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Of course you didn't expect your post baby body to magically morph into its prepregnancy shape within a few weeks of delivering your bundle, but you probably didn't expect the sagging stomach to stick around either.
Eating a healthy diet and exercising is step one to getting your bangin' body back. But we get it — you're tired, sore and it's hard to exercise when all you want to do is just bond with your wee one.
Enter: The Taga Bike. This bike-stroller hybrid combines the fun of a carrier bike with the function of a luxury stroller. You're able to spend time with your babe while enjoying a smooth ride and workout. (Just remember, if you're in an urban setting, try to refrain from riding on busy streets...you do have baby on board after all!)
Suitable for 6 months to 6 years, there are 10 different accessories for the Taga Bike — from a wooden seat for two to an eco-friendly shopping basket (hello, farmer's market!) and car-seat adapter. Bonus: The bike itself even converts to a stroller in about 20 seconds.
As rad as this get-fit gadget is (you'll be sure to get approving looks from spectators), it does come with a not-so-budget-friendly price tag: $1,500 for the basic model, which includes a child seat.
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I was just wondering if it was in the realm of possibility to display a wall-to-wall post that's on my personal page on my business page. a post made on that personal page would help my business & want to port it over somehow w/o copying it you know... seems kind of cheap to quote the person who said it especially cause they're a fan.
So I doubt there is a tool but I wanted to make sure I was right about that.
Oh I see... thanks.
Hopefully people will start to understand the concept of tagging fairly soon - that way it'll show up on both provided they tag your business in the original post.


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Join us to learn how to manage the current technology to leverage those contacts, do business and stay ahead in turbulent times and to apply the principles and directed networking with other participants who share your same professional and personal interests in a live demonstration of technology from the speaker firms.
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England Rugby
Cipriani cameo catches England's eye
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October 18, 2012
Danny Cipriani is set to return to the Sale No.10 shirt for this weekend's clash with Montpellier © PA Photos
England boss Stuart Lancaster has offered some words of encouragement to Sale fly-half Danny Cipriani as he continues his quest for a return to the international stage.
Cipriani came off the bench to steer the Sharks to a thrilling 34-33 victory over Cardiff Blues in their Heineken Cup opener last weekend and is set to be rewarded with a starting place when they travel to Montpellier on Sunday.
His return to top form came after a low-key start to the Premiership campaign that mirrored Sale's plight as they slumped to six straight defeats. As a result, Cipriani has seen his opportunities limited and that failure to nail down a starting berth will hinder his international chances according to Lancaster.
"His challenge is to start and play well for Sale. If he does that on a consistent basis he'll be considered like everyone else," Lancaster told BBC Radio Five Live.
Cipriani, who joined the Sharks from Melbourne Rebels earlier this year, is no stranger to Lancaster and that history may benefit the player's chances of a first cap since 2008. "I'm lucky, I coached Danny a lot before he went to Australia and he worked with me in the Saxons," Lancaster added.
"When I spoke to him out in Australia he said the priority is to come back and play well in the Premiership. It was great that he came on and made a difference [on Sunday] and great for Sale to get that win."
However, assistant coach Mike Catt stressed that Cipriani is by no means the only player pushing for selection. "It's not just Danny Cipriani," he said. "There's George Ford, Freddie Burns, Toby Flood - these guys are playing consistently well at the moment so it is a case of them making sure they put themselves in the limelight continually and impress us as a group of coaches but also do what is right for their team."
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; Dujardin, Jean-Marie ; Verpoorten, Dominique
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Affiliation: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Country: USA
Detail Information
- Antibody and cytokine responses in Dracunculus medinensis patients at distinct states of infectionStefanie Knopp
Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Tubingen, Wilhelmstr 27, 72074 Tubingen, Germany
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 102:277-83. 2008..medinensis, which extended beyond the parasite-specific immune responsiveness. The detection of D. medinensis-specific IgG(1) and IgG(4) isotypes may help to distinguish newly exposed, patent and post-patent D. medinensis infections...
- Microfilariae of the filarial nematode Litomosoides sigmodontis exacerbate the course of lipopolysaccharide-induced sepsis in miceMarc P Hübner
Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tubingen, 72074 Tubingen, Germany
Infect Immun 76:1668-77. 2008....
- Inhibition of type 1 diabetes in filaria-infected non-obese diabetic mice is associated with a T helper type 2 shift and induction of FoxP3+ regulatory T cellsMarc P Hübner
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
Immunology 127:512-22. 2009..This protection is associated with a Th2 shift, as demonstrated by cytokine and antibody production, and with an increase in CD4(+) CD25(+) FoxP3(+) regulatory T cells...
