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- Thanks Laurent, I agree it would be good to have in the Guidelines. It would be interesting to see how others are doing this and I hope this thread continues a bit (hint hint to all lurkers).
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>>> laurent.lemeur@... 05/02/08 10:09 PM >>>Doing it the old way: choosing a keyword and inserting it in the slug for all stories. Most news agencies must still accommodate with old formats and practices.
> [Laurent Le Meur: Currently most wires use a slug term for this
> purpose (ex. OLY2008)]
> Could you please expand on that?
Re NewsML 1 solutions: AssociatedWith (and DerivedFrom) relate a news item to another news item.
If you want to associate a news item with an entity (an event, a recurring topic...) there is a solution in NewsML 1:
TopicOccurrence = An indication that a particular topic occurs within the content of a NewsComponent. The optional HowPresent attribute indicates the nature of that topic's occurrence. The value of the Topic attribute must consist of a # character followed by the value of the Duid attribute of a Topic in the current document.
It is a little complex to use (you need a local Topic structure), but I guess you'll find some information in the "NewsML 1.2 guidelines", available on the IPTC Web site.
By the way it would be good to have a NewsML 1 agreed upon solution for this, inserted in the guidelines.
Laurent Le Meur
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> Thanks for all the responses. These are very helpful.
> [Laurent Le Meur: Note NewsML-G2 defines a property named <instanceOf>
> specifically for this purpose ("thread" or "fixture" like "market
> opening").]
> [Misha: When using the NewsML-G2 Subject property to tie together News
> Items about an event one would place an Event identifier in the
> Subject property.]
> We are using NewsML 1.2 right now, so we may not be able to make use
> of the NewsML-G2 features. Though it appears that that may be a
> standard way of creating the association between different stories of
> a "thread". Also if all wires use this feature, it may make it easier
> for news processing systems.
> [Laurent Le Meur: Currently most wires use a slug term for this
> purpose (ex. OLY2008)]
> Could you please expand on that?
> [Jayson Lorenzen: /NewsML/NewsItem/NewsManagement/AssociatedWith:
> Create a document that identifies the thread and ties other documents
> together...]
> [Takahiro Fujiwara: /NewsML/NewsItem/NewsManagement/DerivedFrom: You
> can describe details in FormalName attribute]
> These are interesting suggestions.
> We would ideally like to identify an element that is set by the wires
> themselves or can be deduced on our end with a reasonable degree of
> reliability. Using the AssociatedWith element and creating a "meta"
> document would imply that this identifying document will be stored in
> the news storage system.
> Also it appears Reuters uses the
> /NewsML/NewsItem/NewsComponent/NewsComponent/NewsLines/SlugLine
> element to identify/set the
> "thread" in NewsML.
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> Thanks Laurent, I agree it would be good to have in thePA runs on a 24-hour news cycle. Our wire services are driven using
> Guidelines. It would be interesting to see how others
> are doing this and I hope this thread continues a bit
> (hint hint to all lurkers).
NITF, so we use du-key/@key and @version to indicate the threading of
our stories, with series/@series-part to indicate how pieces of the
story join together. Our du-key/@key is derived from the slugline.
In newsML terms, we map du-key/@key onto NewsItemId - so stories can
grow and have write-throughs whilst retainign the sane NewsItemId. We
spot parent and child stories, and use AssociatedWith to link up fromt
he child to the parent, and NewsItemRef in a
NewsComponent[/Role/@FormalName='Supporting'] hierarchy to link down
from parents to children.
Unfortunately what we don't have is a mechanism for carrying stories
across multiple days. Having not had the discussion with Editorial about
long-running stories and whether they really do 'replace' each other
across days, I'm not sure of we'd keep re-using the sane NewsItemId and
DateId and just jeep increasing RevisionId - if not, I think we'd create
a new dateId/NewsItemId pair and use DerivedFrom to point to yesterday's
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January 23, 2009
The introduction of the European Astra and Vectra models in the late-1990s represented the dawning of a new era for Holden. It was an era which the company for the first time could offer a full range of models that were competitive with anything on offer from its rivals.
Holden had a major problem almost from the very start. It was a one car company. It didn't matter so much back in the 1950s when buyers were happy to get their hands on whatever was available, but as cars became more plentiful so their choice was greater.
