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Rio de Janeiro's Joao Havelange Olympic Stadium, which was scheduled to host athletics at the 2016 games, will have to undergo roof repairs, the city's mayor said.
The stadium, completed less than six years ago, is currently the city's main football venue while the Maracana is rebuilt for this year's Confederations Cup and the 2014 World Cup.
Although the Joao Havelange stadium was due to host the athletics in 2016, the opening and closing ceremonies will both take place at the Maracana.
The upgrade of the Maracana is also behind schedule, however.
Rio's mayor Eduardo Paes told a news conference: "Today, they informed me that the roof has structural problems.
"I asked if this represented a risk for spectators and they told me it did, depending on the wind speed and temperature.
"On that basis, I immediately decided to close the stadium until we had more details."
Mr Paes added: "It's simply not acceptable that a stadium which was inaugurated such a short time ago now has to face this sort of situation."
The stadium was built for the 2007 Panamerican Games at a cost of 380 million reais (£125m) and opened just one month before the event.
Afterwards, it was leased to local football club Botafogo although it is frequently used by other teams.
The first event to be affected was Wednesday's Carioca championship match between Brazilian champions Fluminense and Macae.
It has not yet been announced what other effects the closure will have.
The England football team were due to play Brazil in Rio de Janeiro on June 2, but the FA said the stadium where that match was due to take place has not yet been confirmed.
The Maracana is due to re-open at the end of April, four months behind schedule.
The capacity of the Joao Havelange stadium was due to be increased from 46,000 to 60,000 ahead of the Olympics.
The stadium is named after Joao Havelange, the Brazilian former president of Fifa and later member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), who has been accused of taking bribes while head of world football.


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ELYRIA — A fired North Ridgeville city employee who has accused a co-worker of raping her is suing the city, saying it was negligent when it hired the man who allegedly attacked her.
The suit doesn't address the victim's wrongful termination claim, but her attorney, John Hildebrand Sr., said that could be tackled in a second suit or added to the lawsuit filed Monday in county Common Pleas Court.
Charles Ralston, the 35-year-old Sheffield Lake resident charged with rape in the June incident, also is named in the suit.
Hildebrand said the city was well aware of Ralston's criminal record when it hired him shortly after he was recommended by Mayor Dave Gillock in 2003. Ralston is the father of two of Gillock's grandchildren.
"The fact is they were negligent when they hired him because they were aware of his criminal past," Hildebrand said.
Ralston previously had been convicted of domestic violence and possession of marijuana.
After the alleged incident, Ralston was fired by the city for admitting to drinking on the job.
He said he had been drinking with the victim in the hours before the alleged attack at the French Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Sheffield, and he has said that he and the woman had consensual sex.
The victim was fired in September after allegedly making death threats against co-workers after being sent home Aug. 31 for not wearing a city uniform to work.
The woman has said she was drinking after she got home and told her brother "if I had a gun, I'd like to kill them." The brother called the Nord Center and the threats eventually filtered back to city officials.
Hildebrand said his client continues to suffer from mental anguish caused by the attack.
Gillock, who is being investigated by the Ohio Ethics Commission for his role in procuring the job for Ralston, declined to comment. North Ridgeville Law Director Andrew Crites said the city did nothing wrong when it hired Ralston.
"If the incident did occur it would have been impossible for the city to predict," he said.
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In a guest essay on The Huffington Post, director Tim Burton picked the 11 of the weirdest holiday art pieces featured in his book, The Art of Tim Burton.
A few of the images featured Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas. Burton explained: "Christmas has always been one of my favorites. I love the gaudy decorations people strew everywhere and the idea of snow before I ever got to experience it. My other favorite is Halloween, and the combination of the two was where the inspiration for The Nightmare Before Christmas came from."
The book features 1,000 illustrations. The standard edition costs $69.99. The $299.99 deluxe edition features a slipcase, a signed lithograph, and Burton's signature on the inside cover.


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Comics and stuff by Pablo Stanley
Thanks for the comic. 1989 will never be forgotten.
Wonderful! Something simple yet deep with meaning and interpretations. Even if not intentionally done so
To the heroes of 1989
Great comic, touched my feelings :0
It's actually Tank Man, from tiananmen square
So great 🙂 Reminds me a great short french film called "j'ai vomi mes cornflakes" (i puked my cornflakes) in wich u can see some1 blocks cars holding bags for fucking the society for a very last time 😀


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A new study by LIMRA looks at the differences between health care and higher education 403(b) retirement plans.
The two market segments together represent $485 billion, or 67 percent, of the 403(b) market, and while both the higher education and healthcare market segments utilize 403(b) plans, higher education plans have a higher participation rate and are more likely to offer a match than health care plans.
The study found that higher education plans also are more likely to use multiple providers.
Health care plans, meanwhile, are more likely to offer a defined benefit plan than their counterparts in higher education. Both market segments are equally likely to offer automatic enrollment, but health care plans are more likely to use automatic deferral escalation.
Half of health care firms and one-third of education firms use an advisor or consultant.
The study also observed a distinction between the objectives of 403(b) plan sponsors compared with 401(k) plan sponsors.
In the survey, 403(b) plan sponsors were more likely to say the primary objective of their plan is to help employees save enough to retire (86 percent). By contrast, about half of 401(k) plan sponsors reported that the primary objective of their plan is to offer a competitive benefit to attract and retain talent.
The 2013 report "Exploring 403(b) Plan Practices and Trends: Healthcare and Higher Education" was conducted by LIMRA with select results from the Boston Research Group's 2012 Defined Contribution Provider survey of the 401(k) industry.


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Researchers track loons with telemetry devices
ST. PAUL - At least six of the 29 loons that have had radio and satellite telemetry devices placed in them by researchers have returned to their breeding lakes in Minnesota, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
One of the loons, known as "M2," returned to Big Mantrap Lake in northern Minnesota March 29.
"This is a very exciting time in science exploration," said Carrol Henderson, supervisor of the DNR's Nongame Wildlife Program. "We have been able to learn more about our fabulous state bird than we have ever known before."
During the last two years, the loons were equipped with satellite transmitters in an effort to study their migratory movements and foraging patterns while migrating.
Most of the loons that are part of this research project left Minnesota in October and spent about a month on Lake Michigan before departing for the Gulf of Mexico in early December.
"Before using the technology of these devices, scientists had no idea that most Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan loons 'stage' on Lake Michigan together before flying south to the gulf," Henderson said.
The satellite transmitters send a signal about every other day that allows researchers to see exactly where the loons are during their travels around the country.
The research project is being done by the Minnesota DNR's Nongame Wildlife Program in cooperation with scientists from the United States Geological Survey and the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center in La Crosse, Wis.
Donations to the Nongame Wildlife fund on Minnesota tax forms helped to fund this project. Funding for the project also comes from the Minnesota Natural Resource's Trust Fund.
More information about Minnesota's loon monitoring program is available on the DNR website.