- Litomosoides sigmodontis: a simple method to infect mice with L3 larvae obtained from the pleural space of recently infected jirds (Meriones unguiculatus)Marc P Hübner
Dept of Microbiology and Immunology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
Exp Parasitol 123:95-8. 2009..Additionally, this method allows for geographical separation of the facility maintaining the L. sigmodontis life cycle from the institution at which mice are infected...
- Type 2 immune-inducing helminth vaccination maintains protective efficacy in the setting of repeated parasite exposuresMarc P Hübner
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
Vaccine 28:1746-57. 2010..These results demonstrate that vaccines which induce type 2 immune responses can maintain their efficacy in the setting of repeated parasite exposures...
- Litomosoides sigmodontis cystatin acts as an immunomodulator during experimental filariasisAlexander W Pfaff
Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Tubingen, Wilhelmstrasse 27, 72074, Tubingen, Germany
Int J Parasitol 32:171-8. 2002..These results suggested that cystatin acts as an immunomodulatory molecule during the course of a filarial infection, and its neutralisation might contribute to generate protective immune responses...
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Pediatr Allergy Immunol 15:133-41. 2004..falciparum will suffice to prime in utero their children for inflammatory and both Th(1)- and Th(2)-type cytokine responses, and such broad and mixed cytokine spectrum may be of advantage upon secondary parasite challenge in later life...


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MF: Along those lines, youve very recently mentioned that if the project hits $2M, there will be some social features. The fan reaction
well, theres been a lot of confusion around that.
BF: Yeah. Yup. Right before you called I was working on a project update to give that a little more color. Ive read all that. I think
I already know what they want at $2M. We have forums out there. Its larger world and more content, more dialog, more audio, more NPC portraits. Im going to do all that stuff! I
and I shouldnt have done it
I threw out a fringe idea for discussion, because people keep asking, what else are going to do? I was focusing on the what else. Social is a four-letter word with extra letters. I understand.
People have been burned by a lot of these games that try to be social. So, Im clarifying that. As much as it was like, Whoa! Slow down, guys! Were not getting away from this core RPG, I still prefer this kind of communication. I prefer to know. You might go down a path
in the past, when I made all these other RPGs, I was flying by the seat of my pants, using my instincts as a gamer. Sometimes, you have to be careful. For me, this really helps close the loop, making sure that were working on the things that people want. The last thing that we want to do is go work on a feature only to find out that no one wants it. I dont want to do it either, if no one wants it.


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And his heart was oppressed by the disagreeable feeling which human ingratitude always arouses. "In Desert and Wilderness" , Henryk Sienkiewicz.
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Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense. - Fawn M. Brodie
Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. - William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. - Adolf Loos
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses. - Logan P. Smith
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own. - Robert Louis Stevenson
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It all started with Moneyball, the 2011 film detailing how general manager Billy Beane used analytics to vastly improve the fortunes of his Oakland A's. And while the film doesn't come with a happy ending—the A's are eliminated on their way to the World Series—it helped reignite the fire for professional sport… Read More →
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Visualizing Fantasy Football Success: NFL Week 5
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On the Trends and Outliers blog, we're into recaps of all the latest news, trends and research around BI and data analytics. We even bring you a recap of what's happened in this space on Twitter each month. Today, we're bringing you a recap of the top 10 posts from… Read More →
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Victoria Beckham was spotted visiting her clothing boutique on Dover Street in London, England on Friday (December 12).
Taking some time out from wearing her favourite colour black, the designer gave us a lesson in chic winter dressing donning a ribbed sweater from her Fall 2014 collection paired with a luxe Celine Fall 2014 marble knit ribbed skirt.
Bringing the look together rather nicely with a burgundy Victoria Beckham clutch and matching suede Louboutin boots, I covet this look from head-to-toe.
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Legal Question in Family Law in Pennsylvania
I'm was ordered to pay for half of prepaid summer camp for son. 5 payments. I paid one payment and she took him out of camp after 2 wks, one of which he missed sick. Am I obligated to pay other payments to her even with her taking him out w/o discussing this with me?
Asked on 7/19/11, 1:32 pm
1 Answer from Attorneys
Cary Hall Law Offices of Cary B. Hall, L.L.C.
I can't see how you'd be liable for something that never took place. What does the Order say exactly?
My thought is to stop payments and let her complain to the Court . . . and then explain why you should pay for something that never occurred. Judges love that.
Best of luck to you.
Cary B. Hall, Esquire
Law Offices of Cary B. Hall, L.L.C.