It really hit home in the '70s when the oil crises created a demand for smaller more efficient cars and all of a sudden Holden had a problem. They tried the Torana, a moderate success, and there was the Gemini, but they lacked the sort of models that would compete with the likes of Toyota, Nissan and Mazda and they didn't have the funding needed to develop new models of their own.
The Camira was an attempt at developing a local small car, albeit based on the Opel Ascona, but poor reliability and appalling build quality ensured the Camira would be laughed off by a market by then used to Japanese quality and reliability.
Attempts at joint ventures with Nissan and Toyota produced the original Astra, a rebadged Nissan Pulsar, and later the Nova and Apollo, rebadged Corolla and Camry respectively, but these weren't really seen as competitors to their mother models and didn't really capture the interest of the market.
Holden had to find models that were unique to its showrooms, ones that would legitimately rival their Japanese rivals. Enter the Astra and Vectra, both rebadged Opels.
The first Opel-based Astra was launched in 1996, the Vectra a year later. Holden hasn't looked back, for the first time it could truly claim to be a multi-model carmaker.
The first of the Opel-based Astras was already an old model when it arrived here early in 1996. It had been on sale in Europe since 1993, but was due to be replaced by an all-new model and that car arrived in local showrooms in 1998.
It has undergone a number of upgrades since its introduction, but the Astra that is now number four on the small car sales charts is little changed from the 1998 original. Its replacement is being shown at this year's Frankfurt Motor Show, which means we can expect it here in Holden's showrooms next year.
Available as a three or five-door hatch, or four-door sedan – there's also the convertible but that really falls into another category – all are attractive with contemporary European styling that make them stand out on the road.
Entry to the Astra club is via the City, with the CD on offer for those who want a little more in the way of creature comforts. For a more sporty drive there's the SRi and the Turbo, but they really appeal to a different buyer than the regular Astras on which we'll focus for this column.
Power comes from a 1.8-litre four-cylinder engine on all but the sporty SRi, which has a 108 kW 2.2-litre version of the same engine as standard.
With double overhead camshafts working four valves per cylinder, variable intake manifolding, and sequential fuel-injection the Astra's 1.8-litre ECOTEC engine puts out a healthy 90 kW on regular unleaded. If you pay the price to run it on PULP you'll get two kilowatts more.
A five-speed manual is the standard transmission across all models, but it isn't the best shifting manual around. It's typically Opel, easy enough to use, but not very precise and a little rubbery in feel, and definitely not sporty. A four-speed electronic auto is optional and maybe the best choice.
The Astra's suspension is MacPherson Strut with gas shocks and a stabiliser bar at the front, with a compound torsion bar and trailing arms, progressive rate coil springs and gas shocks at the rear.
Power rack-and-pinion steering is standard across the board. Likewise disc brakes can be found at all four corners, the fronts featuring ventilated rotors. ABS and traction control are optional on the CD.
Wheels are 14 x 5.5-inch with full wheel covers on the City, but the CD gets attractive 15 x 6-inch alloys as standard.
Inside the City you'll find plenty of standard features, like an adjustable steering column, power mirrors, audible headlights 'on' warning, breakaway brake and clutch pedals, height adjustable driver's seat, cloth trim, airbags for the driver and front seat passenger, lap/sash seat belts for all passengers, seat belt pre-tensioners, front seat belt force limiters, seat belt height adjusters, 60/40 split-fold rear seat, immobiliser, and a sound system with CD player and six speakers.
The CD boasts even more with a leather-trimmed steering wheel, velour trim, power windows, heated rear view mirrors, and cruise. Air-conditioning is an option on all models.
With its zinc-galvanised body electrostatically dip-primed the chances of corrosion becoming a problem are minimal, and only likely to surface in the long term, if at all.
Side protection from shopping centre bumps is quite good with well-designed side rub strips, while front and rear bumpers are sturdy and will withstand most of the bump and grind of day-to-day driving.
The annoying dark staining that dulls the shine of alloy wheels on many European-sourced cars is a problem on the Astra. It's also a sign of heavy brake wear, although most owners say they're happy with pad life which is generally in excess of 50,000 km.
Mechanically the Astra is reliable with few faults reported across the board, although it's worth noting one owner's problems with the five-speed after just 75,000 km.
Owners report very good fuel consumption of 7.0 litres/100 km on a trip, and just a little more around town.
Like most modern European cars the Astra remains tight and few from rattles and squeaks as mileage accumulates.
