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Tips From Kerri Walsh on Keeping Kids Healthy and Happy While Traveling
Kerri Walsh: Keeping Kids Healthy and Happy While Traveling
The following post was written by Olympic athlete and mom Kerri Walsh, two-time gold medalist in pairs beach volleyball.
My philosophy on traveling is to have a tool box. It should be full of everything and anything you could possibly need to help deal with hunger, tantrums, etc.
My toolbox has premade bottles for the boys and millions of snacks. I usually pack things like yogurt bites, crackers, baby food, and fruit. I also pack Joey's backpack full of books and toys. I bring stuffed animals and toys that do not make a lot of noise so we do not bother the other passengers. We will read Five Little Monkeys five times on a one-hour flight; Joey loves it. He is also just starting to watch videos. Joey will play on Casey's iPhone and watch Elmo or Mickey's Play House.
I also recommend having hand sanitizer. Joey touches everything so I make sure to wipe down the trays and seats as soon as we get on the plane.
Recently my nutritionist suggested an all natural supplement to give the kids to help build up their immune systems. I give the kids Congaplex a few days before we travel to help fight anything they may catch from other passengers.
Be sure to catch up and read all of Kerri's great posts on FitSugar!

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I thought it was time I revisited this recipe. Rose talked recently about using the food processor for bread mixing. I have ignored the food processor for years because I was focused on rustic breads and I considered the results inferior. After reading Rose's comments I have been experimenting with the machine and it does produce some remarkable results. I especially like to start the dough in the food processor because it seems to achieve much better hydration. Here are the results of my latest efforts.
Polenta Bread Recipe
200 g yukon gold potato peeled and cut into @1" cubes.
In small sauce pan combine potato and 1 cup water.
Bring to boil, cover, and simmer 20 mins.
100 g polenta
In small sauce pan combine polenta and 1 cup water.
Bring to boil, cover, and simmer 20 mins.
In food processor combine the cooked potato with
1 cup buttermilk
1 tsp salt
200 g all purpose unbleached flour
1 egg yolk
1 pkg yeast
Process until smooth then add 1/2 cup grapeseed oil slowly with machine running.
Add polenta and process to distribute the polenta.
Add 200 g all purpose unbleached flour 1 cup at a time until dough ball forms.
Dough will be sticky. Scrape dough into large mixing bowl and knead by hand in bowl adding 200 g more all purpose unbleached flour about 1 cup at a time.
Let dough rise to double twice.
Divide dough in half for final rise in 5x9 bread pans.
This dough remains very sticky throughout it's life. Use a scraper to gently deflate between rises. The final shaping is best done with wet hands. Make sure the bread pans are well greased.
Bake 350 until loaf reads 205 @ 40 minutes.


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The legality of a plan to let San Diego hoteliers decide whether a new room tax should be levied to finance an expanded convention center needs to be resolved by a judge, says City Attorney Jan Goldsmith.
In a news statement released Wednesday, Goldsmith concluded that the funding plan embraced by the City Council and mayor's office raises legal questions because "it is largely untested." As a result, his office is unwilling to determine whether it is legal or illegal and will instead ask a judge to do so.
Last week the council agreed to form a special financing district that will allow the city's hoteliers to vote on a proposal to levy a tax of 1 percent to 3 percent on room charges. A two-thirds majority vote of hotel owners is required for the financing plan to go forward.
Goldsmith pointed out, however, that under California law, taxes must be approved by two-thirds of the "qualified electorate." In the case of the proposed hotel tax, the electorate would in effect be the city's hotel owners.
Goldsmith said it is essential for the city to file a "validation" lawsuit to confirm the legality of the plan, a move that supporters of the expansion project have advocated as well.
He noted that a plan by the city of San Jose that is similar to San Diego's has been approved by a Superior Court judge, but cautioned that the ruling doesn't necessarily guarantee that San Diego would prevail.
The new tax would raise more than $35 million annually over 30 years. The mail ballot election will commence in March, with all ballots due by April 23.
Even before Goldsmith's latest release, questions have been raised about whether a public vote is needed on the hotel tax. In 2010, voters passed Proposition 26, a statewide ballot measure that imposed stiffer standards for enacting new taxes and fees, which some believe applies to the proposed hotel surcharge.
"Legally, there is nothing wrong with going forward as long as a validation lawsuit is filed," wrote Goldsmith. "But, we should do so with our eyes open. Expectations should be tempered. We do not know if this is a reliable plan to finance the convention center expansion. In addition, a validation action is litigation and it may not be quick, particularly if there are appeals; and, it could be expensive."
Steve Cushman, a member of the San Diego Convention Center Corp. board who has been shepherding the financing plan for Mayor Jerry Sanders, said he did not see anything new in Goldsmith's opinion. He has conceded in the past that the proposed room surcharge will most likely face legal challenges.
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Thor (4)Inevitably the sexiest metal album of the year....Madz279 (3.5)Misha Mansoor's mind broken down into the form of an album.
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Album Rating: 4.0why would anyone pos this what is this i dont even
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dude this review reads like a 2.5-3 yet you gave it a 4?
This could have been a great review, but needs cleaner writing. I liked you approach, very interesting; but it really seems that you did not re-read it. Nevertheless, it is good.
Album Rating: 3.0I'm going to assume english is NOT your first language?
Album Rating: 3.575% of this is fluff, clip the hedges bro
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The office of Los Angeles City Controller Laura Chick on Thursday issued a critical indictment of the financial state of the Entertainment Industry Development Corp. in a 63-page audit of the film-permitting agency. The audit, which blamed the EIDC's executive committee, its management team and the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office for neglecting fiscal oversight, called for the city to immediately re-open negotiations with the film-permitting agency to alter its current contract.
The most damning aspect of the audit was the itemized list of marketing expenditures of the EIDC and Cody Cluff, its former president. Cluff remains at the center of a criminal investigation by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, which initially raided EIDC Hollywood offices and Cluff's homes in September.
Expenditures listed in the audit, which covered a two-year period, include:
o $357,743 spent for tickets to sporting events and concerts;
o $24,840 spent on gifts, cigars and liquor;
o $57,198 spent on the combined membership dues to Staples Center in Los Angeles, Grand Havana Room in Beverly Hills, Via Verde Country Club in San Dimas, Calif., and World Gym and Yoga;
o $138,729 spent on the Sundance Film Festival;
o $152,869 spent on contributions and donations;
o $69,024 spent on the Association of Independent Commercial Producers Show;
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o $60,090 spent on an independent film festival.
Citing a lack of written fiscal policies and procedures, detailed budgets and inadequate documentation, the audit said the EIDC had an almost $1 million deficit in working capital as of June 30, 2001, and a cash deficit of $736,217. As for the EIDC's financial state for the year ending June 30, 2002, "we believe that the deficit may have worsened due to higher expenditures in fiscal year 2002 and the commitment of over $500,000 for legal and administrative expenses in fiscal year 2003."
The firm of Thompson, Cobb, Bazilio & Associates conducted the audit for the two fiscal years ending June 30, 2001, and June 30, 2002. The audit was completed Feb. 14.
"This is an ambush," said Cluff's attorney Mark Werksman, who was notified of the audit results at a two-hour meeting Thursday morning. "We were not provided an opportunity to review, evaluate and respond. This clearly is an effort to embarrass the EIDC to make political hay. If they were serious, they would have given us a chance to review the conclusion and make comments and have some input. This is a political hatchet job."
Asked about the expenditures, Werksman said: "These numbers have to be put in context; you can make a number look bad or good in a vacuum. This is what a thriving enterprise does to maintain relationships and to entertain those who they deal with. If you have to spend $1 million to generate $100 million in business for this community, then where is the problem? Let's keep this in perspective; this isn't running a grocery store."
The audit did, however, say that since the formation of the EIDC, the film-permitting process has been simplified, and relations with the local film industry have improved. "Our telephone interviews with a sample of industry and community stake holders indicate that EIDC is widely supported by those who conduct business directly with EIDC," the report said.
Recommendations in the audit include establishing written fiscal policies and procedures and submission of a detailed budget estimate, future evaluation of the "reasonableness" of marketing expenditures, establishment of procedures for selecting and paying consultants, the revision of current accounting methods, the institution by the city of a standard rate scale for its departments and a standardized billing procedure by the city. The audit also said that the EIDC could improve its process of notifying neighborhoods of upcoming filming projects.
The audit's analysis indicates that if the EIDC were to eliminate all nonessential promotional and other nonpermit-related expenditures, the EIDC would generate reserves of $380,000 annually, thereby reducing its current deficit during the next several years.
EIDC interim president Lindsley Parsons Jr. referred calls to Keith Comrie, former chief administrative officer of Los Angeles, who has been serving as an outside consultant. Comrie had been briefed on the report and said that the executive committee had in the past few months addressed most of the recommendations made within the audit.
Comrie also was at odds with the audit's findings. "Their report is full of conflict, and it was just not professionally done," he said. Comrie said the EIDC has $2.7 million in cash, that all of the EIDC's bills are paid up through December and that the agency has reduced expenditures by $1 million a year. "Financially, we think we have righted the ship," he said. And as for the golf and cigar club memberships, Comrie said, "If there was some overspending, then it is not happening now."
A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office had not yet reviewed the audit.
The results of an internal fiscal and structural audit conducted by the firm KPMG are expected in June.