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RG3 Jokes About Fine by NFL for T-Shirt
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At least Robert Griffin III can laugh about his latest run-in with the NFL's fashion police.
The Washington Redskins quarterback cracked a joke about his $10,000 fine for wearing an "Operation Patience" T-shirt before a preseason game.
Griffin was accepting the team's offensive player of the year award at the Redskins' annual Welcome Home Luncheon.
"Those auctioneers did a good job," Griffin told the crowd. "I would've given them 10 grand, but the NFL took it away from me this week."
Griffin adopted "Operation Patience" as his slogan as he slowly increased his practice work during training camp after major knee surgery. He wore a white T-shirt with those words in capital burgundy letters as he warmed up before the game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. The NFL said the T-shirt was "unauthorized apparel."


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Jimi Hendrix Biopic: Andre 3000 Will Become the Legend
It has long been rumored and more or less assumed that rapper-turned-actor-turned-fashionisto Andre 3000 would play Jimi Hendrix in a biopic about the late guitarist/singer, and now it appears to be official.
All Is by My Side, which will reportedly focus more on Hendrix's early days as a musician and ascent to stardom (but presumably not neglect his 1970 death and the events leading up to it), is currently said to be in pre-production in Ireland. Writer John Ridley (Three Kings, Undercover Brother) will pen the script and make his second attempt at directing.
Andre 3000 (real last name: Benjamin) hasn't rapped as one-half of the hip-hop duo Outkast since 2006's Idlewild — the soundtrack based on Outkast's movie musical of the same name — and hasn't appeared in a film since 2008's Semi-Pro.
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Loon over Miami: The On-Target Humor of Dave Barry
By Peter Richmond; Peter Richmond, a former reporter for The Miami Herald, is a feature writer for The National.
Published: September 23, 1990
The humor community of the kinder and gentler 90's is being swept by waves of touchy-feely caution and cloying cuteness. From network to newsprint, a new timidity abounds. Calvin and Hobbes and Arsenio Hall rule the earth.
Into the void, thank goodness, rushes Dave Barry. In Dave Barry's column, no one is safe, from ''Vice President for Real'' Dan Quayle to Senator Jesse Helms (''R.-Spider Family'') to former President Gerald ''R'' Ford to the citizens of Oklahoma who, after Barry suggested selling their state to Japan to rectify the trade imbalance, besieged him with letters ''containing many correctly spelled words.''
In Dave Barry's column, Gov. Bob Martinez of Florida ''exudes the warm personal charm of a millipede,'' the air-fare wars have produced a new generation of ''Frequent fliers with bare feet and live carry-on chickens,'' and Manuel Noriega is assured a fair trial only if the courts can summon ''12 unbiased jurors with the mental alertness of moist towelettes.''
In Dave Barry's column, we learn that Senator John Glenn ''couldn't electrify a fish tank if he threw a toaster in it,'' that Canada's motto is ''Technically a Nation'' and that the average big-league baseball team consists mostly of ''two dozen guys named Julio from friendly spider-infested nations to the south.''
Happily, some of Barry's sharpest thrusts are reserved for his own ethnicity: ''Wealthy WASP's have less fun in their entire lifetimes,'' he wrote a few months ago, ''than members of other ethnic groups have at a single wedding reception. I have been to both WASP and non-WASP weddings, and your WASP couple can get married, go on their honeymoon, come home, pursue careers, have children and get divorced in less time than it takes for a non-WASP couple to get to the part of their reception where everyone drinks champagne from the maid of honor's brassiere.''
By now, it should be eminently clear that the Barry sword of equal-opportunity insult is wielded with a clear absence of malice, in the spirit of unadulterated - and distinctly un-adult - buffoonery.
Lest there be any misunderstanding, however, Barry is well aware that his broad brush can give offense. ''I realize I am generalizing here,'' he admitted in a recent column, ''but, as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care.''
neither apparently do the rest of us. three hundred newspapers now carry the weekly musings of Dave Barry. ''Mr. Barry is the funniest man in America and we should encourage him,'' The New York Times Book Review has said - just a small sampling of the many accolades he has received. In 1988, Barry won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. In 1989, ''Dave Barry Slept Here,'' a lunatic-revisionist history of the United States (the Wright brothers first flight was canceled because of equipment problems at O'Hare) achieved legitimacy with 11 weeks on the Times best-seller list. And his 10th and latest book, ''Dave Barry Turns 40'' (published by Crown), which delineates the panic of growing fat, bald and slow, has sold nearly 200,000 copies, enjoying lengthy stints on both the Times and Publishers Weekly lists. His surging popularity has led to appearances on Letterman, Carson, Koppel and at the National Tupperware Convention in Orlando, Fla.
From Seattle to Miami, and all stops in between, the nation is eagerly devouring a verbal gumbo that encompasses the burlesque vulgarity of Samurai John Belushi, the indiscriminate insults of Monty Python and the literate lunacy of the original National Lampoon, all tinged by unmistakeable traces of 60's activism. But what else would you expect from a former conscientious objector who played lead guitar for a band called the Phlegmtones?
Millions of American households now have the opportunity to feast on a regular diet of hyperbole (a bureaucrat has ''the I.Q. of a bowl of soup''; Americans have ''thighs the size of research submarines''), one-liners (''Is that [Michael Milken's] real hair? Or is he wearing a Motel 6 bathmat?'') and, of course, Mr. Language Person:
''Dear Mr. Language Person: I am with the Defense Department, and I'd like to know whether it's correct to say 'Four million dollars apiece IS not that much for the B-79 Hellfire Amphibious Assault Salad Bar,' or 'Four million dollars ARE not, etc.'
''A: Does that price include the optional SS-863 Shrieking Eagle Tactical Sneeze Shield? ''Q: Of course not. ''A: I didn't think so.''
Equal parts incisive observer and eighth-grade class clown, Barry may be our best antidote to the ugly sound-bite sensibilities of Eddie Murphy, Sam Kinison and Andrew Dice Clay. Barry's blossoming suggests that more than a few members of the younger generations, wearying of MTVidiocy, have secretly been lusting for the topical humor fix that only the written word can provide. They're finding it - if Barry's sales figures are any indication - in a direct disciple of Robert Benchley, by way of Russell Baker, with pinches of Calvin Trillin, Fran Lebowitz and P. J. O'Rourke.
A Barry column often takes aim at the conventional targets of the conventional columnists, but in a distinctively skewed light, whether he's laying waste to the U.S. Senate (''White Male Millionaires Working for You''), examining current financial trends (''Statistics show that . . . investing your money in the stock market is nearly twice as secure, over the long term, as feeding it to otters'') or critiquing ''The Hubble Orbiting Space Paperweight . . . It would have been cheaper to take a regular telescope and put it on top of an 87-mile-high pile of $50 bills.''