Peter Cain owns a 2001 Astra CD auto and reckons it's fantastic after 60,000 trouble free kilometres. His only complaint, a minor one, is the firmness of the seats.
Max Blenkin also reckons the Astra is very good, despite having to replace the gearbox in his 2001 Astra City after just 75,000 km. It started as a clunk going around corners that got worse until it stopped dead one day. Gearbox problem aside, Max rates the Astra as the best car he's ever owned with effortless performance, good handling, economy and comfort, his only complaint being the "clunky" gearshift.
Doug Stockwell is another satisfied Astra owner. Doug owns a 2001 CD auto sedan which he says performs extremely well, is quiet and tight as a drum with no squeaks or rattles of any sort. His only problem has been with the instrument panel, which shut down completely and took two weeks to replace, which was excessive in Max's view. Apart from that he's more than happy.
Jennifer Cass bought a new Astra CD in August 2002 and she says all was fine until about October that year when she became aware of a rubbing noise that appeared when the car had been warmed up and she was taking off from a rest. The noise ceased once the speed rose, but it became progressively worse, almost unbearable every time she reversed. The car went back to the dealership under warranty five times, and they fitted a damper to pull the calliper back, machined the discs, fitted new discs and callipers and in August 2003 fitted a new part released overseas to fix the problem. The noise reappeared a few weeks later and once again has become progressively worse. The dealer has told me that it's the ABS self-checking protocol, but I am not convinced, and I have heard others have the same issue.
• smart European styling
• tight, rattle free body
• good corrosion protection
• zippy four cylinder motor
• clunky gearshift
• miserly fuel consumption

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My poor Brocky boy has been up and crying for the last four hours and I've tried everything!! I had to wake up his dad from his mighty slumber (I won't even start on that). So just wanted to say FU FORMULA!!!! I want a breast fed baby that I can sooth....maybe I'm dreaming that breast feeding makes happy content babies and in reality were all up with crying newborns. Our Pedi told us today that he's fine sleeping through the night now (6 hours) so as FTP we thought he would lmao!!! We're idiots!! This poor child has idiot parents.
Re: All nighter...ish
I'm so sorry - that is rough. You might want to try a different formula. Maybe that one upset his tummy?
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Oh how I wish they would sleep through the night if they knew they could. Avery slept four hours straight the other night and I when I woke up and realized how long it had been I gave her a huge kiss and hug and said thank you. Felt like a new woman. lol
Seriously though like Kary said maybe a different formula, or if you haven't tried mylicon that works wonders for upset tummies. We had a couple of bad tummy all nighters due to gas and constipation. That stuff really helped take care of it long enough to let her rest a little.
Re: All nighter...ish
Mylicon worked wonders for DD who had issues with gas.
And amen to what a couple of hours of consecutive sleep can do for the mom of a newborn. Caroline went 4.5 hours last night and I could have run a marathon I felt so rested!
Re: All nighter...ish
Lexi also did 4 hours between feedings last night! Back to back, too! So I feel incredible! She's starting to cluster feed in the early evening now, which I believe is her "tanking up" for the night. I'll take that over middle of the night cluster feeding any day!
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by Jon Markman | May 13, 2014 9:31 am
Stocks rose materially higher Monday, pushing the Dow Jones Industrials and S&P 500 into record territory, as first-quarter earnings season begins to wind down with mostly better-than-expected results from companies.
Technology and small-cap stocks are rebounding from recent lows, and merger activity remains strong, providing a firm undertone to the trading landscape. Private investors figure that if companies are willing to use their cash to buy companies after a lot of due diligence, they might as well, too. And that's my strategy, as well, as my buy list is stocked with bullish plays.
An ideal way that traders can get positioned in stocks for a lot less capital is by using options, which allow you to control 100 shares of underlying stocks for a fraction of the price. The great thing is that when you buy options for their own value, you don't have to exercise them and you're not obligated to purchase the shares, but you do benefit – and often significantly – when the stock moves up if you have bullish call options, or if the stock moves down if you hold bearish put options.
But, as I'm biased to the bull side[1] at the moment, let's look at a smart way to play one of the best-known stocks with much less capital.
Consumer-products maker Procter & Gamble (PG)[2] produces such iconic American grocery store goods as Tide, Oil of Olay, Head and Shoulders and Pantene.