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I am trying to use ocnYvsY function in the Outputs Setup in ADEXL(IC6.1.5-64b500.11) as ocean expression. What I am trying to do is I have current and swing expressions and I want to plot Swing vs Current after sweeping some other parameters. I know how to sweep variable from VIVAX but it is not efficient.
I tried some thing below but it didn't work
ocnYvsYplot(?exprx VCO_swing ?expry VCO_current) in Outputs Setup in ADEXL( VCO_swing and VCO_current are other expressions in Outputs Setup).
I have also tried "?wave" option also but it didn't work.
Could you help me how to do this?
You would need to use ?wavex and ?wavey instead of ?exprx and ?expry (the expressions would need to be strings).
However, there appears to be a bug - for me, with IC615 ISR16, it worked fine if I created the expression and used the "Reevaluate" icon to plot the results. However, if I ran a simulation, the simulations remained "running" and there was a strange MPS error in the job log file and it never returned.
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In August DW and I were on a two week tour of the Maritime Provinces leaving from Boston. We enjoyed the beauty and history of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island. Luckily the weather was great with only a few showers.
This Grand Circle tour began at the Boston Sheraton with the first night in Bar Harbor at Acadia Inn. Lunch was corn chowder at Linda's Bean Topside in Freeport across from L. L. Bean. That store has really expanded plus lots of little shops. Touring Acadia National Park we stopped at Cadillac Mountain, Thunder Hole, Jordan Pond. Late lunch at Geddys. A lobster dinner was provided at Poor Boys Restaurant, including a demonstration on how to tackle one.
Destination next day was St. Andrews in New Brunswick. We toured Campobello passing back and forth through customs since the island is Canadian. FDR spent childhood summers here and brought bride Eleanor later. After his death Eleanor loved to come with friends. That day a neighbor's house was open (Hubbard House). At Machias we viewed the falls. This is a site of the first naval battle in the American Revolution. Lunch there at Helen's with lip smacking Cabot cheese and mac and blueberry pie.
Our group was lodged in St. Andrew's Inn, less elegant for sure than the Algonquin Hotel undergoing renovations previously used. The highlight for the day was a whale watch in the Bay of Fundy. I had 20 whale sightings plus porpoises, bald eagles, seals. Later on a walk through Kingsbrae Garden. Dinner at The Gables and then Scotsburn ice cream.
Beautiful countryside going through New Brunswick. Lots of dairy farming. Big fencing on the sides of the road to prevent collisions with the moose. At St. Johns we saw the Reversing Falls where the tide rushes into the river forcing an upstream surge. Went through the city market at St. Johns. Lunch at Magnetic Hill in Monston. Then over a nine mile bridge to Prince Edward Island known as PEI. Many potato farms and dairies. Our stay was at Rodd Charlottetown. Evening we had shepherd's pie at the Olde Dublin Pub down the hill.
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In August DW and I were on a two week tour of the Maritime Provinces leaving from Boston. We enjoyed the beauty and history of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island. Luckily the weather was great with only a few showers.
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After breakfast was a trip to Anne of Green Gables Museum. Author Lucy Maude Montgomery wrote this popular story of a feisty readhead orphan in the home of her grandparents, she herself raised by them as an orphan. Then came sequel stories as Anne grows up. Did some of you read these stories as youngsters? I forced myself to do so. As we arrived a short pony and buggy ride.
We passed through quaint towns and stopped at Prince Edward National Historic Site and a boardwalk along the shore. PEI is known for wide beaches and sandstone cliffs. Lunch in Sudbury and getting money at an ATM. Canadian and U.S. currencies at about a par. For dinner I got an authentic Greek salad (which is minus the layers of lettuce) at the Globe. Evening performance in Charlottetown of a new musical drama: Evangeline. This is based on the eviction of the Acadians and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem of two lovers who were separated.
Next day a ferry to Caribou, Nova Scotia, and then on to Pictou for lunch in Aulds Cove. Destination was Baddeck on Cape Breton Island and our lodging for two nights at Auberge Gisele's Inn. This is a nice rambling hotel overlooking the lake. On this day we toured the Alexander Graham Bell museum. Seems he was with his family alot here and worked on many inventions. We know about the telephone based on some knowledge of electricity plus his research in loss of hearing. Another invention was a huge hydroboat on the lake with engines so loud neighbors complained. Also an early aeroplane which flew to Paris.
Beautiful drive around Cape Breton with a stop at a cultural center in Cheticamp. This is a fishing village and center of French culture today. Floras is a shop keeping alive the Acadian culture. There are many rug-hooked wall hangings of artist Elizabeth LeFort. We stopped along the rugged coastline. Had lunch in a park along with a busload of Amish from the States. Also a stop at Celtic Lodge in the National Park. Continuing along the Cabot Trail we saw stunning coastlines and settlements. Brief stop at Neil's Harbor lighthouse...very windy.
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Next day we passed many dairy farms and strawberry fields. Lunch at Main St. Cafe in Antigonish. Then we had a visit
to a fish hatchery and later in the Mi'kmaw Museum in Millbrook. This is about the history of these First Nation people. Interestingly on the wall a picture and document about an important treaty signed in Watertown (my home town). A stop at Auld's Cove. We lucked out in the Lord Nelson Hotel in Halifax...a swanky suite. Enjoyed shepherd's pie down the hill at Durty Nellies.
A morning tour of Halifax began at the Citadal fortress and then harbor area. This has been a major port for years but in 1917 there was a horrific explosion of two ships, one loaded with TNT. Then we went to Peggy's Cove which is a fishing village. Fog gave way enough to view the historic lighthouse and village. Back in Halifax we stopped off at Fair Lawn cemetery having the remains of many of the Titanic victims. Since the movie it has become a popular site. DW insisted on a small lobster roll at McDonalds for lunch.
On the next day a journey along the Evangeline Trail. Included a visit to Grand Pre National Historic Park with a memorial to the Acadian people. Many today are descended from those who returned and speak French. A special scallop lunch at Fundy Restaurant in Digby. A short distance away was the ferry for a three hour trip across the Bay of Fundy to Saint John, New Brunswick. Our hotel was Delta Brunswick where we had dinner.
Homeward bound from Saint John into Maine. Congested traffic at border crossing. Did security have personnel walk through the bus to check our passports? Oh no, we were instructed to get off and form a long line inside a building with a careful inspection of each document of these 36 older Americans! First stop a duty free shop where you can and will buy maple syrup and candy and surely something. In Bangor we ate at Dysarts known for their pies. A little shopping in Portland along the harbor and then locating up the hill at Clarion. A farewell dinner.
Final day into Boston. We perched on stools at Oyster Bar in Quincy Market for clam chowder (chawdah i.e.) Although we have toured parts of Boston this time we saw Old North Church and upscale Beacon Hill houses north of the Common. Posed in front of John and Teresa's House (Kerry). Finally over the Charles to Cambridge and a walk through Harvard Yard. Back at the Sheraton we grabbed our bags choosing to not stay overnight (living in nearby Watertown) so our son picked us up.
I know, this isn't an exciting report with restaurant ideas but like many in our group it seems we had been to Paris and London etc. and wanted so see closer home sights. These northeastern Canadian provinces have their own beauty of fields and shorelines and forests. I'd be happy for anyone to add a note.
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Very enjoyable trip report; I love what I've seen of the Maritime provinces and it seems you had an excellent overview. I've only stopped in Charlottetown, Cavendish and vicinity on PEI, Moncton in New Brunswick, and Halifax and vicinity in Nova Scotia... you remind me I have a lot more to see!
Best wishes, D. Williams
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Hello, Ozarks,
Thank you for your trip report. I enjoyed it v/ much.
Was this a bus tour? If so, what is the name of the tour company.
It sounds as if you did the entire Cabot Trail in one day travelling in a clockwise direction. Is that correct?
Thanks again!
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Yes, this was a bus tour with Grand Circle Travel. Program director is native of Halifax and so knowledgeable. That a real plus...it's like he's showing off his homeland. So lots of stories. Cabot Trail...Cheticamp, Ingonish, Baddeck...I think that is clockwise the one day.
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Yes, that is clockwise.
Sounds like a great tour!
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Sounds like an amazing trip !
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Anyone actually read Anne of Green Gables as a child? Before the trip I read it (with little interest but looking forward to the trip).
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I did. As a matter of fact I read many of L.M. Montgomery's books. I have in my possession one of L.M. Montgomery's books signed by her.
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Once again the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, has provided a large Christmas tree for the city of Boston. It is now on the Common...and the gift is a long standing expression of thanks to the Bostonians who were first responders in providing emergency aid following a disastrous explosion in Halifax harbor Dec. 1917. It has special meaning this year.
Two ships collided, one loaded with wartime munitions, with 1600 killed, thousands more injured, and a wide area devastated. Despite a snowstorm the relief from Boston was the first to arrive and they remained for weeks.
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Seems in www.celetrateboston.com you need to check events and than go down to last item in November about Nova Scotia Tree Lighting...which is November 29 from 6-8. Good description of that tragedy in Halifax harbor and Boston's response.
Story also in "Shattered City" by Janet Kitz.
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Thank you for such a great report. I want to do this trip, hoping this year. I keep going to Europe but have never been to Maine or Nova Scotia so next on my list. I think I have covered most of our other states but Mississippi, Lousiana and Arkansas. Were you on the bus a lot of this trip or did they stop often?
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flpab, likewise my DW wanted someplace not overseas...so the trip was her idea. We didn't spend much time in Maine which is in itself a good destination (but not today with snow and ice).
One complaint was indeed long bus travel but the ferry up to Halifax no longer operational. We ourselves didn't mind, after all used to such in European travels. We've been in every state except Alaska with many earlier camping and RV trips and also Road Scholar programs (40) exploring different places.
Example: see Fodors report on Savannah (mispelled Savanah).
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From acclaimed director Richard Kelly, THE BOX stars Cameron Diaz as Norma Lewis and James Marsden as Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child who receive a simple wooden box as a gift. However, this simple gift bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger (Frank Langella), delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. But, pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world.....someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the crosshairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity.
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Mike Amundsen on API Design, Governance, and Lifecycle Management
Mike Amundsen talks about API management, versioning, and discovery. He compares RESTFul and CRUD-style APIs, discusses the notion of 'affordance,' and introduces hypermedia APIs. He examines documentation modelling frameworks for APIs - like Swagger - and also provides his thoughts on API governance, OAuth 2.0, and web single sign-on.
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Martijn Verburg discusses his new start-up jClarity, which offers performance tooling for the Cloud. He also provides an update on the Adopt a JSR and Adopt OpenJDK programs.
Ward Cunningham on the Appeal of OOP and Dynamic Languages, Federated Wiki
Ward Cunningham talks about the continuing appeal of OOP and dynamic languages, asynchronous programming, and much more. Also: Ward explains the ideas behind his latest project Federated Wiki.
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Graham Lee discusses how to design and write secure (mobile) applications, the concept of sandboxing in general and on OS X, Objective-C and Smalltalk, and much more.
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Dennis Stevens discusses ways to identify and focus on business value and risk mitigation in Agile projects. As a contributor to the Agile Extension to the BABOK, and in his work on the ICAgile Business Analysis & Value Management area, and how to identify, prioritize and mitigate risk in software development projects.
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After last year's scary adventure, Gabe's a little nervous about being back in Egypt. Back near the ancient pyramids. Back where he saw all those creepy mummies. Then he learns about an Egyptian superstition. A secret chant that is supposed to bring mummies back to life. Gabe's uncle says it's just a hoax. But now it sounds like something's moving in the mummy's tomb. No way can a couple of dumb words wake the dead. Can they?
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W. Wesley Jameson has put in more than 35 years in management, budgeting, human resources, marketing and negotiating.
Beyond that, he offers a thoughtful realism that District 5 voters in the Dallas County Community College District should value on their board of trustees, and they should vote him another term May 10.
His 26-year-old opponent, Anthony Rodriguez, enlisted in the Army after graduating from Christway Academy in Duncanville. He would add the perspective of a current DCCCD student but exhibits too little understanding of the facts. In general, he would lower tuition and cut spending, although he's unspecific about what and how much.
Jameson, 62, an area sales manager for YP Holdings, was appointed to the DCCCD board in 2012 and then elected to complete the term. He says the board has faced difficult fiscal decisions with the state's share of funding declining and increased the tax and tuition rates in hopes of staving off future hikes. He also defends the district's $515.7 million budget as having absorbed needed capital expenses put off during down years.
DCCCD, he says, must fill a critical role in building North Texas' workforce. "I'm a fiscally conservative person, but I do believe in the area of education that some money needs to be spent to achieve the quality of person to do the jobs we need," he said.