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CAIRO, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- Egypt is seeking a $4.8 billion loan from the IMF to help boost an economy struggling to recover from the pressure of last year's revolution, a minister said.
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde arrived Wednesday in Cairo for meetings with Prime Minister Hesham Kandil and representatives from the Finance Ministry. Meetings are with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi.
Egyptian Finance Minister Momtaza el-Said said Cairo was seeking a $4.8 billion loan to help an economy hurt by the lack of foreign investments since the revolution in 2011, reports Egyptian news agency al-Ahram.
Economic officials told al-Ahram last week that Lagarde would be able to review an Egyptian economic program based on "social justice."
Apart from economic issues, Egypt's security challenges were highlighted by recent militant attacks in the Sinai Peninsula.
Victoria Nuland, a spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department, said there were serious concerns about the security situation in the region. She added, however, that the Egyptians were "enhancing their posture to deal with security threats in Sinai."


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Naturally the Democrats would rather pay millions to the executives that are still running Freddie and Fannie into the ground than accept even this small measure of agreement between parties. The leftists keep bawling for bi-partisanship, yet won't even agree with the smallest of bi-partisan measures.
Democrats don't want "bi-partisanship." They want total control and their voters are fools to imagine anything else.
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San Diego is among western markets likely to perform best in the rental market, John Burns Real Estate Consulting says.
In a bulletin posted on the firm's website, Vice President Peter Dennehy said the "high barriers" to home buying here and in Seattle, San Jose, San Francisco and Orange County make them "among the nation's top-performing rental markets in coming years."
"Development money is flowing into apartments and construction activity is already picking up," he said. "Our apartment feasibility business is growing rapidly and the number of projects we are finding that are on the drawing boards, or with land in escrow at very high prices, is staggering."
He cited figures that building permits for multifamily housing units are up nearly 70 percent in major western markets.
The Construction Industry Research Board reported San Diego County's rate even faster. The January-June total for multifamily units authorized was 764 in the first half of 2010 and 1,643 for the same period this year -- a 115.1 percent rise.
Dennehy said builders are offering a wide variety of rental types, from townhouses and high-rises to "busted condos" being converted to rental status after developers failed to sell them to individual buyers. Some of these condos were built as apartments, converted to condo status and have been converted back to rentals.
He cited as one example the 680-unit Vantage Pointe tower in downtown San Diego that failed as for-sale condo project and is now nearly 80 percent rented out in less than one year.
"The apartment market clearly presents great opportunity in coming years," Dennehy said.
But he said investors and builders will have to balance broad analysis with detailed, location-based studies. They also will have to understand renter options to buy and what the future supply of all housing will look like.