While consumer staples manufacturers were left out of Monday's rally, they were the strongest during the recent downturn. Shares of consumer-staples stocks are performing very well this year, and PG has been among the best. The stock pulled back last week before rallying 1.2% this past Wednesday. It should not have a problem regaining the $83.50 area.
You could certainly buy the stock at around $82 a share, but the way I recommend trading it is by buying call options to the tune of about $260 a contract, which will offer you greater leverage on the stock's move and, thus, greater reward.
Buy the PG June $80 calls (PG140621C00080000) at $2.60 or less.
Set up to sell the position at my initial target of $3.30. And place a stop loss to exit the position at $2.10, good after 11:00 a.m. ET only.
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Jun. 22, 2009
It looks easy from a distance,
easy and lazy, even,
until you stand up to the plate
and see the fastball sailing inside,
an inch from your chin,
or circle in the outfield
straining to get a bead
on a small black dot
a city block or more high,
a dark star that could fall
on your head like a leaden meteor.
The grass, the dirt, the deadly hops
between your feet and overeager glove:
football can be learned,
and basketball finessed, but
there is no hiding from baseball
the fact that some are chosen
and some are not—those whose mitts
feel too left-handed,
who are scared at third base
of the pulled line drive,
and at first base are scared
of the shortstop's wild throw
that stretches you out like a gutted deer.
There is nowhere to hide when the ball's
spotlight swivels your way,
and the chatter around you falls still,
and the mothers on the sidelines,
your own among them, hold their breaths,
and you whiff on a terrible pitch
or in the infield achieve
something with the ball so
ridiculous you blush for years.
It's easy to do. Baseball was
invented in America, where beneath
the good cheer and sly jazz the chance
of failure is everybody's right,
beginning with baseball.
It's the birthday of best-selling novelist Dan Brown, (books by this author) born in Exeter, New Hampshire (1964). He grew up on the campus of Phillips Exeter Academy, where his father was a teacher. He liked to read, but he read the classics or nonfiction. He went to college, got married, and he and his wife moved to Los Angeles, where he tried and failed to make it in the music business.
He went to Tahiti for a vacation, and he found a book on the beach called Doomsday Conspiracy, by Sydney Sheldon. Dan Brown realized that he hadn't read any contemporary, commercial fiction since he was young and read The Hardy Boys, so he decided to try Doomsday Conspiracy. He said, "I read the first page … and then the next … and then the next. Several hours later, I finished the book and thought, 'Hey, I can do that.'" So he went home and started writing, beginning with articles and small projects, but in the back of his head he was trying to think of a premise for a thriller.
He went back to New Hampshire to visit Exeter, and while he was there, one of the students was detained by the U.S. Secret Service because of a political comment he made in an e-mail to a friend. It was the early days of e-mail, and Dan Brown was amazed that Secret Service was able to access that sort of information. So he did some research on the CIA, and that led to research on the National Security Agency, and he said, "The more I learned about this ultra-secret agency and the fascinating moral issues surrounding national security and civilian privacy, the more I realized it could be a great backdrop for a novel." So he started writing, and a couple of years later, he published his first novel, Digital Fortress (1998), about a cryptographer for the NSA. He kept writing thrillers: Angels & Demons (2000), set in Vatican City and centered around a secret society called the Illuminati; and Deception Point (2001), about a team of scientists and intelligence agents searching for extraterrestrial life in the Arctic.
And then he wrote his most famous book, The Da Vinci Code (2003). He heard a theory that there were secret messages in Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Last Supper, and he started to construct an elaborate plot involving a character he had already written about in Angels and Demons, the Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon. The plot was complex, so he figured out the details while he went jogging every morning. He said, "I would go running with a Dictaphone and discuss the plot aloud with myself. I felt like a juggler who was trying to keep 13 balls in the air simultaneously. Imagine if someone had found the Dictaphone. They would have heard a panting guy talking about Rome and Mary Magdalene's child and assassinations — and would have turned it in to the police!" But Dan Brown took those ideas and wrote The Da Vinci Code, and it became an international best seller, with 81 million copies in print.
This September, Doubleday will publish Dan Brown's newest novel featuring Robert Langdon: The Lost Symbol.