121 East Chestnut Street, Suite 205
Souderton, PA 18964
Answered on 7/19/11, 2:04 pm


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Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 829179, 7 pages
Research Article
Spoke Model for Calculating Reliability Index and Safety Factor of Slopes
1Department of Military Civil Engineering, Logistical Engineering University of PLA, Chongqing 401331, China
2College of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, China
3Geological Prospecting Bureau of Chongqing, Chongqing 401121, China
Received 4 December 2012; Revised 7 March 2013; Accepted 14 March 2013
Academic Editor: Panos Liatsis
Copyright © 2013 Ping Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."-Clarence Budington Keland
I know I read a quote somewhere about a man has to be brave and strong and go to war and that same man is gentle to his children and loving to his wife.....I'm sure I've misquoted it and I looked everywhere and can't find it. Its true though. As mom's are important, so are dads and deserve as much love and respect.
SLHer, I love you and thank you so much for not only being a shining example to our son of what a man is and what makes a father a real father, but to me as well.
I wish I could write what I feel more eloquently, but Sam Jackson is distracting me right now with that Big Kahuna burger...
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Above all, be the heroine, not the victim. - Nora Ephron
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RE: Sterling Money Order
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- Hi Judith,
My name is Ursula Krol (Digital Photo) and I did the Root Show. I was to
late this year.
My phone # is 238-1234. Unfortunately TELUS changed my Cadvision web page
and I'm in the process of changing to a new web address soon. I have a full
archival process with very high quality equipment and I am a provider of
silver base negatives across North America.
Merry Christmas
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P.S. For all AFHS members I have always 15% off any copy and restorations
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Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 1:22 PM
To: dist-gen@...; John Doyle; Gordon Lane
Subject: Re: Sterling Money Order
Does anyone remember the name of the photo restoration fellow who exhibited
at the Roots seminar? Or, could anyone recommend a good photo restorer?
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Subject: Re: Sterling Money Order
> Hi Gordon,
> I have bought dozens of money orders in pounds sterling for English
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> the service. If you have not reached this age, you might want to get
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> without paying the Post Office their $3.50, or whatever it is now.
> Judith Doyle
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Utah St. & San Jose St. to Join Mountain West
Matt Peloquin
Utah St. has come close to joining the Mountain West conference twice before. San Jose St. came close once in the past as well. But finally, both schools appear to joining the Mountain West in as close to a "done deal" as can be for now.
The move will bring the Mountain West total membership to 9 all-sports members and 10 for football. While warm bodies for the MWC has been a priority, they have the luxury of also adding the Salt Lake City market and the Bay Area to help boost it's television contract value. The Mountain West and CUSA are still expected to partner up, despite a full merger being shelved. The plan will likely involve the two conferences forming a football alliance where they negotiate a united television deal and arrange for some sort of championship game.
If the Mountain West were to add 2 more schools and grow to 12, combined with the expected growth of CUSA to 12, the alliance could hold two championship games with the winners meeting in a bowl game.
CUSA will be adding UTSA as well as likely North Texas and Florida International.
Louisiana Tech will likely be the 12th CUSA member unless Charlotte can get more support for it's inclusion. Old Dominion is also keeping an eye on things in the event that they opt to upgrade to FBS.
The losses of Utah St. and San Jose St. from the WAC will put the final nail in them as a football conference.
With Utah St., San Jose St., UTSA and potentially Louisiana Tech leaving, the WAC will be left with only New Mexico St., Idaho and Texas St.
Texas St. will be pushing the Sun Belt hard for inclusion to replace the losses of North Texas and UTSA.
New Mexico St. will also likely petition the Sun Belt so that they are not left out. But the Sun Belt might have more appealing options such as Appalachian St., Charlotte and Georgia Southern. Even ODU might make itself available if they feel desperate enough. And maybe that would be the right call, since CUSA and the Sun Belt will be fairly locked into their new memberships and the MAC, already at 13 would remain the only FBS option.
For Idaho, it's a tough a time as ever. Texas St. has the advantage of being in a close proximity to the other Sun Belt members, in comparison. Idaho and even NMSU remain far away with little value to the Sun Belt. It would not be shocking to see NMSU and Idaho seek even football-only Sun Belt membership with limited revenue in return to both schools as a means to secure a football home.
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Pawn Shop (2012)
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A Detroit pawn shop owner and his son incur the wrath of the city's most feared gangster in this comedy starring Garrett Morris, and featuring Reynaldo Rey. Rey (Morris) has been working in the same pan shop for nearly 30 years. In all that time, he's refused to let his adult son Mike (Foolish) become his own man. These days, Mike earns his keep working in the shop, where he's constantly bickering with his cheapskate dad and his eccentric co-worker Tony Cool Aide). But trouble starts to brew when someone swipes local thug Pierre's jewelry right out from under his nose, and police accuse Mike of dealing in stolen property. Now, with the law closing in on one side and Pierre (Joe Torry) looking for blood on the other, Mike is about to discover why doing the best thing isn't always the easiest thing.