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That work will soon end, however, and on the night of the magician's final performance, Yann's life will truly begin. That's the night he meets shy Sido, an heiress with a cold-hearted father, a young girl who has only known loneliness until now. Though they have the shortest of conversations, an attachment is born that will influence both their paths.
And what paths those will be! While Revolution is afoot in France, Sido is being used as the pawn of a fearful villain who goes by the name Count Kalliovski. Some have instead called him the devil, and only Yann, for Sido's sake, will dare to oppose him.
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I never actually use time to read the book so getting the audiobook saved alot of time. that way I could read by cleaning walking to school eating etc. Im so happy I didn't have to read it myself. And the narrator made different voices for different characters which also was a big help.
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I wanted to purchase the abridged version, which is only available in the U.K. While I don't normally do abridged versions, this one is read by Tom Hiddleston, who is a phenomenal actor. While this version is fine, the narrator is very dry and lacks emotional depth.
I could not stop listening, in the car, getting ready for the day, in bed to sleep. This book left me wanting more. So sad it ended I want a sequel......!!!!!!!
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Energy Future Holdings CEO John F. Young defended the decision not to file for bankruptcy last month and said he still believes the company can reach a deal with creditors next spring to avoid a contentious court fight.
But Young admitted that bringing together so many different creditor groups with different claims on EFH's assets was a tall order.
"We are in the early stages," he said at a meeting this week with The Dallas Morning News editorial board. "Motivations, depending on where you happen to sit in this, are different.… Some of these [groups] are continuing to get interest payments until we shut the spigot off in March. These motivations are hard to get the same."
Texas' largest power company is at the center of an epic battle involving some of the biggest names on Wall Street. It's due to make a balloon debt payment of $3.8 billion next fall. And Young conceded that EFH's auditors were unlikely to sign off on the company's financial health.
A red flag from auditors about the future of the company would trigger immediate default, under terms of its credit agreements. That threat could compel creditors to come together, something last month's $270 million debt payment deadline failed to do, Young said.
"In April and November we were trying to get everyone to come to the table in advance of a trigger for default because we thought it was best for the enterprise. But nobody had to do it," he said. "Now the consequence of not acting is becoming much clearer in everyone's head."
EFH was formed in 2007 when private equity firms led by KKR & Co. bought out what was then TXU Corp. for $45 billion. Since then, power prices have fallen by half. And with roughly $4 billion a year going to interest payments, EFH has been losing money steadily.
Young said the company continues to meet with advisers for its creditors. That group includes everyone from Warren Buffett to the private equity giant Apollo Global Management.
Those talks are focused on working out a deal before the company must file its annual report on March 31. The report must include the auditors' opinion on the company's welfare.
Young said the company continues to talk with creditors about restructuring debt in a way that pushes payments into the future. It pulled off a similar move in 2011.
Young, a mechanical engineer by training who spent five years in the Navy, joined in 2008 after leaving rival Exelon.
Over the hourlong meeting Thursday he reiterated time and again that he believed EFH's core business and safety record had only improved over the last five years and were among the best in the industry. The company's problems stem from its outsized debt and the impact of the hydraulic fracturing boom on natural gas prices, to which electricity rates are tied.
"Where gas prices go, I don't have a lot of control over that," Young said.
Sources close to the company have said Young was eager to avoid any deal that would break up the company and its three subsidiaries, Luminant, TXU Energy and Oncor.
But as CEO, Young is bound by federal law to make decisions in the best interests of the company's owners and creditors. And at Thursday's meeting, he said he would be willing to break up the company if suitors could show "it's in the best interest of the enterprise."
But he said spinning off Oncor would trigger a multibillion-dollar tax bill. Asked about creditors' claims that the company was overstating the tax burden, Young remained firm.
"I got a lot of lawyers that are being paid for those people and I know they will argue lots of things," he said.
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Welcome to the Wellington Sri Chinmoy Centre. We offer free meditation courses throughout the year approximately every month. Please browse this site to find out more about meditation and our classes. Feel free to contact us if you are interested in joining a course.
How do I get started?
Simply fill in our contact form. One of our class co-ordinators will then be in touch with you with all the details you need to begin the next free meditation course available.
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Free 'Learn Meditation' introductory workshop 3 October 2017
Register by texting our class line: 027 871 9690.
You can also speak to one of our tutors by phone: (09)3093437. At the conclusion of this introductory class we will provide details of ongoing weekly practice nights – these are designed to help you deepen your meditation experience and are also free of charge.
When: 3 October, Tuesday, 6:00pm – 8:30pm
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Admission Free – Registration will ensure seating.
This workshop features guest presenter Jogyata Dallas who studied and practised meditation under spiritual master Sri Chinmoy for many years. Author, marathoner and international teacher, Jogyata will be introducing a range of meditation skills – breathing and concentration techniques to still the mind, visualisations, mantras, spiritual heart meditations, an overview of the main yoga paths,'7 secrets of meditation' – and also cover the essentials of establishing a successful home practice. We really look forward to sharing our love of meditation with you!
Welcome to our free Weekly Meditation Practice Sessions for 2017
Register by texting our class line: 0278719690.
You can also speak to one of our tutors by phone: (09)3093437. Our ongoing weekly practice sessions are designed to help you deepen your meditation experience and are free of charge. However if you have not meditated before and would like an introductory class then please speak to our tutors.
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An Interview with Jogyata Dallas, a teacher with the Sri Chinmoy Centre Part 1
Why meditate…what is the purpose?
Well, we nourish our body every day with food with great regularity, but most of us neglect to take care of some of the deeper aspects of ourselves. Meditation nourishes our mind and our soul and the spiritual aspects of our nature which also need constant attention. These shape our whole life experience. People who are peaceful, for example, are not disturbed by life's ups and downs, they have an inner calm and poise. And our happiness – most of our efforts at being happy depend upon external things like better jobs, new relationships, material things, travel plans and so forth, but meditation cultivates an inner happiness that no longer depends on these changing outer things at all…keep reading.
Meditation: An Interview with Jogyata Dallas, a teacher with the Sri Chinmoy Centre Part 2
You're a vegetarian I believe – why?