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Here are the specifications from Leadtek's website:
GPU NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
Graphics Bus PCI Express
Memory size 256MB DDR3
GPU/Memory clock 450/660MHz
Memory data rate 1320MHz
Output Dual Dual-Link DVI, HDTV
Memory Interface 256-bit
Data bandwidth( GB/sec.) 42.2
Fill Rate(billion texels/sec) 9
Vertices/sec (million) 822.2
Pixels per clock (peak) 20
RAMDACs (MHz) 400
Process Technology 90nm
CineFX 4.0 Engine
Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
Intellisample 4.0 Technology HCT
nView Multi-display Technology
Digital Vibrance Control (DVC) 3.0
Microsoft® DirectX®9.0c Optimizations and Support
OpenGL® 2.0 Optimizations and Support
Package contents WinFast PX7900GS TDH graphic card
General guide
Quick installation guide
Driver & Utilities CD-ROM
DVI to VGA converter
HDTV cable
System Requirements Window XP ,2000
A PCI Express compliant motherboard with full-height free slot
A PCI Express supplementary power connector
Installation software requires CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
VGA or DVI compatible monitor
A minimum recommended 350W system power supply (with 12V current rating of 20A).
Adapter/Cable Bundled HDTV Cable x 1
DVI-to-VGA Adaptor x 1
6-pin Power Cable x 1
Software Bundled WinFast Graphics Driver CD (w/ WinFox II) x 1
Power DVD 6.0 x 1
Trackmania Nations - Special Edition (or Serious Sam II) x 1
SpellForce2 x 1
* The bundled adapter, cable and software information on this webpage is provided for informational purposes only and is subject to change without notice.
The Leadtek 7900GS has an interesting looking fan. Let's hope it isn't terribly loud. I'm sure that I will replace it to do some overclocking, but I'm going to use the stock fan and cooler for the initial tests. Leadtek used two DVI connectors along with an S-video connector on the card. Today, that is pretty much the standard. The 7900GS is a little longer than the 7600GT I am replacing. Hopefully, it won't cause any installation problems.
As far as the goodies that come with Leadtek's 7900GS, we get a HDTV cable, a PCI-E power adapter, a DVI to VGA adapter, an installation manual, a quick start manual and a driver CD. Bundled with the 7900GS is Serious Sam II, Spellforce 2, and Cyberlink's PowerDVD and Orb. They undoubtedly will join the other unused bundled CDs that I have kept for some reason.