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OCEANSIDE – The FBI and Oceanside police released surveillance photos Wednesday of a man suspected of robbing a Citibank branch Monday afternoon.
The robber walked into the bank on Oceanside Boulevard near Avenida del Oro about 3:30 p.m. and gave a teller a note demanding cash, the FBI said.
He left the bank, walked around the corner and disappeared.
Witnesses described the robber as Latino, 35 to 40 years old, 6 feet 1 inch to 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighing 200 to 230 pounds. He has a medium to heavy build with short, dark hair and was wearing a tight-fitting gray or olive-colored T-shirt, black slacks and dark shoes.
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BMW has launched a pair of two-wheel-driven versions of its X1 compact soft-roader, slicing a hefty $9200 from the range's entry point without any obvious trade-off in grip or control.
The Bavarian car maker may have 25 years of all-wheel-drive expertise beneath its belt, but has also honed its rear-drive dynamics over several generations of 3-, 5- and 7-Series sedans and is bringing that experience to its SUV range for the first time.
More performance and efficiency for less money and weight is the equation BMW has striven for - and after Drive's first taste of the rear-wheel-driven X1 models, it seems the company has mostly met its objectives.
The X1 sDrive18i model now opens the range from $45,700 plus on-road and dealer costs, in a plan to lure new buyers more familiar with Japanese compact soft-roaders into BMW showrooms.
The new base model is now within reach of high-end versions of popular Asian brands including the Honda CR-V Luxury ($42,790 plus costs), Mazda CX-7 Luxury Sports ($45,990), Nissan X-Trail Ti ($44,990), Subaru Forester XT Premium ($44,490), and Toyota RAV4 Cruiser L ($41,990).
Also joining the X1 range is a rear-drive version of the mid-spec turbo diesel X1 20d variant, which Drive sampled.
Priced from $49,300 (or $3400 less than its all-wheel-drive sibling), the sDrive20d is powered by the same 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbo diesel engine with 130kW of power at 4000rpm and a flexible 350Nm of torque from 1700 to 3000rpm, mated to either a six-speed manual or automatic transmission (a $2200 option).
BMW claims the manual version can accelerate to 100km/h in 8.1 seconds while returning a combined average of just 5.3L/100km, making it 0.3 seconds quicker and 0.5L/100km more frugal than its all-paw sibling.
We tested the auto version which, at 8.3 seconds, is also 0.3 seconds quicker to 100km/h and 0.3L/100km more economical.
Through a series of fast, sweeping country roads, the claimed 75kg weight loss was difficult to detect. When pushed, however, the sDrive's sharper dynamics begin to shine. Feeding power exclusively to the rear liberates the front wheels to deliver precise and well-weighted steering and relatively agile handling.
This was further exemplified through a twisty section of dirt road with steep cambers for water drainage. With no drive to the front wheels for traction assistance or unwanted understeer (where the front wheels don't turn as much as the driver would like - a fairly typical issue in front- and all-wheel-drive vehicles) through tight turns, the stability control system was only occasionally called on and body roll was notably minimised.
BMW's trademark heavy steering at low speeds mightn't appeal to all tastes, but dividends are yielded with a reassuring surefootedness during spirited driving.
The X1's suspension worked too busily, though, transmitting small lumps and bumps into the cabin despite rolling on modest 17-inch alloy wheels.
On the open road with cruise control set, we came within a whisker of achieving the fuel use claim of 5.2L/100km. Against an official combined usage of 5.9L/100km, we averaged a respectable 6.5L/100km at the end of our test that included both winding country roads and peak-hour urban snarls.
To improve efficiency during traffic congestion, both the two- and four-wheel-drive X1 20d variants get stop-start fuel-saving technology (when paired with a manual transmission). It saves fuel by switching off the engine when the car comes to a stop, and there is also an optimum-shift indicator that provides the driver with gearshift recommendations for more efficient driving.
Based on the 3-Series Touring wagon platform, the X1 offers between 420 and 1350 litres of cargo space with the rear seats upright and folded respectively. By comparison, a Premium-spec version of Subaru's top-selling Forester has a cargo volume of between 450 and 1610 litres.