It's one of those lifestyle changes that can benefit meditators. I became a vegetarian about 40 years ago – it was one of the things my own teacher Sri Chinmoy requested and encouraged. The food we eat has some impact on our inner development, a calm mind and healthy body, and in my case I was amazed how much better I felt. I started running about that time as well, marathons, ultras, and as your wellbeing increases you can really measure and feel the effect of diet on your energy and stamina and life force. We're herbivores, it's only cultural conditioning that makes eating other animals a usual thing…keep reading.
Finding Sri Chinmoy's Meditation Path
At the beginning, all those years ago, I was not really looking for a spiritual Master or a path. Like most people I knew, I was neither very happy nor unhappy, having just arrived from my hometown of Mumbai, India, eager to fulfill my lifelong dream of an overseas education and an independent life.
In New Zealand a nagging backache had started to bother me and I decided to try hatha yoga as a remedy. I called up a few places in the next week or so but found most of these either too expensive or too far away from home. Slightly dejected I remember walking down the main street in downtown Auckland on the way to my lunch shift – the streets were full of office workers rushing to and fro. I remember walking down the hill when I had the sudden and strange sensation of everything slowing down, as though time was suspended. A smiling face suddenly appeared before me, a young man with leaflets in his hand. Just as I was about to walk past him, something in my head said "take what he is offering". The next thing I knew I had this bright blue leaflet in my hand, reading it on my way to work.
As luck would have it, it was a free meditation workshop offered by the Sri Chinmoy Centre. I knew it wasn't the Hatha Yoga that I was looking for, but I intuitively knew of the connection between the body and the spirit and decided to explore this further. When I reflect back on that moment on the street on that long ago day, I can understand the quiet perfection of everything, the role of grace in our lives.
In India they say "when the disciple is ready the Master appears" and that is how it was with me. Why was it that I had been given this opportunity to follow a spiritual path? Swami Vivekananda, one of my country's great spiritual teachers, used to say 'Those who choose the Infinite have been chosen by the Infinite'. I have stopped questioning the reason behind it, but often offer my gratitude to my Guru for the wonderful years I have been fortunate and privileged to spend on his wonderful path. This poem by Sri Chinmoy expresses my feelings well:
'Beyond speech and mind, Into the river of ever-effulgent Light My heart dives. Today thousands of doors, closed for millennia Are opened wide.'
Muslim Badami
The Heart in the New Millennium
Many people believe that human consciousness is on the verge of a pivotal change – from the dominance of the mind to a growing recognition of the importance of the heart. It represents a change so significant that it promises to reshape the very future of mankind, pointing the way…. keep reading
The Olympics: Towards a Oneness-World
The Olympic Games are here. Beginning August 5th with the opening ceremony in the legendary Maracanã Stadium in Rio, 306 medal events are being contested across the 42 Olympic sports disciplines. It's potentially a wonderful time when athletes from 207 countries and audiences from virtually every country on our planet come together in a spirit of friendly competition, forming bonds of friendship that can unite us in a way almost without parallel. …keep reading
She comes in every morning around 3:30 am, the holy hour, for her early three hours of meditation. She is quiet as a falling feather but the old wooden floorboards and creaking joists betray her, creak and sigh as she passes my room. In her hour long walking meditations, her slow circling shuffle around the great room, she claps her hands together …keep reading
Notes From Some Travels in Iceland
Recently a group of musician-friends, some from New Zealand, gathered in Reykjavik to begin a musical tour, singing Sri Chinmoy's songs in churches and old ruins throughout the heartland of this impressive nation………
If you were to try to paint eternity, these landscapes of Iceland would inspire you. They spread out all around you to every horizon, the rumpled splendors of the earth,…keep reading
Campfire Memories
In that brutal bad New Zealand winter of 2002 the worst storm ever recorded charged across the central North Island mountains, burying the forests in meters of snow and sending the few humans crazy enough to be out there in that onslaught fleeing for lonely mountain huts. Marooned by waist high drifts, fallen trees and winds colder than grief they huddled over cheerless fires …keep reading
Bali 2017
Bali, the land of a 1000 temples and a million smiling faces, a truly magical place where nature is so entwined in peoples' existence and where the spiritual and materialistic worlds so effortlessly blend together, creating a perfect symphony of matter and spirit. … keep reading
Silent Teachings
"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we may as well dance.." Old Japanese proverb
My mid-60's birthday is upon me, and with it comes that rather thoughtful and introspective feeling that often accompanies these milestone occasions. … keep reading
Happy Rain
"Over the years" Sri Chinmoy once said, " I have been to a number of countries that follow the teachings of the Lord Buddha, but here in Myanmar I feel that Lord Buddha has a very, very special eye of compassion and a very, very special heart of universal love. Myanmar I feel has a most special place in the heart of Lord Buddha. … keep reading
The Arrival of Summer
Holidays are coming, and soon our centre family will vanish away to relatives in hometowns, to gatherings down-country in small coastal villages, settlements where an uncle owns a seaside bach, an odd ritual here like some seasonal homing instinct, a migratory impulse honed through childhoods of summers.
In these waning months of the year the parklands near my home gather around… keep reading
About Meditation
One of the recurring themes in the writings and legacies of the great spiritual teachers all the way down through time is the accent they each place on the preciousness of a human incarnation, especially one in which there is some kind of spiritual awakening. One of India's teachers spoke of only three real miracles – the rarity of a human birth in this infinitely vast cosmos with its endless possibilities of life; … keep reading
The Indian spiritual master Sri Chinmoy often compared the body to a cage, the soul as the captive bird. Sometimes the cage door might open just a little – a minor illness – and the soul bird would fly away; other times the cage door could be wide open – a grave illness – but the soul bird would stubbornly remain. … keep reading
The Enlightenment Stone
She had always been moved and deeply touched by her Teacher's comments about the spiritual value of giving, and at some heartfelt and intuitive level felt that she really understood what this meant and how it worked in that preternatural inner world where everything connected, …keep reading
Some Meditation Secrets: Part 1
In the great task of finding happiness and peace through meditation, there are some simple, useful things to keep in mind. Some of these are mentioned here: Don't be too concerned with finding the right technique in meditation. Spiritual master Sri Chinmoy once commented that our own souls are our best teacher …keep reading
Some Meditation Secrets: Part 2
- Feel gratitude at the very beginning of your meditation practise. This will remind you that you have reached a very special time in your evolution, and that you are awakening, that there is a quiet perfection behind your life that is giving you this special opportunity. You are among a tiny percentage of humanity opening up to a new consciousness…keep reading
At the Concert
After a lifetime of travel and lifelong encounters with many great human beings – our path took us to so many places, to encounters with so many people – it is a truism for me to say that Sri Chinmoy was, by a very great distance, the greatest person I have ever met. Even after my own 30 years of examining him he was always far over the horizons of my comprehension – … keep reading