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If you're heading to the beaches of South Carolina, chances are you pass by the edge of Spartanburg. This city of around 40-thousand is the state's fourth largest city and is often overlooked as a place to stop and explore. With the history of Charleston, the University spirit of Columbia, and the hipness of Greenville it is easy to see why Spartanburg is usually just a place people pass through on the way to somewhere else.
Because of its history as a center for transportation and commerce in the Upcountry of South Carolina, Spartanburg has been given the nickname "hub city." It is still a busy place with I-26 and I-85 crossing paths there and BMW has a large manufacturing plant just west of town as well as a performance driving school and museum.
Morgan Square lies in the heart of the city. It's where the town more or less began back in the late 1700's. Many historic buildings surround the square and many are now filled with places to eat, shop and explore. The square itself is a center for water features, public art and relaxing. Near the square, Main Street snakes its way through downtown past more historic buildings including an old Kress five and dime, the old Woolworth's and Belk stores. The stores inside the buildings are long gone, but the history behind them has not completely faded away.
Down a few blocks more stands a small "skyscraper" looming high over everything around it. On the side is a familiar bright yellow sign with red letters spelling "Denny's.' This is the restaurant chain's headquarters, a seemingly nice fit for a town that still has that all American feel.
The downtown scene in Spartanburg is nothing like what you will find over in Greenville about 30 minutes away. The city seems to be a bit more laid back, but quite comfortable with the direction it is going. One sign of that is the Music Trail you will find Downtown. For several blocks, including Morgan Square, markers representing locals from all different genres of music line the trail. Perhaps the most recognized of the musicians that called this city home is "The Marshall Tucker Band."
Most recently, the city was in the national spotlight as the TV show Food Court Wars came to Westgate Mall. In the end Tirado's Empandas and More won the competition and you can now get a taste of Puerto Rico in the Upcountry of South Carolina.


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Get an overview of this hotelRomantic hotel with free breakfast and restaurant
Popular property highlights
Situated in a rural location, this romantic hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Chipping Campden Church of St James and Dover's Hill. St Eadburgha's Church is 2.5 mi (4 km) away.
Hotel Features
Along with a restaurant, this smoke-free hotel has a bar/lounge and a coffee shop/café. Free English breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, concierge services, dry cleaning, and laundry facilities are onsite.
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All 28 rooms offer free WiFi, room service, and LCD TVs with digital channels. Other amenities available to guests include coffee makers, free bottled water, and hair dryers.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
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Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Dining options at the hotel include a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A complimentary breakfast is offered. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access.
This business-friendly hotel also offers a terrace, tour/ticket assistance, and concierge services. Guests can use the health club at a partner property. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Noel Arms Hotel is a smoke-free property.
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Terrace
- Bar/lounge
- Luggage storage
- Concierge services
- Free breakfast
- Laundry facilities
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Restaurant
- Total number of rooms - 28
- Coffee shop or café
- Free self parking
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free WiFi
- Wedding services
- Smoke-free property
- Fireplace in lobby
- Free newspapers in lobby
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Phone
- Free bottled water
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Digital TV service
- Free WiFi
- Room service (limited hours)
Where to Eat
Guests are offered a complimentary English breakfast. An additional breakfast (subject to charges) is served daily.
Dovers Bar - This pub specializes in international cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Fishing on site
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
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Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
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- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
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Wednesday's NBA Odds
(TheSpread) – The NBA Schedule for Wednesday features nine games. Here is a look at the odds and over/under totals for all nine games.
The featured game of the day has the Golden State Warriors hosting the Dallas Mavericks at 10:30PM ET (View Matchup). According to oddsmakers at Bovada.lv, the Warriors are favored at home, as they have odds of -5.5 points against the Mavericks. The over/under total for the game has been set at 209.5 points. Dallas is 13-9 overall, 4-7 on the road and 11-11 against the spread. Golden State is 12-10 overall, 6-2 at home and 10-10-2 against the spread. The home team has won seven of the last nine in this series, but the road team has covered in five of the last six meetings.
The other featured game on the day has the Boston Celtics hosting the Los Angeles Clippers at 7:30PM ET (View Matchup). According to oddsmakers, the Clippers are favored on the road, as they have odds of -6 points at Boston on Wednesday. The over/under total for the game has been set at 196 points. Boston is 10-13 overall, 5-5 at home and 13-10 against the spread. Los Angeles is 14-8 overall, 6-6 on the road and 12-10 against the spread. Boston has won four of the last six in this series, but the Clippers have covered in seven of their last nine against the Celtics.
For a look at the odds and over/under totals for all of Wednesday's games, see below
NBA Opening Odds & Over/Under Totals for Wednesday, December 11
701 Orlando Magic +6 (188.5)
702 Charlotte Bobcats -6
703 Los Angeles Clippers -6 (196)
704 Boston Clippers +6
705 San Antonio Spurs -10 (193)
706 Milwaukee Bucks +10
707 Detroit Pistons N/A
708 New Orleans Hornets N/A
709 Philadelphia 76ers +12 (210.5)
710 Minnesota Timberwolves -12
711 Chicago Bulls N/A
712 New York Knicks N/A
713 Oklahoma City Thunder -6 (193)
714 Memphis Grizzlies +6
715 Utah Jazz +7 (198)
716 Sacramento Kings -7
717 Dallas Mavericks +5.5 (209.5)
718 Golden State Warriors -5.5
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I often hear the expression on these boards to 'walk with your feet' when not happy with service. Well, I finally did that today and got some satisfaction so I was wondering if Hounds had stories to share as well. Here's what happened to me.
I was at a gourmet take-out/sitdown deli and the special was French meat loaf, mashed potatoes and grilled vegies. I asked the counterman if he would substitute the potatoes and give me something green instead. First he said no but he could see I wasn't interested in other dishes. Then he said how about creamed spinach with the meat loaf special. I said fine. When the heated plate came out it contained meat loaf, creamed spinach and a huge mounded of mashed potatoes. I asked him where the grilled vegies were. He said 'the law was everybody gets potatoes.' His attitude just ticked me off. I'd already paid the cashier and asked for my money back twice much to the first counterman's surprise who thought I'd just take the plate quietly.
The cashier also turned out to be one of the managers. He took the plate and emptied the potatoes and piled some vegies in the plate, warmed it up and gave me meat loaf, grilled vegies and creamed spinach about one minute later. Ta dah! That's how easy it was to turn around a bad customer service situation.
The original counterman apologized and said he didn't understand. I just waved it off but sometimes it really does work to walk with your feet.


