and labor union allies - a coalition that has invested $10 million in Quinn's political career - are threatening to spend millions of dollars in this year's Republican Primary trying to pick the GOP nominee for governor who they think will be easiest to beat in November.
In the release, Rauner campaign manager Chip Englander got even more specific:
"Republican primary voters deserve to know whether Bill Brady, Kirk Dillard, and Dan Rutherford are working together with Pat Quinn and his allies to try to hijack the Republican primary," said Chip Englander, campaign manager for Bruce Rauner. "Will they side with grassroots Illinois Republicans who want to choose our party's nominee, or will they side with Pat Quinn's efforts to attack Bruce Rauner?"
Rauner, a wealthy Winnetka businessman, has long made attacking "union bosses" and special interests a centerpiece of his campaign. And, in many ways, he's right: many union allies have indicated they plan on spending heavily to defeat Rauner in the March primary, seeing how he has attacked specific unions, such as the Chicago Teachers Union, and opposed many policies union members support.
As well, Gov. Quinn has long relied on union support, a strategy that has not exactly failed him of late:
In December, Quinn hauled in more than $450,000 from political funds affiliated with national unions based in Washington, D.C., or Maryland: the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ($150,000); the United Association, a labor union of plumbers and pipe fitters ($100,000); the International Union of Painters and Affiliated Trades ($100,000); and the Laborers' International Union of North America ($130,600).
However, the Tribune analysis also showed the race was essentially coming down to "organized labor versus Chicago's corporate elite", at least when it comes to fundraising.
Rauner, a former chairman of Chicago-based private equity firm GTCR, has cultivated his top donors through longtime friendships as well as business deals and his advocacy for charter schools.
Those who have donated $100,000 or more to Rauner include billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin ($250,000); billionaire Morningstar founder Joe Mansueto, who said he met Rauner in the 1980s when he briefly worked at Golder Thoma & Co., now GTCR ($105,300); Edgar "Ned" Jannotta Jr., [and more].
If anything, it would seem the calls to keep outside, big-money influences out of the GOP primary could go both ways.


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There's a time & place for everything.
I've walked into a bar with an axe, and have had everyone oohing & ahing over the hardware ... The bar was the Welcome Inn, in Fort Bragg California. The axe was my latest forging, a throwing axe. Several days later, I came in second at the Paul Bunyan Days competition.
And that's just the sharps ... I couldn't tell you how many times I've walked into a bar with my Precision Big Block ;-)


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We have long found the prints of Katsuyuki Nishijima entrancing. He shows us the best of Japan, capturing its natural beauty and the architecture of yesteryear that still exists in hidden away in parts of the cities and the countryside. A dazzling panoply of sunsets, mountains, historic thatched farmhouses, old towns, spring blossoms, lakes and rivers and snowy winter scenes appear. No Nishijima prints show living creatures, just architecture and natural beauty.
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Morgan Tuck's defense of the Illinois Ms. Basketball title begins a leg down.
A bulky black brace encases the left knee of the best player on the state's top-ranked team. She occasionally steps to the sideline during Bolingbrook's practices so as not to push the recovery from surgery on her anterior cruciate ligament this summer.


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After several months of increasingly bad news, Netflix finally had some small, but positive info to share yesterday. The company announced that it had extended its current deal with ABC/Disney which will keep all current shows on the service, but will also add some that were previously unavailable. Expected to continue are:
• Prior season episodes of ABC current hit series "Grey's Anatomy," "Desperate Housewives," and "Private Practice"
• All episodes of recent ABC favorites "Lost," "Brothers & Sisters," and "Ugly Betty"
• Prior season episodes of critically-acclaimed "Army Wives" from ABC Studios
• Popular series from ABC Family including "The Secret Life of the American Teenager," "Melissa & Joey," and "Make It or Break It"
• A wide range of content from Disney Channel including series "Phineas and Ferb," " Good Luck Charlie," "The Suite Life on Deck," and "Hannah Montana"
Added to the service are:
• ABC Family's smash hit series "Switched at Birth"
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OAKVILLE, ON, March 12, 2014 /CNW/ - Vicwest Inc. (the "Company") (TSX: VIC, VIC.DB, VIC.DB.A) today announced that it has negotiated a five year, $120 million revolving senior secured Asset Based Lending ("ABL") facility including a $25 million accordion feature, with a syndicate of lenders, co-led by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce ("CIBC") and National Bank of Canada, that includes Royal Bank of Canada and the Bank of Nova Scotia. CIBC will serve as the administrative agent.
The new facility is available to finance working capital, capital expenditures and future acquisitions and replaces the Company's existing $100 million revolving senior credit facility which was subsequently terminated.
"The ABL structure is much better aligned with our business due to both the seasonal nature of our agriculture and building products markets and our working capital requirements. One of the immediate advantages of the ABL is it gives us greater flexibility to purchase raw materials to manage commodity risk in our business, something that was much more restrictive under our prior facility," said Colin Osborne, President and Chief Executive Officer.
The proceeds from the ABL were used to fully repay all outstanding loan balances on the Company's senior revolving credit facility. The senior revolving credit facility was subsequently terminated.
"We are very pleased with the support received from the banking community and the confidence our lending partners have expressed in our business," said Rod Crawford, Chief Financial Officer. "We look forward to the liquidity and flexibility available to us through the ABL as we drive growth and operating performance in the business."
Vicwest Inc. is a leading manufacturer and distributor of engineered storage and handling systems for grain, fertilizer and liquid storage as well as building construction products for agriculture, commercial, industrial and residential markets. We operate through two strategically aligned divisions: Vicwest Building Products and Westeel. With approximately 7,000 customers, 1,200 dedicated employees and 34 business partners, we are positioned for growth in domestic and international markets. Vicwest Inc. is a member of the S&P/TSX SmallCap Index. For more information, visit www.vicwestinc.com.
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