The two new X1 sDrive models also follow a popular trend among car makers to offer cheaper two-wheel-drive variants to buyers who enjoy a high-riding position and rugged looks, without the weight and fuel penalties of a four-wheel-drive model. And it makes sense, too, as these vehicles typically don't stray far from the beaten track.
We haven't yet driven the entry-level sDrive18i, which is powered by a familiar 110kW/200Nm, 2.0-litre petrol four-cylinder engine (borrowed from the 120i hatch and 320i sedan). It accelerates from 0-100km/h in a claimed 9.7 seconds and has an average fuel use of 8.2 litres per 100 kilometres (8.4L for the auto).
With tough emissions and efficiency targets forcing car-makers to become greener, it might be only a matter of time before BMW's other all-wheel-drive models are offered in sDrive variants, too.
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" Brand: Lindt "
I found this bar of Lindt Intense Pear chocolate in Poundland the other day and have just eaten half of it, it's delicious even though the taste of pear isn't as strong as I'd have liked it to be.
It's dark chocolate and the chocolate has a lovely bitter flavour that says to me that it's good quality. There's loads of pieces of pear and almonds in the bar and that makes it sweeter overall than a plain bar of dark chocolate. The pear is candied and slightly crunchy as you bite a piece, the flavour of the fruit comes out loads stronger when you do bite into the pear so it's worth chewing this chocolate instead of sucking it like I usually do with Lindt.
The almonds have got a nice sweet crunch as well and they add something different to the bar, the taste of them goes well with the chocolate and the pear pieces and I love the individual flavours as well as the taste of them all together.
I was expecting the pear taste to be stronger than it was but I still wasn't disappointed because even though it's quite faint it does lie under the dark chocolate nice and enhances it. The chocolate isn't harsh at all and I love the sweet flavour that the pear gives it, the bar tastes like a very high quality chocolate and I think the combination of pear and almonds makes it taste so special.
The chocolate bar melts gorgeous in my mouth and even though I usually like chewing this one because of making the pear pieces crunch I do sometimes suck a square. It melts to a creamy and thick consistency and just feels so luxurious and delish!
The normal price will probably be about £1.60 like all the Lindt Excellence bars and I reckon that's well worth it for such a yummy chocolate treat.


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What's the Last Thing You Quit?
Asked by Jane Belanger
September 28, 2011
Elaine Scott
From Ocean Beach (Retail Associate)
I quit smoking a few years ago. It was really hard to give up. I'd smoked just about a pack a day for nearly 15 years. I knew I wanted to quit for the last five but I just kept putting it off. Or I'd quit for a few days or weeks and then go back to it. I'll never smoke again, because it's too hard to quit!
Abraham T.
From Mission Valley (Owner, SecureTaxi.com)
My job. I'm a biochemist and I have an MBA, and I was working for a bitoech company called Invitrogen Life Technologies here in San Diego. I quit to try to do my own thing. It's been about five years now since I quit. No looking back.
Todd Idziorek
From Downtown (Driver)
I quit my negative thinking in the workplace. I find that my best friend is a positive attitude. The best way to make it through the day is to have a positive attitude, all the time. I'm being politically correct — note that I did not say anything bad about the place I work!
Jane Belanger
From Downtown (Jane of all trades)
This column. I'm passing the baton — this will be the last installment of "Off the Cuff" under my watch. Thanks to all who were open enough to participate during my "Cuff" tenure the past few years!


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Taking pucks to the limbs seconds apart during the 2-1 loss to San Jose Monday, the Calgary Flames might have lost a set of blueliners.
Partners Jim Vandermeer and Cory Sarich were both lying in pain after a whistle in the third period -- a rare and scary sight to see.
Both skipped practice yesterday, and are questionable for the two-game trip that starts tonight in Dallas.
Sarich is likely the more serious of the two injuries.
Vandermeer returned to action in the third period. Sarich didn't.
"Everybody saw what happened to Cory," head coach Mike Keenan said of the Joe Thornton slapper he blocked in the third period.
"He's got a pretty sore foot today."
Fellow rearguard Robyn Regehr knows how much that hurts.
"Those were two pretty bad shots. I think they just hit them in bad spots. That's the tough thing," said Regehr.
"With Cory, he's moving and he opened up his foot. I've been hit on the inside of the foot like that a few times and that's the worst place to get hit -- on the ankle on the inside."
Luckier was Vandermeer, who was hit by a shot from Sharks defenceman Alexei Semenov.
If you can call any block that causes pain lucky.
"I think with Jim, he got it in the leg. I don't know what happened with the shin pad, if it moved or something like that, but it looked pretty painful, too," said Regehr.