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Missed chances haunt A-Rod, Yankees
By Anthony DiComo / MLB.com
Known for his biting split-fingered fastball, Tigers reliever Joaquin Benoit attacked Rodriguez with one ball and one strike. Then came the pitch that the Yankees third baseman could not erase from his memory -- a fastball on the inner half of the plate.
Some two hours later, after Rodriguez fouled off the fastball, ultimately striking out and contributing to his team's season-ending loss in Game 5 of the American League Division Series, someone suggested that Benoit had given Rodriguez a prime pitch to hit.
"Oh," Rodriguez said, raising his eyes to the ceiling. "Did he ever."
It was the only shred of regret that Rodriguez would utter in the wake of the game, a dispiriting defeat that saw the Yankees leave 11 men on base.
"I was waiting for that at-bat all series," Rodriguez said. "I felt like I never had a chance to make a really big difference. That was the one and I came up short."
He was hardly the only culprit. Rodriguez's strikeout in the seventh did not even end the inning; Mark Teixeira walked to force in a run against Benoit, before Nick Swisher whiffed to end the inning. Russell Martin and Brett Gardner both popped out with the bases loaded in the fourth inning, and both Swisher and Jorge Posada made outs with a man in scoring position in the second.
Even Derek Jeter finished 1-for-5 to cap a 6-for-24 postseason in which he left a team-high 18 runners on base, prompting his lamentation that "pitching is what gets teams here and what moves teams along." Good Tigers pitching, in other words, prevented the Yankees from achieving timely hitting. As Yankees manager Joe Girardi added, "they made some huge pitches when they had to."
But because of who he is, because of his name, because of his well-documented struggles and unparalleled successes, Rodriguez became a representative figure of the Yankees' ALDS defeat. He hit just .111 in the series without an extra-base hit, knocking in three runs, walking four times and playing strong defense -- but doing little of significance to aid his team's chances.
In years past following disappointing series such as that, Rodriguez often offered clipped responses to questions and brushed aside criticisms. Not so Thursday. In accepting more than his share of the blame, Rodriguez used expletives to describe his play, offering insight into why he may have struggled.
For so much of the latter part of this season, Rodriguez played through injuries -- a right knee operation, a left thumb injury and nagging soreness in his knee as recently as last week. Though he was quick to dismiss his health as the reason for his struggles, Rodriguez did admit that he played out October at something less than 100 percent.
"Whatever happened this postseason is on me," Rodriguez said. "Let's make that crystal clear. There are no excuses for what happened these five games. I was healthy enough to do whatever I had to do."
"Players aren't going to make excuses," Girardi said. "Neither am I. The bottom line is we lost some really close games to them. We lost two one-run games and a two-run game. A hit here and a hit there and it's a different series."
A hit from Rodriguez indeed might have played a central role in changing things. As it was, he approached home plate one final time in the ninth inning Thursday, facing Tigers closer Jose Valverde with two outs. This time, there were no runners on base -- the Yankees were done with that for the night -- but one polarizing man at the plate.
Another fastball. Another swing and a miss. Another slow walk back to the dugout.
"That's a situation that you dream of," Rodriguez said. "Sometimes you come through, and tonight I didn't."
If Rodriguez is to come through for the Yankees in the future, his overall health will be critical. To that end, he already has a self-improvement plan in place, beginning with a healing process that could take some time.
His blueprint ends with another opportunity and perhaps another fastball. Same time, same place.
"No question I have a lot to prove, and I'm looking forward to that challenge," Rodriguez said. "I'm going to come back with a vengeance, and this team will, too."
Anthony DiComo is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AnthonyDicomo. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Who knew that Chelsea, Britain's brave Big Cup survivors, had such an accomplished mummer in their ranks as Didier Drogba, whose hysterical mime repertoire - man trapped in a box and lassoing a recalcitrant bison, quaking in the boots like a cross between Lionel Blair and Bruno - has upset tonight's quarter-final opponents Benfica. When the draw was made, little did Drogba know that each of his exaggerated chicken-hearted tremors was captured by Chelsea's in-house TV channel and that Benfica would interpret them as a distinct display of disrespect?
"He might just have been joking, we don't know," said the Benfica coach, Jorge Jesus. "But Portuguese clubs have eliminated both Manchester United and Manchester City, the top two teams in the Premier League, so that should act as an indication of the strengths of Portuguese football. Any response to Didier Drogba we'll give out on the field."
Meanwhile Benfica captain, Luisao, is worried that the presence of David Luiz and another former Benfica player, Ramires, in Chelsea's line-up has given the visitors an advantage. "I am convinced they have explained secrets of our team to their companions," he said. "But that will not be sufficient to damage our chances of getting to the semi-finals." He also echoed the assessment by Frank Lampard, the Lionel Bart of the Bridge, that Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'be. "Chelsea have improved in the last few weeks, but they are not the strong team they once were," he chirped. "I see they have just failed to win at home against Tottenham."
Answering Lampard's criticism, Chelsea caretaker manager, Roberto Di Matteo, offered some vanilla platitudes that have somehow been spun into a scorching defence of his side's elite status and a put-down for the midfield Emperor's New Clothes debunker. "We have quality in this team and many good players," he said. "It's a very fine line between success and failure. This team has all the ability to play a very good game and show the qualities these players have." Whether he'll be trotting those lines out again next season seems unlikely, whoever ends up assisting England's Brave John Terry in managing Chelsea. All Drogba has to do is hold his nose and mime pulling a lavatory chain to predict how that one might work out.
"Am I as strong as him? It's not up to me to say ... I don't have anything to prove" - Yes, modest Zlatan Ibrahimovic is comparing himself to Leo Messi.
"If football is to turn to philosophy (yesterday's still want more), surely it'd be less suited to existentialism and more to absurdism? On which point, if a Fiver letter is published in an empty forest and no one is around to read it, does it still fall flat?" - Dennis Patrickson.
"Re: Ally McCoist (yesterday's Fiver letters). I can't be the only ageing fan of the Glorious Glasgow Rangers reminded of the days when, in the great man's honour, "feeling a bit Ally" was rhyming slang used by Scottish ladies who were feeling a bit, shall we say, frisky (although as 1,057 pendants might say: you do have to treat the "Mc" as silent for it to scan properly)" - Ryan Dunne.
"A very cunning ruse by the Pope's O'Rangers to declare "we are the people". Now that the income tax threshold has gone up to £9,200 they only need to be 1,631 people to write off their £15m tax bill" - Iain Christie.
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A student has been jailed for posting r@cist comments on Twitter about Fabrice Muamba's cardiac arrest. 21-year-old Liam Stacey has been sentenced to 56 days in prison after admitting incitement to r@cial hatred.
Arsenal target Mario Gotze has rejected Arsene Wenger's amorous advances by extending his contract with Borussia Dortmund until 2016. "Everyone knows how happy I am here," he bleated.
USA! USA!! USA!!! won't be gracing the Ricoh Arena this summer after being dumped out of Olympic qualifying by El Salvador.
And FA suits have dropped their biggest hint yet that everybody's favourite cockney will get the England job after revealing they plan to appoint a technical director, presumably to counteract 'Ave a go 'Arry's lack of tactical nous.
Brendan Rodgers stars as Pep Guardiola and a ballet dancer in this week's Gallery.
Jonathan Wilson dons his anorak and answers The Question: how has Martin O'Neill improved Sunderland? ...
... before hopping over to Cyprus to appeal to Apoel coach Ivan Jovanovic about why money isn't that important in football.
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If all our players opt out, which is extremely unlikely, we would have about 15-20 million in cap space. The cap will probably be about 50-55 million, meaning that our salary can't go over that. I don't think that's enough to sign CP3, even if he wanted to come here.
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Dear All, I am a newbie in HBase/Hadoop and recently have a small-scale setup in a research cloud: ------------------------------------------ 1 Master Server (Also Hadoop Name Node) 3 Region Server (Also Hadoop Data Node) 1 Ganglia Monitoring Server 1 YCSB Workload Generation Server ------------------------------------------ HBase Version: 0.94.7, r1471806 Hadoop Version: 1.0.4, r1393290 Ganglia Version: gmond/gmetad - 3.6.0, gweb - 3.5.8 YCSB Version: 0.1.4 ------------------------------------------ I have only one table in HBase - 'usertable' with a single column family 'cf1' holding 1,000,000 key-value records. The row keys are in monotonically increasing order and currently I have 6 regions distributed in the 3 region servers each holding 2 of the regions. * * *Objective:* create region hotspots for some research experiments *Observation:* After running a workload consist of a total 10,000,000 operations (50% read, 50% write) I've observed the below statistics in the Web UI of the master server which can suggest potential hotspots in the 3rd (not sure why !!) and 6th regions (possibly it was receiving large number of write requests). Table Regions NameRegion ServerStart Key End KeyRequests usertable,,1369584948241.3061b90ff519c1bce5b3d867690a2b4a. hdb1-02:60030 user2035146605813492656 127946 usertable,user2035146605813492656,1369584948241.00f8a51bab6d98ebd7c4db582579c3e7. hdb1-03:60030user2035146605813492656user30679275375621809 126700 usertable,user30679275375621809,1369584813037.d704a50802ec39982884e394d4ef05b7. hdb1-04:60030user30679275375621809user5136356049533495298 *284828*usertable,user5136356049533495298,1369584928780.999b987d646462e21b8916a737619b39. hdb1-02:60030 user5136356049533495298user617761656465008158133108usertable,user617761656465008158,1369584928780.9cfe288f48f987de7f93b800dcd4c964. hdb1-04:60030 user617761656465008158user7218407885253116621119008usertable,user7218407885253116621,1369584832152.e3a9c4d35c91f06c18ed346886ff3306. hdb1-03:60030 user7218407885253116621*363234* *Questions:* 1. Can the HBase developer community guide me on how to collect the *raw logs* (directly from the master/region servers) for the above table which I've retrieved from the Master server? 2. And how the master server is getting these logs from the region servers? As far I've understand from the architecture the client will directly communicate with the region servers to read/write the data bypassing the master server (unless the first time or if the region server is not responding) 3. How frequently the master collects these logs? Is it real-time (within 1 sec interval !!)? 4. Which HBase metrics will be most helpful to notice region hotspots from Ganglia? I want to know which transaction request (read/write) going to which region servers from the raw log dumps as like No:12345 ---- Type:Write ---- Query ---- Region06 and so on ... Many thanks again... Regards, Joarder Kamal
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Young Illegal Immigrants May Get In-state Tuition In Oregon
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A state Senate committee voted to allow young illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at Oregon universities if they were brought to the U.S. as children. The Senate Education and Workforce Development Committee approved the measure on a 3-2 party-line vote yesterday, setting the stage for a vote in the full Senate later this week. The bill is likely to pass the Democrat-controlled Senate. It has already been approved in the House, and Gov. John Kitzhaber says he'll sign it.