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Thread: genealogy questions
February 7th, 2014 03:54 PM #1Senior Member
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genealogy questions
Wasn't sure where to put this post, but I figured some of you might be into genealogy (sort of goes hand-in-hand with name interest sometimes, doesn't it?) and know something about this.
Okay, so I asked a name question last night that got me looking into my genealogy a little bit. I was just Google-ing and stumbled across obituaries for a couple of my relatives, my grandma Lucille's maternal grandparents. But the odd thing is, their names were wrong...or at least different than I was told when I had to make my family tree for a school project years ago. I know with 100% certainty that these records are talking about my relatives, because of the city and the unusual Slavic last names and the names of their children are listed as well, including my great-grandmother's married name (also unusual and Slavic). So, without a doubt these are my people. BUT...I was always told their names were Alexandor nn "Shandor" and Suzanna...the obits say "Alex" and "Susan". Why would this be? They both passed away in the early 1950's, if that is helpful in any way.Mommy to...Maura Lucille and Patrick Donley
February 7th, 2014 04:38 PM #3renrose Guest
Obituaries aren't always formal. It depends who wrote them and how well they knew them I suppose.
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Yes, I agree with renrose.
My grandmother has given me names and stories of people in her family that she knew personally.
And when I look them up in the census documents their names are spelled incorrectly.
I think a lot of it is just human error. The census taker is in a hurry and they cared more about how many people were in the family, how many were adults, m/f, etc. for tax purposes. They didn't care so much if they spelled their name with an e or an a or if they went by their middle name.
Historical documents are a great reference point, but I'd go with family knowledge first unless it's the story of a story of a story (aka 3rd hand account).Top Names: Benedict Calvin & Noelle Geneva
Olivia/Livy : Darah/Bethel : Eve/Verity
Eli/Solomon : Luke/Zane: Levi/Phineas
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Hey there @4hatkathryn
I just wanted to pop in and say that I have been researching my family history for over 10 years now, and I can tell you that variations in names are very common, with both given and surnames. I have traced back to 5 generations+ back on all of my families' branches, and regardless of origin, there is some differences when it comes to naming. If I had to guess, it could be due to a number of reasons, but in most of my families' cases, it was due to the strong desire to assimilate into American culture during this country's high nationalist times. In all of these instances, they would be know by one name by family and close friends (often times, they lived in cultural neighbors where they still would speak their native languages, etc), and use another name professionally / with work friends / the public. Alexandor/Shandor using "Alex" and Suzanna using "Susan" seem pretty straightforward.
A couple of examples to illustrate my point:
I only found out that my own grandfather was christened Salvatore from digging into ancestry information. He was always "Samuel / Sam". My father and his siblings (my grandfather's children) were equally clueless until I showed them what I had found.
Marianne used "Mary", Maria used "Mary," Jan used "John," Nunziata used "Nancy", Giuseppina used "Josephine", Teofil used "Eddy", Liboria used "Lillian", Calogero used "James", Flaminio used "Flemming / Fleming", Giralamo used "James"...
And then there's my great-grandfather who was born Michele Allegra (that's mee-KEL-ay) who changed his entire name because he was told that his name was much too feminine sounding for the American ear. He simply used Mike ___Current Version of Our Family's Name___ on all of his documentation shortly after arriving and used the variation all of his children's birth certificates too.
Changes, especially little ones like in your family where the names are in the same name family, are extremely common. (And don't get me started on how many variations that you'll come across for SURNAMES!)
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Committee identifies gaps in fire preparedness
A parliamentary committee says it is worried budget cuts will have an impact on frontline services this bushfire season.
The bi-partisan committee found the state's main firefighting agencies are better resourced than at this time last year, but they need to be even better prepared.
Its report raised concerns about radio communication systems and criticised the slow rollout of fire blankets for volunteers.
It has also called on the Government to establish a database of fuel loads across the state, as previously recommended.
The committee's chairman, Labor MP Tony O'Gorman, says he is not convinced budget constraints will not add pressure this summer.
"The Government has given extra money to the departments but then they've taken a whole heap of that money back under the efficiency dividend," he said.
"We think that's a problem because we think that does actually affect frontline services through various ways."
Mr O'Gorman says the Government needs to take urgent action.
"Our job is to conduct hearings, conduct investigations into our bushfire preparedness and where it's faltering, our job is to put recommendations forward," he said.
"If the Government refuses to take those recommendations, that's their choice, but be it on their own head."
The committee says it also remains concerned about the drying climate in the South West.
It then criticised the Government's approach to compensation for fire victims, describing it as ad-hoc, and called for a review of RiskCover's ability to assess claims in a timely manner.
The report also called on the State Government to do more to prepare for future bushfire seasons.
The Government has been asked to respond to six recommendations.
The Emergency Services Minister Troy Buswell insists WA is better prepared for this year's bushfire season than it was last year.
Mr Buswell says while there is always room for improvement, a lot of work has been done over the past 12 months.
"We are, I think, better prepared than we were last year, we'll be better prepared next year," he said.
"You'd never say we're as prepared as we ever can be because the nature of fire and the nature of response to fire is that you'll always find things that you can do better."
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Europe Saves Greece—for a Little While
Eurozone leaders and the International Monetary Fund (imf) reached yet another agreement to save Greece in the early hours of November 27, after a 13-hour meeting. Like previous agreements, this one has no chance of solving the problems in Greece, let alone in the rest of the euro. It's yet another Band-Aid—but Germany hopes it will postpone tough decisions until after its 2013 elections.
Last week, eurozone leaders met and failed to agree on a way forward. According to Spiegel Online, the "unpleasant haggling that ensued was something even long-serving Brussels officials had rarely experienced."
"Whenever an idea was proposed, the representative of one country or another had an objection," it wrote.
But the biggest obstacle was a fundamental fallout between Germany and the imf. The imf demanded eurozone lenders forgive some of the debt Greece owes them. Germany claimed it would be illegal to keep lending money to Greece at the same time it is writing off other debt. However, that hasn't stopped Germany before. The more likely reason is that Chancellor Angela Merkel doesn't want to tell German taxpayers that they must take a loss on the Greek loans right before an election.
This week's deal is a messy compromise, even by EU standards. Germany got its way, for now. Nations will not have to write off Greek debt. Instead, they will charge Greece a lower interest rate on loans in the first bailout package. They will delay collecting some of the interest on the second bailout. The European Central Bank will give Greece the €11 billion in profit it has made in the process of propping up Greek bonds. And some Greek bonds will be bought back. That hodgepodge of measures satisfied the imf, and Greece will receive its bailout money once it's been approved by national parliaments. The imf will release its money once the Greek bond buy-back has been completed.
"We think that Greece will eventually need a much larger debt relief, but any agreement on this is unlikely to happen before German elections next fall," said Tullia Bucco of UniCredit Research.
Another major flaw of the agreement is that it will only succeed if Greece's economy soon begins growing rapidly, the way Greece's creditors predict it will. Their predictions are pure wishful thinking. As this post from Zero Hedge demonstrates, the troika of lenders are predicting that Greece has been on the brink of growth for years.
This agreement also makes things worse for the eurozone's other indebted states. Spain and Italy will be borrowing money in order to lend to Greece, just as they're doing now, except they'll be charging Greece a lower interest rate than the rate they pay to borrow the money in the first place.
Ahead of the meeting, Der Spiegel predicted the agreement would postpone the problems for merely a matter of months. "But whatever the Euro Group decides to do now, it will not last until the German parliamentary election in September 2013, as Merkel and Schäuble would like," it wrote. "One senior official involved in the talks ventured a sober prognosis: 'In the spring, we'll have to revisit this junk again.'"
This isn't the only can EU leaders have booted down the road. The chief economist at the World Bank, Kaushik Basu, predicted that the €1 trillion the European Central Bank (ecb) used to prop up eurozone banks last winter will come back to haunt the world in 2014 and 2015. The ecb gave the money to the bank in the form of three-year loans. When those loans are due back, "we're going to get another big rocking of the global economy," Basu said.
"I don't think the ecb had any other choice," he said. "But when you bought time, you have to do things with the time you bought, otherwise the crisis will come back. And there's a danger of that."
That is all most of the EU's responses to the euro crisis have been doing—buying time. Europe still needs a revolution to solve the contradictions within the single currency. At the moment, the eurozone is halfway to becoming a superstate. It can either move forward, or fall apart. But its current situation is unsustainable. Watch for the eurozone crisis to eventually force EU leaders to create a superstate.