Keenan had no information as to whether one or both will be able to make the trip to Dallas and then Minnesota for the back-to-back games tomorrow and Friday.
"We needed to give them some rest today, and evaluation later in the day," said Keenan following practice.
"Like any other coach, you always cringe a little bit when you see your players go down because of health issues."
Options are limited if neither can suit up tonight. Used as a forward recently, Adam Pardy could return to the blueline.
Beyond that, there's the slim chance Rhett Warrener will be medically cleared to return to game action and have his pro-rated salary squeezed under the cap.
"Hopefully we can get those guys healed up and get them ice and taken care of these next couple of days," said Regehr. "We need those guys."


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Why aid workers can't aid Palestinians
Why aid projects in Palestine are doomed to fail
Jeremy Wildeman, The Electronic Intifada
September 06, 2012
In my ten years of work in the aid sector in Palestine, I found there were two key problems that when combined made the delivery of effective aid nearly impossible: Israel's control of the borders and the major donors prioritizing their relationship with Israel. This leaves well-meaning aid workers and organizations in a difficult place, fearful of upsetting either Israel or its donor allies, because that could result in their being barred entry at the border, or losing funding for their projects and jobs.
As a result Israel gets to pick and choose which organizations can work in Palestine and, with the help of the major donors, is able to define a narrative for the occupation on its own terms: one that refers to an illusory "peace process," "capacity-building" and "development projects" that mask a reality of settler-colonialism and the confiscation of land from a defenseless people.
Aid organizations working in Palestine, which could counter that narrative through advocacy work that would raise awareness about conditions in Palestine in order to influence public opinion and build the political will in donor governments to pursue principled measures, instead feel compelled to engage in self-censorship to improve their chances at the border.
Designing aid projects under the illusion that there is an ongoing "peace process" between two equal sides who are at conflict with one another, rather than the reality of one side exercising total power over the other, dooms them to failure. Many of these projects are highly inappropriate. I have at times even found myself running them.
One of the worst projects I ever managed in Palestine required "teaching" Palestinian refugee children about human rights in refugee camps in Nablus during the second intifada. I bore no illusions that the implicit belief behind the funding was that the donor hoped we were teaching those children to respect Israeli rights (and women's rights of course), on the premise that there were two equal sides at "war" which needed "convincing" to live together in peace.
At that time those children were being abused by the Israeli army on a daily basis, could not sleep at night because their homes were being raided, many had been to prison, and many more were injured (or killed) in deadly clashes with the Israeli army.
Those children were suffering the effects of collective punishment inflicted upon them, in contravention of Article 33 of the 4th Geneva Convention which states that "no protected person may be punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed, and collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited."
My Palestinian colleagues scoffed at the human rights project. If anything, Israeli soldiers invading the city needed nongovernmental organization workshops to teach them about human rights.
In no way whatsoever did this project address those refugee children's problems. As a human rights project, it purposefully ignored the collective punishment and abuses carried out by the Israeli army. In the classes, it was horrific to see how each of the adolescent refugee boys and girls could so accurately comment on the position of a peer's body when imitating torture in an Israeli prison.
Working within the confines of aid
After working with innumerable foreign nationals in the aid sector in the West Bank, I am confident in my belief that the overwhelming majority of them travel travel there with the best of intentions and a sincere desire to help. Unfortunately those well-meaning individuals end up constrained within the structures of aid, and for most of them, challenging those structures could mean losing their jobs.
Richard Falk recently noted those disadvantages when compared to his unpaid role as a UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, allowing him to avoid the rigid institutional discipline that forces career aid workers to prioritize the interests of the West over what is actually useful for Palestinians ("Pros and cons of Western solidarity, Al Jazeera English).
With rising unemployment in Europe and the United States, that need to be employed puts further pressure on them to not lose those jobs. As one American explained to me in Ramallah following the 2008 financial crisis: "The job situation for me here in Ramallah is actually better than back home in the United States. It's better for me to stay here."
Aid vacuums
My own experience with aid in Palestine began with a heartfelt desire to provide humanitarian assistance for Palestinian youth in Nablus at the beginning of the second intifada. At that time, the city was devastated by conflict and curfews which could be imposed upon the city for days, weeks or months at a time. Violating those curfews would put you in mortal danger.
Regular Israeli military invasions and violent checkpoints shattered children's sense of security, while restricting their access to schools (or anywhere). Meanwhile, Western aid workers tended not to enter the city due to the danger and limits on access placed upon them by the government of Israel.
This led to a vacuum of assistance in places where aid was genuinely needed. In spite of the challenges of working in such an environment, I and my Palestinian colleagues were highly successful in providing education-focused activities for a large number of Palestinian children.