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TORONTO - The innocent bystander from Toronto who was gunned down in Calgary over the weekend was fun, loving and adorable, her former boss says.
Natasha Mohamed Farah, 26, stood out among the dozens of interns who passed through the doors of Toronto public relations firm That PR Thing Inc., owner Danielle Iversen said Monday.
You cant remember them all, but I remember her, Iversen said. Im in shock. She came to work with me from Humber College. Everything she did, she did with perfection.
Calgary Police received a call for gunfire around 3 a.m. Saturday and found Farah shot. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The last time Iversen spoke with Farah was in July through e-mail when Farah said she had moved to Calgary for a new job.
She had a knack for PR. She was not a partier, Iverson said. She wanted to build her career.
Farah worked for the PR firm from January to May 2012, arranging client meetings and editing press releases for clients, her LinkedIn page says.


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Prince Harry 'parties till 4am with Kate Moss at Glastonbury'
HE may be royalty, but Prince Harry was lucky enough to experience Glastonbury just like any other festival-goer at the weekend.
The 28-year-old reportedly stayed up until 4am on Saturday night where he danced the night away with the likes of Kate Moss in The Rabbit Hole area of the festival.
Harry had enjoyed watching the Rolling Stones' headlining performance earlier on in the evening, and was clearly keen to let his hair down.
"Harry was well up for it. He was dancing in a grey trilby and a white T-shirt, with two security guards close by," a source told The Sun. "They just let him get on with it. Kate Moss was dancing right next to him."
The redhead was joined by his pretty girlfriend Cressida Bonas who was spotted enjoying the festivities in a pair of denim dungarees.
Harry was well up for it. He was dancing in a grey trilby and a white T-shirt, with two security guards close by. They just let him get on with it. Kate Moss was dancing right next to him.
However, unlike the hoards of music lovers who trudged their way through the mud and had to set up their own tents, Harry was chauffeur-driven into Worthy Farm at 2pm on Saturday, and off the back of Michael Eavis' advice, he had his driver pick him up in the early hours of Sunday.
"Prince Harry was great. I recommended that he go on into the night because the nightlife is what Glastonbury is all about," festival boss Eavis said.
"At three in the afternoon you don't get it. I told him to get his driver to come back at five in the morning and — do you know what? — he lasted until four.
"His friends were all having a great time. He didn't want to make a formal thing of being here."


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Boards Prefer CFOs
PHOENIX — As baby boomer CEOs retire, boards are increasingly replacing them with chief financial officers, D. Hilton Associates President/CEO David Hilton told attendees during his breakout session at the CUNA CFO Council conference May 20 at the Wild Horse Pass Resort.
Of the 255 CEOs that credit unions have hired during the past 18 months, 64% have promoted or hired CFOs. The trend reverses a previous preference for executives with technology know-how.
"Anyone in this room who thinks won't get that CEO opportunity is wrong," Hilton said.
The pool for viable candidates is shrinking, he said, because many aren't interested in uprooting their families and moving. Others don't fit the bill when it comes to experience, skills or education.
Because the candidate pool is so shallow, Hilton said CFOs no longer need to look at positions at credit unions with fewer assets than their current employer.
"In the majority of the last 19 positions we've filled, nobody went down in asset size," he said. "So, don't set your sights too low. If you're the most qualified candidate, to a certain point, asset size won't make a difference."
However, education and experience still matter. Hilton said an MBA is the most important degree or certification a candidate can have on his or her resume. A CPA certification is also helpful, he said, as is a law degree, giving today's current regulatory environment. However, Hilton said he hasn't found that boards value the CUES Certified Credit Union Executive certification very much.
"Boards don't seem to understand what it is or how much work goes into it," he said.
Internal CFO candidates may have difficulty overcoming a bean counter reputation because the CEO position requires charisma, Hilton said.
One audience member asked advice about improving his prospects to replace his soon-to-retire CEO, who is very charismatic. Hilton suggested in addition to improving his public speaking and networking skills, the CFO could also position himself as more of a strategic thinker, playing up his financial abilities. Another audience member suggested that perhaps the board is looking for a change, and might actually want someone with more substance and less flash.
Greater involvement in community involvement or comparable experience with select employee groups could also help raise the CFO's value proposition for boards, Hilton said.
"If it's a community charter credit union, it could make the difference between an internal and external candidate," he said. "The more people you know, and the more community involvement you have, the more difficult it would be to replace you."
However, internal candidates often have more difficulty receiving proper compensation, he said. The recruiter said he argues frequently with boards that want to promote an internal candidate to the CEO position but keep them at the same compensation level until he or she has a couple of successful years in the position. "I tell them, 'No, you are hiring this person for the job,'" he said. "If you don't think they are ready, don't hire them."
While internal candidates may bristle at a board bringing in a recruitment firm, Hilton said, it does bring the advantage of proper compensation.
Compensation should be discussed early in the interview process, he said.
"Why go through the torture without knowing what you'll be paid?" he said. "This isn't your first job when you're desperate enough to take anything. This will be a lifestyle, so you need to know what you will be paid."
Because credit union CEOs have historically been in their positions for 20 years or more, Hilton said boards often have an unrealistic expectation regarding how long a CEO will remain with the credit union. The average CEO tenure is 7.6 years.


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Looking at getting a 6000lb Galvalift for an X-45 but the dry weight for the boat is 4950. If it's full of gas and gear I'll be at 6000lbs.

It's a good deal but I'm not sure if using it at max capacity is good........Help?
That is one hell-of-allot of gear. Fuel is 90 gal @ 6.25# @ 72 deg. F or 90 x 6.25 = 562.5 that is assuming that your tank is chocked full. That still leaves you 437.5 lb. of gear. Unless you have 8 batteries and a ton of gear I doubt you have that much weight in gear. Not to mention realistically how often do you completely fill your tank 90gal @ $4.50 = $405.00. You should be ok with that lift.
6000lbs is what it is rated for...the amout of extra you can get away with is prob. way more... they leave a lot of room for error just for safety sake.

with the right cables i would guess at least 8k is do-able
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This event is 21 and over
Paste Magazine was dead-on when they called The Whiskey Gentry a "toe-tapping,
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recent finalist in the Chris Austin Songwriting Competition held at MerleFest, Staley's
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"This Florida roots-rock / Americana quintet earned critical acclaim with their 2008 debut Casting Shadows Tall as Giants, becoming an NPR favorite and getting regular airplay on PBS's Roadtrip Nation. They're like a cross between Death Cab for Cutie and Wilco, thanks partly to singer/guitarist Matt Burke's earnest, Ben Gibbard/Jeff Tweedy-like croon. His lyrics are both imaginitive and vibrant (and printed in a mock newspaper article style insert!), relating historical tales, heartfelt odes to his hometown, and clever social commentary. The outstanding playing (especially from inventive drummer Jean-Paul Beaubien and viola player Joshua Hernandez) and flawlessly detailed production on rollicking songs such as "Sons & Daughters of the Gilded Age," "Kerosene & Candlelight," and "The Ballad of Asa Dalton" further ensures this exceptional album is no sophmoric slump." - The Big Takeover.. "(HGWT) were well outfitted with striking songs and a great ensemble feel. Brothers Matt and Danny Burke front the outfit with winning personalities and solid chops. Since they played the Americana conference a couple of years ago they've made stops in Music City, so if you're into Band-like, elemental roots-and-roll, check 'em out". - Music City Roots, Nashville.. "...organic, infectious Americana Pop. HGWT's music has a refreshing immediacy to it... Excellent work, fellows." - American Songwriter.. "My album of the year, so far... All in all, an exceptional and hugely atmospheric album from a band that shows that there is still room in alt.country for experimentation." - Maverick Magazine (UK).. "a dozen catchy, clever songs... splendidly fleshed out with old-fashioned instrumentation and other organic, ambient sounds that augment the record's endearing, back-porch feel." - Metromix Tampa.. "The band crafts Americana with an edge. Taking influences from a bunch of diverse sources and channeling the whole through their own branding. The mix is infectious..." - Alternate Root Magazine.. "Top 10 contender for album of the year..exceptional atmospheric album" - The Roots of Rock (New Zealand).. "...traditional enough to attract the hardcore Americana fan yet different enough to attract those who are not normally impressed" - Discussions Magazine.. "well-written stories wrapped into pop-tinged folk and americana songs." - onechord.wordpress.com.. "Somewhere between indie pop and Americana, and teetering on that line in a way that seems fresher than usual." - brandnewkindof.wordpress.com.. "Postcards... is a masterpiece" - paperpistol.ca.. "Essential Listening" - Ninebullets.net.. "Stellar" - Tampa Bay Times..