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: Does anyone out there know of a message board or support group for survivors of SCD - especially regarding theh ICD inmplant. I had Ventricular Fibrillation and had to be shocked back to life. It was a complete shock because I have always been healthy - don't drink, don't smoke, etc. I was at the end of an intensive workout when it happened.
: Anybody having experienced this, send me an email?
: Thanks,: Dave
There is a site out of St Pete Florida valled the Zapper. Lots of good info and very nice folks. I had exactly the same sityuation and had mine AICD for three years prior to my first shock. If you are interested, email me... It is importanmt to know that a shock is not indicative of a life threatening situation. i.e A-fib can cause a shock (multiple) and not be life threatening. Ron
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Mazumdar Shaw Cancer Centre (MSCC) situated at Narayana Health City is a comprehensive cancer centre with state-of-the-art technologies. The guiding principle of MSCC is in providing world-class health services in cancer to the masses at a cost which is affordable to all. The 607 bedded facility cancer centre is perhaps one of the largest cancer centres in the world with a unique commitment to provide world-class cancer care to everyone in need. MSCC is the largest comprehensive cancer centre. It is an excellence driven centre which offers multidisciplinary cancer care with a personalized touch to the patients from all corners of India, neighboring countries and all parts the world.
This vision is made possible by bringing together an internationally renowned medical team and the advanced technology. MSCC will be the first hospital in the country to offer multi-disciplinary diagnosis and comprehensive treatment plan tailor-made for individual cases. Each new patient is discussed at the tumour board meeting. Apart from being one of the largest cancer centre in the world, MSCC will also function as a world class research hub and training centre in oncology.
MSCC facilitate site-specific treatment which would effectively cut costs and increase patients comfort levels. MSCC does not want to stop at cancer treatment only we want to assume a strong role in cancer prevention too. In India, many types of cancer oral cancer is a good example are detected too late, leading to needless deaths. Because early detection can make the difference between life and death for patients, MSCC has come up with a community outreach program where healthcare professionals go and reach out to patients as against the practice of waiting for patients to come to them. As part of this program, early detection centres are set up in rural areas and healthcare professionals are trained in early detection.In some cases, telemedicine will also be employed to devolve maximum benefit to patients.
Some of the biggest names in oncology embrace MSCC's outlook towards cancer and have joined hands with us to make a difference in the society. Their expertise and approach of taking a holistic view of cancer treatment is in contrast to that available elsewhere.


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The nature of farm succession in three New South Wales communities
Farm transfer between generations of the same family has long been considered a highly significant aspect of rural ideology in Australia with major ramifications for farm management decision making. However, the importance attached to family farm succession has been increasingly questioned in current literature. Results from a study in rural culture in New South Wales support the contention that succession is declining in importance, highlighting instead that the wellbeing and education of younger family members is being placed ahead of expectations that children will automatically take over their parents' property and remain in farming. Implications of this trend for farm management are flagged and directions for further research explored.
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So which version is technically better to get. Is there actually that much of a difference?
Also I live in Australia.
I've heard ntsc offers higher fps, so can I force ntsc my pal games, so they would be identical to the ntsc version?
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Does your tv accept 60hz? If not, ntsc games won't work on your display.


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President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton eat lunch al fresco Monday at the White House. The meeting was billed as a chance to catch up.
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For Bill Belichick, Ed Reed may be "the one that got away."
Back in April of 2002, Belichick and Scott Pioli chose to take tight end Daniel Graham with the 21st overall pick in the NFL draft. Reed went just three picks later, and after eight pro bowl appearances and eight all-pro teams, the Patriots head coach may still be kicking himself.
But after eleven seasons in the NFL, should Reed still be the Patriots' biggest concern on Sunday night?
The Patriots secondary has looked great two games into 2012, but every fan remembers the struggles that same 2011 squad had. In the Ravens and Patriots last matchup in last year's playoffs, the New England defense allowed 306 yards passing and two touchdowns from Joe Flacco and 101 yards from wide receiver Anquan Boldin. Can Devin McCourty and the rest of the Patriots' defensive backs do a better job Sunday night?
Ray Lewis is still a force in his 17th season in the NFL, and looks even better than in recent years after dropping some weight this offseason. If the Patriots are going to hope to get Stevan Ridley going on the ground, Lewis' impact will have to be minimized.
Speaking of the Patriots' running game, athletic and massive defensive end Haloti Ngata will have to be contained by New England's interior linemen Logan Mankins, Ryan Wendell and — if healthy — Dan Connolly. If Connolly can't play due to a concussion, Donald Thomas could have his hands full with Ngata.
The Patriots run defense has been great so far, allowing just 125 yards on the ground with 2.6 yards per carry in two games. They haven't had to face a running back as great as Ray Rice though. In the 2011 playoffs, the Patriots did a nice job against Rice allowing 67 yards on 21 carries and no touchdowns. The Patriots weren't so lucky in the 2009 playoffs when they let Rice run free for 159 yards and two touchdowns, including an 83 yarder to start the game.
This is a much different team now, and it seems that Belichick has made it his duty to build a team to stop the rush adding great run defenders Kyle Love, Chandler Jones, Dont'a Hightower and Brandon Spikes since that game. Perhaps the greatest concern with Rice is his ability to catch the ball out of the backfield. New England's zone coverage usually concentrates far more on the intermediate to deep portion of the field, rather than the shallow, where Flacco can check down to Rice. The Ravens' running back can be dangerous if he's got open land in front of him.
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Misdemeanor battery charges were approved Wednesday afternoon against a Dyer, Ind., teen accused of brutally beating another student.
The charges may be upgraded to a felony if 17-year-old David Haddad's condition worsens. Haddad has bruises, three blood clots in his head and traumatic brain injury, his attorney said this week.
Haddad's attacker, an 18-year-old student at Lake Central High School, has not been publicly named.
Haddad's family filed a lawsuit in Lake Superior Court on Monday, claiming the school district turned a blind eye while Haddad was bullied for more than a year due to his Middle Eastern background.
His brother and father went to court Wednesday seeking an order of protection against the group of students -- some named, most not -- who took part in the Nov. 8 attack that was recorded by school surveillance cameras and some cell phones.
Osama Haddad was in tears during his time on the witness stand during the two hour hearing. He described what he saw when he reached the school's office that day about an hour after the attack.
"I see him sitting in the chair. He was bleeding," he said. "[School administrators] should have called the ambulance for him. This hurt me so bad."
The order of protection was denied for all but the single teen accused.
The attack, said St. John Police Chief Fred Frego, was in retaliation for rap music videos David Haddad had posted online.
"The suspect took offense to the music the victim was producing," said Frego.
Frego said video provided by the high school showed a large crowed of students around watching the attack.
"It was a passing period and all the commotion drew the crowd," he said, adding that a teacher came out of the classroom to break up the fight but, from what he could tell, no student intervened.
The judge ordered all evidence, from cell phone videos to music video to Facebook posts, be preserved on both sides of the case.
School administrators said the teen charged in the case will return to the high school and be placed in an "alternative program" to ensure he doesn't cross paths with the victim.
Osama Haddad said he's not sure he'll ever allow his son to return to the school.
"For his protection, because he's really hurt. We all hurt. We don't want this to happen again; not just to my son [but] to any of the kids," he said.
Haddad is recovering at home, in the care of his mother, a registered nurse.