In the process of carrying out such work, we asked international volunteers to help us run activities. They were particularly good as instructors in English and intercultural communication skills. Although grateful for their support, we were careful to do our best not to provide them with a salary (with some necessary exceptions) or to fund their stay, in spite of tremendous pressure to do otherwise. In fact, we asked volunteers to cover the costs of their own accommodation and coordination. This was all based on the premise that aid should go toward the Palestinians who were in need.
Unlike the large international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), we competed fairly with local charities and business, not paying anyone (myself included) more than a fair local wage. If anything, we were too concerned with supporting as many employees as possible in a tough economy, than to participate in NGO wage-flation — providing high wages that local institutions could not compete with.
Yet in spite of our moral purism and financial efficiency, I was always conscious that I may not be doing enough, because I was not focusing on advocacy work against the occupation. It was, after all, the main source of all problems.
Instead of focusing on solving the conditions which necessitated our charity's formation, I had fallen into the trap of concentrating my efforts on finding resources for our charity to continue to exist and expand its services further. In the process I felt compelled to avoid direct advocacy work — writing about the effects of the occupation or engaging with the press — for fear of being barred entry at the border and rendered incapable of carrying out my work keeping our funding flowing and our staff employed.
I actively chose to silence my criticism of the occupation, just as I now as a scholar have trepidations repeating Stephen Walt's words about the Israel lobby and Ilan Pappé's research acknowledging the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. I was censoring myself, like other aid workers, in spite of all my best intentions.
The need to speak out
So long as aid in Palestine remains detached from the everyday realities of occupation and operates on the aggressor's terms, it will continue to be ineffective. It will continue to do harm. It is an ominous sign of its failure that the government of Israel has itself become an advocate of aid to the Palestinians and recently sought an International Monetary Fund loan on their behalf ("Israel sought $1 bln IMF loan for Palestinians, Reuters).
Palestinians are very much aware of the problems with aid and consider many projects to be inappropriate, such as the human rights project my former colleagues scoffed at. As Sam Bahour recently wrote, investment into Palestine is meaningless without an end to occupation (see "Palestine's Investments Require Divestment," Huffington Post). Aid needs to do more than provide Palestinians with new ways to cope with the effects of occupation.
Aid workers should strongly support organizations like the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) when it runs afoul of the government of Israel for providing practical support to Palestinians who are facing the demolition of their homes and villages.
They should refuse to provide aid on the terms of the aggressor, even if that means being denied entry into the West Bank and Gaza Strip. This is because aid has failed so completely in its mandate to improve Palestinians' lives, instead coming to serve the interests of the oppressor by sustaining the false veneer of a "peace process" — a false narrative of two relatively equal sides being in conflict — and subsidizing the costs of occupation for Israel.
Aid practitioners, such as myself, need to make this stand in order to help reform aid. They need to engage in advocacy against the occupation, because occupation and a historical record of ethnic cleansing that began in 1948 is the only reason Palestinians need aid in the first place. Until that happens, aid providers will not be addressing Palestinians' problems. Instead, they will be aiding occupation.
Jeremy Wildeman is a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter, where his research is on the effects of foreign aid on Palestinians. He cofounded the Nablus-based charity Project Hope. He has a longer essay on the role of development aid published by the Palestine Studies Group.


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Captain Juan Cabrillo finds a derelict cruise ship full of hundreds of corpses - the victims of the Responsivists, a group attempting to control the world's population by means of a deadly virus.
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Kovach, he was the consumate villain. Could picture him in my mind.
Juan Cabrillo and Max Hanley, as Scott portrayed them well.
Action packed, could make it a movie?
Recommend this read.
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Yet another excellent Cussler book. As much as i love Juan and the crew of the Oregon, i almost found myself cheering for the bad guys, But in the end Juan triumphs and i suppose its for the best.
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I definitely will buy more tickets to board the Oregon.
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Take the last 5 action/adventure movies you've watched, mash them together, and you've got this book. Bad dialogue? Check. Former Eastern European Soldier turned villain? Check. Near misses, perfect acrobatics and heroes who can't feel pain? Oh yeah. Impossibly strong, intelligent and handsome leading men with ruthlessly smart, beautiful and coy women? Puh-leeze.
Sure, there's goofy fun in listening to the book - I actually finished it, as opposed to some others, but I definitely feel like I could have spent that time listening to something better, and not so... generic.
My favorite line? Has to be the "Millions of lives hang in the balance. I know that sounds like a bad line from a spy film, but.."
When your characters call you out on your dialogue, you know something's wrong. Just sayin'.