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Royal life is going to the dogs. Literally.
While it was rumored around New Year's (when Kate Middleton was photographed frolicking around her parents' Bucklebury estate with a couple of four-legged friends in tow), now we know for sure: Kate and Prince William are the proud pet parents of a cocker spaniel puppy.
Look out, corgis. There's a new top dog in town.
The pooch's name has not been revealed, though the black male spaniel puppy was reportedly a gift to Kate from Will at Christmas.
A Lady for the duchess? How very fitting.
A royal rep confirms to E! News that the pup is a couple months old and comes from a litter "known to the couple through a family connection." What connection, exactly, is unclear, though the Middleton family has a cocker spaniel of their own, which Kate was spotted playing with during the holidays.
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Our congregation is a member of the world-wide Anglican Communion, of which the Church of England is the mother church. We are a member parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri and the Episcopal Church, USA. We have been a part of the Jefferson City community for more than 160 years. We cherish diversity in our congregation.
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The rear I/O ports consist of keyboard/mouse PS2 jacks, a clear CMOS button, analog and optical SPDIF outputs, IEEE 1394 FireWire, gigabit NIC, audio block, six USB 2 ports and one USB 3 port with an extra USB 3 port available internally. The two USB 3 ports are provided by the NEC 720200F1 controller located in its usual spot just to the right of the audio block. A Realtek RTL811E provides the Gigabit Ethernet jack while a VIA VT6315N supplies the FireWire. A Fintek F71889ED allows for hardware voltage, fan speed and temperature readings.
The 8-channel HD audio is courtesy of the Realtek ALC892 while a Realtek RTM880N-793 does clock generation. The AMD SB710 provides up to 12 USB 2.0 ports, although only 10 are present on the Fuzion; the six external rear and four via internal header. It also supplies the six SATA 3Gb/s (black connectors) while a Marvell 88SE9128 adds another two SATA 6Gb/s (white connectors). MSI Military Class components use aluminum core solid capacitors, ferrite core icy chokes and tantalum core Hi-C (highly-conductive) polymer caps. This gives the MSI boards a rated 10-year lifetime expectancy.
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Time for Rendezvous in Jackson
JACKSON -- Visitors may compete in rifle-shooting, tomahawk-tossing and Dutch oven cooking at the 2008 Fort Belmont Rendezvous Saturday, or just watch historical demonstrations of rope-making, atl-atl throwing, blacksmithing, butter churning and wool spinning.
The festival continues on Sunday with a historical prairie hike and presentations from authors Steve Ulmen and Deb Nelson Gourley, who will also present on Saturday, all at Fort Belmont, Jackson.
"Hopefully we'll have decent weather and everything goes well," said Ken Kruse, vice president of the Fort Belmont Foundation. "... there'll be a lot of things to do and see."
The Rendezvous, which celebrates historical traditions of fur-trappers and traders, has a historical tradition of its own. The celebrations with re-enactors started back in the 1980s, initially starting with one re-enactor. That person invited his friends to come over as well and little by little, the Rendezvous started gaining more people through the years.
The historical rendezvous occurred sometime between 1825 and 1840, when beaver-trapping was at its peak, Kruse explained. Once a year, the trappers left the wilderness to buy supplies and sell furs, at a set location with many vendors and suppliers.
"That ended up being their social time," Kruse said. "They'd been back in the woods for months and this was their time to kind of get together. And of course, all these guys start bragging about how good they did, and how good they could shoot, and who had the best of what, so out of that, you started getting competitions."
Fort Belmont's Rendezvous will have its own competitions, hearkening back to the days of the fur-trappers.
The Dutch oven cook-off starts at 9 a.m. Saturday, because many foods take a long time to prepare using a simple fire. The judging will be at 4 p.m.
A traditional black powder rifle shoot will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, and a tomahawk-throwing contest will begin at 4 p.m., with a $100 prize going to the top tomahawk-tosser.
Other games, competitions and activities for kids and adults start at 2 p.m. Saturday, with many prizes for players.
Throughout the day Saturday and Sunday, starting at 11 a.m., Ulmen, the author of the Toby Ryker trilogy, and Gourley, the author of Norwegian heritage stories, will offer presentations about their work.
Sunday's festivities kick off at 10 a.m. with a historical prairie hike, presented by Nancy Sather of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Additional hikes will take place during the day.
Demonstrations of butter-churning, throwing an atl-atl, blacksmithing, flint-knapping and starting a fire using only flint and steel will take place throughout the day.
"Basically, what the Rendezvous experience is, is a chance for people who like to camp and want to do something more unique than regular camping -- it gives them an opportunity to relive some of history," Kruse said.


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Vascular diseases such as diabetes and hypertension cause changes to the vasculature that can lead to vessel stiffening and the loss of vasoactivity. The microstructural bases of these changes are not presently fully understood. We present a new methodology for stain-free visualisation, at a microscopic scale, of the morphology of the main passive components of the walls of unfixed resistance arteries and their response to changes in transmural pressure. Human resistance arteries were dissected from subcutaneous fat biopsies, mounted on a perfusion myograph and imaged at varying transmural pressures using a multimodal nonlinear microscope. High resolution 3D images of elastic fibres, collagen and cell nuclei were constructed. The honeycomb structure of the elastic fibers comprising the internal elastic layer became visible at a transmural pressure of 30 mmHg. The adventitia, comprising wavy collagen fibres punctuated by straight elastic fibres, thinned under pressure as the collagen network straightened and pulled taut. Quantitative measurements of fibre orientation were made as a function of pressure. A multi-layer analytical model was used to calculate the stiffness and stress in each layer. The adventitia was calculated to be up to ten times as stiff as the media and experienced up to 8 times the stress, depending on lumen diameter. This work reveals that pressure-induced reorganisation of fibrous proteins gives rise to very high local strain fields, and highlights the unique mechanical roles of both fibrous networks. It thereby provides a basis for understanding the micromechanical significance of structural changes which occur with age and disease.
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fictional character, the protagonist of Edith Wharton's novel Ethan Frome (1911).
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Wharton's best-known work is the long tale Ethan Frome (1911), which exploits the grimmer possibilities of the New England farm life she observed from her home in Lenox, Massachusetts. The protagonist, the farmer Ethan Frome, is married to a whining hypochondriac but falls in love with her cousin, Mattie. As she is forced to leave his household, Frome tries to end their dilemma by...