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ORINDA — A Michigan-based developer has bought a 10-plus-acre site formerly owned by the Orinda Union School District — nearly nine years after signing a purchase contract with the district, and four years after getting city approval to build homes at the site of the former Pine Grove elementary school.
Pulte Homes announced Wednesday it plans to build 65 one-, two- and three-story single-family homes in this development called Orinda Grove. Eight duplex units will also be built to provide affordable housing to moderate-income families per city requirements, according to Orinda Planning Director Emmanuel Ursu.
The $19.5 million purchase caps nearly a decade of negotiations between the district and developers, who saw potential in the Altarinda Road property, just off Highway 24 east of the Orinda interchange. In recent years, it was the site of the abandoned Pine Grove school and deteriorating administrative and maintenance facilities.
At one point, Pulte had threatened to walk away from the project, claiming changes demanded by the city would mean the development wouldn't "pencil out."
Superintendent Joe Jaconette said the district wants to use proceeds from selling the land to fund facility improvements, and didn't want to pay significant demolition costs. "It was seen as a good option to market the site," he said.
Pulte will build a new 7,500-square-foot school district office adjacent to the development as part of the purchase. Jaconette said the district will retain the land on which the office is built. Construction is estimated to take 18 to 24 months, and the developer has leased a temporary office site for the district downtown.
Proceeds from the sale are restricted by the state and can only be used for facilities, according to the superintendent. He said the district will complete planning and prioritizing critical projects outlined in the master facilities plan, which includes all schools in the district. Those projects include painting, addressing seismic safety issues, installing air conditioning and infrastructure upgrades.
Jaconette said the district has already completed some work, including the repair of a collapsed hillside near school facilities, with payments received before the final purchase.
The homes are expected to range from 1,533 to 2,672 square feet and models are scheduled to open in spring 2013.


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The Reds will try to win round 2 after losing round 1 last night.
Greg Reynolds will try to get his first win of the season.
You will discuss the game here and cheer on the Reds! Go Reds!
The Reds will try to win round 2 after losing round 1 last night.
Greg Reynolds will try to get his first win of the season.
You will discuss the game here and cheer on the Reds! Go Reds!
And he can bunt!
And he can bunt!!
@YorktownRed: !
@Baseclogger: You beat me to it, but I was just a touch more emphatic.
@YorktownRed: Maybe you appreciate bunting a tad more than I do.
ok BP…last chance
@VaRedsFan: he sucks
Look for another soft swing.
Great night for Brandon.
Dag gone it I wanted to see BP hit for the cycle. Heck of a night for BP.
@Sergeant2: That would have been doubly cool: cycle and 100th ribeye! So close
Boys just keep adding on – very impressive.
Dear CP: "clutch!"
Great job Mr. Reynolds. Now lets hope Chappy can get an inning in.
Maybe we should have rooted for the Rockies to score two more?
Votto goes 1-for-5 but collects 2 paychecks and strikes out twice. (He will swing a bat!) It's like Franchester Brennaman's wet dream!
@jernagaj: Arguably his worst game of the last three, but Franchester wouldn't understand.
@Baseclogger: My thoughts exactly.
37,616 turned out for tonight's titanic struggle, 37,616.
Bruce only makes $8 million, so it's okay that he made an out.
Why do I see this pitcher's name and think of Vince Vaughn and start looking for a trident ?
Ludwick only makes $2 million, so just putting the ball in play is plenty from him.
Baseclogger, by any chance are you the treasurer for the Cincinnati Reds? You seem awfully concerned with the payroll…
@RedTitan19: I thought I was doing everyone a favor. People seem to be very interested in the relationship between salary and production. Or does that only apply to one player? Maybe I'm confused.
As the late great Bob Shreve would say "he hit that a fur piece".
Yup, should have rooted for the Rockies to score two more. That's the only way Chapman ever sees the field. It's theoretically possibly he'll never throw another pitch for the Reds.
We won! Lets all forget our differences and celebrate victory!
@RedTitan19: So, I'm not even allowed to complain about the fact that Chapman didn't pitch? I won't know what to do with myself.
Good win for the Reds tonight, very good win. Lets get em again tomorrow and make it 2 outta 3 and that ain't bad. Go Reds!!!! Adios Amigos.
Baker obviously doesn't care if Chapman gets any kind of work between saves. He's poved this for the past few days. So if there are no more save opportunities this season, I assume Chapman doesn't pitch again this season.
Chapman who? Haven't seen him in a while. Guess rest him up for the 7 key games next week… Yea, right… That's it..
Immensely proud of the pitching staff – new and the regulars… Where would we be w.o. Them
I caught the 8th inning on the car radio and it sounded like Reynolds was sent out 1 inning too many. What is WITH Baker and this perversion for letting guys go out for the 8th inning? Is there a contract incentive? Reds should be looking for efficient wins, not quality starts. Then again, that's the players manager.
@Johnu1: he lives and dies with the philosophy that starters give up three or more or have two men on 7th inning and on. He cannot remove a guy on a high note.
@Johnu1: Reynolds struck out the side in the 7th and hadn't thrown very many pitches. I don't see any reason not to send him out for the 8th. What I don't understand is why it wasn't a priority to make sure Chapman pitched at least one inning. Unless Chapman is nursing an injury, I just don't get it.
@Baseclogger: I didn't see it, was on the road, but a ball hit to the track, caught, another ringing double, a home run and another ball to the fence … somebody ought to have been able to ascertain that Reynolds was out of gas. Somebody who ought to be paying attention. And if Reynolds was asked and lied, then that's even worse.
@Johnu1: Again, he struck out the side in the 7th. The whole side! In the inning before the 8th! Then got the first guy out in the 8th. Had perhaps thrown 85 or 90 pitches to that point. He's cruising along. Next guy gets a hit. You're up 7 runs with one guy on base. Do you really need to go get the pitcher right there? If a relief pitcher comes in and gives up some runs, then removing Reynolds at that point will look quite stupid, won't it? I HATE defending Baker, but there was nothing wrong with leaving Reynolds in to give up those two runs. They more or less came from nowhere. Perhaps he should have come out immediately after the home run, but not before.
Dodgers just picked-up Michael Young from the Phillies. They are, without a doubt, going all in.
Picked up a big game on the Cardinals. If it's the playoff, the game at home is a positive.