It's the birthday of science fiction writer Octavia Butler, (books by this author) born in Pasadena, California (1947). Her father was a shoe shiner who died when she was a baby, and her mother worked as a maid. Octavia was raised by her mother, grandmother, and numerous other relatives. She said that she was "a perennial out-kid," tall for her age, awkward, bad at sports, comfortable with adults but shy around kids. She was teased and bullied. She started writing when she was 10 years old. She said, "I began with horse stories, because I was crazy over horses, even though I never got near one. At 11, I was writing romances, and I'm happy to say I didn't know any more about romance than I did about horses. When I was 12 … I was watching this godawful movie on television. … It was one of those where the beautiful Martian arrives on Earth and announces that all the men on Mars have died and they need more men. None of the Earthmen want to go! And I thought, 'Geez, I can write a better story than that.' I got busy writing." And she went on to become a best-selling and critically acclaimed science fiction writer, one of the only African-American women in a field that is so dominated by white men. In 1995, she received the McArthur "genius" grant — the first science fiction writer to do so. She's the author of many books, including Patternmaster (1976), Parable of the Sower (1993), Kindred (1979), and Fledgling (2005).
It's the birthday of novelist Erich Maria Remarque, (books by this author) born in Osnabrück, Germany (1898). Remarque was training to be an elementary school teacher, but he was drafted into the German army in WWI. He was wounded in battle and spent most of the war in bed recuperating, but he went on to write the greatest novel about WWI: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929). It begins: "We are at rest five miles behind the front. Yesterday we were relieved, and now our bellies are full of beef and haricot beans. We are satisfied and at peace."
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The Rush Limbaugh Tucson Shooter ad has recently come under fire for its insensitivity and terrible timing (being unfortunately placed near the site of the recent shooting), though it isn't the first ad to draw controversy for being ill-conceived.
Indeed, advertising has long been fraught with missteps and miscalculations, as this collection of advertising fails demonstrates. So while the Rush Limbaugh Tucson Shooter ad might be the latest dramatic example of a disastrous advertisement, it is not the first and certainly won't be the last.
29 Controversial Marketing Fails
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Dolce & Gabbana Gets Overly Sexual in New Controversial Ads
Controversial Support Bra Ad
Poorly Placed Advertising
Misspelled Signs
Awarding Controversial Ads


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Linda Davidson
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley poses with Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown and House Speaker Mike Busch and supporters after signing the Civil Marriage Protection Act of 2012 legalizing same-sex marriage in the state in Annapolis on March 1, 2012.
There is no good reason religious people should oppose marriage equality. In fact, there's every good reason, including religious reasons, for supporting the freedom to marry.
This November, Maryland voters will have the historic opportunity to extend the rights and responsibilities of marriage to gay and lesbian couples. Specifically, Marylanders will vote on Question 6, asking them to approve or reject a marriage equality bill state legislators passed earlier this year.
Should voters affirm the law, Maryland would join six other states and the District of Columbia – as well as become the first state below the Mason-Dixon Line – that currently allow loving and committed same-sex couples to marry. It would also make Maryland the first state (or one of the first states, depending on the results of Maine and Washington's marriage equality referenda) to approve of marriage equality at the ballot box.
In short, approving marriage equality at the ballot box in Maryland would be a historic moment in the fight for "liberty and justice for all."
Some opponents of equality are claiming that allowing loving and committed gay and lesbian couples to marry somehow poses a threat to religious freedom. As a recent report by my colleagues at the Center for American Progress shows, Maryland is one of many states that has demonstrated the freedom to marry and the freedom to worship are wholly compatible with one another.
Earlier this year, the Maryland Legislature passed and Gov. Martin O'Malley into law a bill that extended marriage equality to same-sex couples. This bill ensures that religious institutions can continue to believe and practice their faith as they choose, unchanged by the law. Indeed, although such a freedom of religion is already guaranteed in the Constitution, the proposed law goes out of its way to reassure religious groups of that protection.
In fact, no clergyperson of any denomination/faith is required to officiate at any wedding, gay or straight. A clergyperson has the right to decline any request to preside at a marriage without giving any reason for doing so. That is already the law.
Maryland lawmakers also went a step further by including language exempting religious institution or organization from certain laws that would otherwise outlaw discrimination against same-sex couples. For example, even though it will remain illegal to deny a same-sex couple service at a restaurant in the state of Maryland, religious institutions can choose to not open their doors to same-sex couples for rehearsal dinners, wedding ceremonies, and for other marriage-related accommodations.