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There are so many things one could say about Plague Ship: great story, great narration, great use of historical information. But, more than anything, I found it to be a sad story. Man's attempt to alter mankind's behavior by forcing change is just that ... sad. Good news, though, the good guys win.
I am a huge cussler fan but somehow this book slipped through my fingers when it came out. With not much good out currently I went hunting and to my JOY found this book. And what a Great Book it is. A great story . A must read for any cussler lover
"Should be under Fantasy, not Mystery"
Too many close calls with totally unrealistic escapes. More like a comic book than anything else.
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New Delhi: Actor Hrithik Roshan actually escaped death by inches as he was there at the Instanbul airport a little before three suicide bombers attacked, killing 36 and injuring close to 150 people.
The 42-year-old actor took to his Twoitter handle to share the news and said, "missed connecting flight at Istanbul n wer stuck at airport next flight ws next day,but took economy n flew out earlier. #Prayers4istanbul."
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Cuurtain Time Fall 1990 ANTA Rings Down the Curtain Editor's note: It is with regret that we print the following letter. To the Community Theater Association: ANTA, founded in 1960 by Arthur T. Andrewes, performed at the Horace Moses Theater on the Exposition grounds until 1964 when the group moved to Springfield College, where it has been in residence ever since. Arthur T. Andrewes, the heart and soul of ANTA, died in February, 1986, at the age of 50. The company had its memorial season for Arthur in 1986-87 and continued producing through the season of 1989-90. However, after 26 years in residence at Springfield College, the board of ANTA has decided it is the right time to ring down the curtain. Since there are so many community theater groups in the area, I feel sure our people will continue to be involved. Gini Andrewes, ANTA President
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Eminem wanted to diss Wayne & Kanye but Says "They would have fuckin' murdered me."
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Thanks so very much Ank, I'm so glad you like it!!It was - indeed - you bet it was, Jo!! Both of the times we were there!! Thanks so very much!!
Just beautiful!! The waterfall is so crisp against the darker background!! What a thrill to be able to stand there in person!! Thankyou for giving us the feeling that we are there!! :) :)
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This is a stunningly beautiful photo of one of the marvels of nature. My goodness this is tall, Hanne. Tell Bent that this is one of my favorites of his photos - - ever! Love it!
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Systemonic AG, a German wireless-communication-chip company, today completed a second round of funding, receiving $30 million from an investment consortium.
Dresden-based Systemonic is developing a highly flexible platform technology aimed at broadband wireless communication markets such as high-end telecommunications and Internet content and video streaming. Systemonic plans to ship its first chipsets at the end of the first quarter of 2001.
The investment round was led by Apax Europe IV, a technology investment consortium that includes Lehman Brothers, Robertson Stephens' Bayview 2000, Atlas Venture, and Krone mt. The funding will be used to expand the business into the United States and Asia.
Systemonic was founded in June 1999 by Gerhard Fettweis and Michael Bolle, two experts in wireless communication. Their technology, called OnDSP, uses software to realize functionality and flexibility in broadband-wireless digital signal processors. Systemonic can thus quickly support early or late changes in emerging wireless standards as well as provide simultaneous support for converging wireless standards, according to the company.
In addition, Systemonic's approach to designing its DSP-based application-specific standard products (ASSPs) for broadband wireless systems reduces design time and production costs, the company said. Systemonic's technology is based on research at the University of Dresden into automating the design methodology and architecture for DSPs.
"Systemonic has developed a breakthrough technology that can be applied across many areas of the wireless semiconductor market," said Christian Reitberger of Apax Partners, the investment advisor of Apax Europe IV. "The flexibility of the solution is extremelycompelling for equipment providers facing the challenge of quickly changing standards."
"We are delighted by the investment consortium that has been put together, as it allows us to move aggressively into the U.S. and Asia while at the same time consolidating our position in Europe," said Karl Lange, executive vice president of sales and marketing and acting CEO of Systemonic.
Systemonic co-founder Fettweis is the Mannesmann Mobile Telecommunications Chair at the Technical University of Dresden. Bolle is an expert on digital audio broadcasting at Robert Bosch GmbH. The company currently employs 35 engineers.
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DRAMATISTS, young and young at heart, are being called on to audition for Chard Amateur Theatre Society's panto of choice for this year, Aladdin.
The try-outs for the show by Eric Fowler will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday September 2-3 at Crowshute House in Chard.
Auditions start at 7pm for children on September 2, and at 8pm for adults, with a 7.30pm audition for adults only the evening after.
Individuals will be expected to sing and perform a reading. Come prepared with your own material, or expect to be given songs and a script to perform in your slot.