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If you plan to drive a commercial vehicle or combination of vehicles with gross vehicle weight rating over 26,000 lbs, you need your CDL — or Commercial Driver's License.
I recommend a Class A CDL. There are other endorsements as well for things like Air Brakes, Mazmat, Doubles and Triples and then Passengers. Please refer to the Commercial Driver's License Handbook for your respective state to be certain you have all the correct information for your location.
For the purposes of this blog post, I'll cover the GVWR (gross vehicle weight rating) issue, not the other endorsements.
Several years ago, I learned the hard way that I needed a CDL. I was in South Dakota, hauling a boat on my trailer for a friend of mine, when I was stopped by DOT enforcement. Based on the classifications of what I was hauling, my vehicle and the model of the trailer, my GVWR was 26,150lbs, a buck fifty over the limit.
I explained to the officer I was driving a ¾ ton pickup truck, not a semi, to which he replied, and I quote: "I don't care what you are driving. You need a Class A CDL to move it any farther." He then he gave me three choices: a) leave my cargo, b) find someone with a CDL to drive it for me or c) keep driving down the road and be taken to jail.
While I was mulling my options at the truck stop just beyond where I was pulled over, I called the trailer manufacturer to determine how they classified the trailer weight. In the process, I discovered from the customer service rep that they classify the trailer weight 25% over the actual weight, meaning my trailer weighed 200 lbs less than was classified. What a glorious moment!
I was able to get that fact in writing, showed the paperwork to the DOT officials, and was on my way down the highway UNDER 26,000 lbs. While a technicality — and I might add, some quick thinking on my part — kept me from going to jail or taking money out of my pocket, I learned my lesson. When I got back to Seattle, I got into a Commercial driver training program. I often wonder if
that officer has seen the show and remembered me. These were some of "those days"!
Expect driver training to cost about $5,000. You'll come out of it with your CDL, which essentially serves as your diploma. Generally these run 5 days a week for a month, so you really can't work during this time – it's definitely a commitment you'll need to make.
They are designed for those who know nothing about driving a truck and all that's involved with it. You learn how to shift, how to hook up your trailer, how to drive with the trailer, how to back up, etc. You take a written test a couple weeks in and then you get out in the yard and then the road a bit.
To be really clear, you don't come out of it as Mr. Experience when driving a Class 8 vehicle. It simply doesn't work that way, much the same way when you got your license as a teenager – you passed the written and driving tests but it didn't mean you were experienced in the rules of the road. That takes time and simply putting in the miles.
This License gives you the ability go out and learn legally. There is much to know and learn from that point on. Don't expect to get a bunch of high fives from all the experienced drivers on the road. You are just another rookie in their eyes. It is not for everyone and not every has the natural ability to be a good driver. Just remember it takes many miles and lots of lessons! Do a good job and stick to it and you might get some respect!
I personally really enjoyed the driving school experience. I did learn many things and I had driven many miles before I went there. I drove a straight truck (hoopie) for local 174 in Seattle for many
years as young man. I knew I wanted to get into this life and I was making an investment and commitment to do it. I had a plan from the get go and it started with Uship. This is when I knew
I had to be all in, or leave it behind.
My advice for people who ask me about going big or going home, I tell them that trucking can be a very rewarding experience, and you can make good money, even great money, but every step in the set-up process will cost you time and money, just like it does starting any other type of business. These setup costs shouldn't discourage you. Just be ready for them.
Bottom Line
Driver training is a core necessity when getting into trucking – both for the diploma and getting behind the wheel – but it takes time to become an experienced driver.


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Structure in West Bank Settlement
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Of 3,449 demolition orders issued for West Bank settlements by the Civil Administration during the past decade, only 3% were actually carried out, so states a new report issued by the "Peace Now" movement Tuesday morning.
The report was based on statistics provided by the Civil Administration, which is the army body charged with administrating the West Bank. It states that thousands of demolition orders were issued for illegal structures in West Bank settlements and settlement outposts, but only a fraction were actually carried out by the IDF. More than half of these aforementioned orders were for structures within the settlements themselves.
The report lists industrial companies, cellular companies, public officials, and the IDF as construction violators, noting that the worst offenders as far as illegal construction is concerned, appear to be the settlement of Ofra, with 196 cases, as well as the settlement of Bet- El. Bruchin heads the list of outposts with 104 cases of illegal construction, followed by Shvut Rachel with 98, and then Migron with 75 and Hayovel with 62 cases. The Peace Now movement filed charges against the two latter outposts with the Israeli High Court.
The IDF also appears to be a construction violator, according to the "Peace Now" report. A case file was opened against the military in November 2000 for engineering projects conducted near Beit Omer.
The report failed to mention incidents of illegal construction by Palestinians. Statistics attained by Ynet staff indicate that during the 1997-2007 time period mentioned by the Peace Now report, 6,286 case files were opened for illegal Palestinian structures. Of those illegal buildings, only 1,567 were destroyed by the Civilian Administration (a mere 24%), and 499 were voluntarily demolished by the PA.
The Yesha Council said in response to these figures that "the report in question is one sided and incomplete. A more objective report would also cite illegal Arab construction in the Negev and West Bank in order to paint a more accurate picture of this issue and its scope."
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Ladytron Ghosts (Blestenation Edit) Lyrics
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My fault
My bad
I had to be trippin
Im wipin your tears and Id do it again
Youre playin the game
Im layin a claim to your brain when I fuck with your head
Youre playin for change but shit is just stayin the same
Cause I got that chain around you even when I aint around
I paintin in the town
You awake in the house
Cursin and sayin my name
You callin me but my voice mail just picks up on the first ring
Your mind is playin the worst thing
into tears again youre bursting
Here it comes just like rehearsed
my fault my bad
I had to be trippin
Thats just how the cycle works
(Ladytron - Ghosts Chorus)
Theres a ghost in me
Who wants to say Im sorry
Doesnt mean Im sorry
Part of me just wants to say that Im sorry
But Im not so I gotta be pardoned
Im a hard hitter my heart is just hardened
It froze its over darlin
Listen I know that its sad that youre cryin
And I dont care, but Im tired
Of all the moaning and bitching and whining
I just came here to pick up whats mine and be on my way
Ive got an appointment
Yeah, Ive got a job employment
You were a puppet, a prop, a pawn for my enjoyment
To get to my point, I met someone else
Whos better in bed, better-looking, respects me
Someone whos trying, who protects me
Thats what she said when she left me
(Chorus x4)
Theres a ghost in me
Who wants to say Im sorry
Doesnt mean Im sorry
[Computer animated voice]
I woke up this morning cold and lonely
And my first waking thought was to get angry with you
It was the first time Id thought of you in a while
But there I was mad because I was cold and lonely
And I guess it was that I was mad because you werent there
Its just sometimes my friends tell me that I ?
That I was wrong ?? in New York and L.A.
Not that I ?? in December
Anyway, I had a very pleasant second date tonight with a very nice man
I probably had too much to drink
I probably shouldnt be writing you now
Its stupid, and petty, and childish and isnt going to do me any good
But the truth is the truth
Theres a ghost in me
Who wants to say Im sorry
Doesnt mean Im sorry
Thanks to katie S for submitting Ghosts (Blestenation Edit) Lyrics.


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