Maryland is not unique in providing these kinds of exemptions. In fact, every state that has passed a marriage equality bill has included some type of religious exemption language, according to the Center for American Progress report.
And just in case voters in Maryland needed a reminder about the bill's religious freedom provisions, 75 percent of the referendum language itself is not about marriage equality, but instead about the types of religious exemption provisions that lawmakers included in the original bill:
In Maryland and elsewhere, the state is in no way muzzling religious freedoms by allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry. Instead, I would maintain that the separation of church and state is being violated in the absence of a marriage equality law – violated not by the state, but by religious institutions themselves. Usually, when we speak of the separation of church and state, we are concerned that the state might impinge on the rights and freedoms promised religious institutions in the Constitution. But in the case of marriage equality, we see religious institutions trying to impose their will and their faith on the body politic, attempting to use faith and scripture to keep the state from guaranteeing "liberty and justice for all" as promised in the Constitution.
We can't have it both ways. If separation of church and state is good and appropriate for the protection of the church, it should also be good and appropriate for the protection of the state from undue influence by religion. Maryland's Roman Catholic bishops' caution that marriage equality "infringe[s] upon the religious liberties of individuals and institutions" displays either an ignorance of what the law actually says, or an intentional distortion of the truth.
I believe in the people of Maryland and their ability to separate truth from distortion. Marylanders know what "fair" is. And they believe in "fair." When the Constitution promises "liberty and justice for all," come November, voting "yes" on Question 6, Maryland voters will make the word "all" mean "all" in Maryland.
The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson is bishop the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, in Washington, D.C.
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Craig Costello, aka KR or KRINK, street artist and founder of his handmade ink and spray company, recently painted the outside of The Museum of Image and Sound in Sao Paulo, Brazil as part of a new exhibit entitled 'Rojo Nova.'
Rojo is an open independent creative consortium with headquarters in Spain, Italy and Brazil that promotes and supports the contemporary arts; they couldn't have chosen a more contemporary artist than Craig Costello to give the museum a new look.
Whimsical Dripping Chandeliers
Delicious Dripping Photography
Graffiti Streetwear Mashups
Paint Dripping Kicks
Unhealthy Gender Bashing
Craig Costello Sprays the Museum of Image and Sound
- By: Katie CordreySep 12, 2010
References: krink & cultofbeauty
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Sonic, Today's Home, South Plains Telephone Co-op and the Camp Fire Council of Lubbock, all located off of N. University Avenue, have been recognized by the City Wide Pride Committee.
The committee's goal is to rid Lubbock of trash and other unsightly waste.
Drs. Shelby and Brian Green, owners of Green's Family Dentistry, have relocated their practice to 4903 82nd St., Suite 20.
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Fans say bicycle polo is a great workout, and is less hazardous than many other weekend sports.
"There's a perception that it's dangerous, but the reality is that it's a very safe sport," said Aaron Meisner, a stockbroker from Baltimore who founded the Mount Washington Bicycle Polo Association with his brother, Dan. "It's an amazing workout without drudgery."
Three years ago, the brothers invited friends to play along with them as a one-time experiment. They had a great time and have tried to keep it going ever since. Now a core group of six people meets Sunday afternoons at a suburban park in Pikesville, not far from Meisner's Mount Washington home.
Bike polo in the United States is still a very small pastime, with no one really keeping track of how many people play it. One official estimated at least 500 players, but many horse polo players do some training on bicycles, too.
Sometimes, Meisner's group draws up to 12 players -- and curious looks from passers-by.
The game
With a call of "Tallyho!" one of those core players, Baltimore architect Doug McCoach, rides onto the field and draws his mallet back to hit the ball. He's aiming to get the grapefruit-sized ball between two goal posts on the opposite end of the field.
The players ride bikes with special U-shaped handlebars and must have just one brake for the rear tire on the left side to keep the right side free for mallet swinging. Like horse polo, a match is divided into four 7 1/2-minute "chukkars," or quarters, with breaks in between.
Officially, the game is played four against four, with substitutes, but the Meisners' team will play with fewer depending on how many show up.
"We play by the rules, but we do not take it to extremes," Aaron Meisner said. "For us, it's about having fun. Nobody's even really keeping score most of the time."
Most rules deal with right of way to keep players from crashing into each other.
"You are swinging around a wooden mallet," he said. "There's some danger involved, but it's relatively minor compared to a lot of other activities."
On a field, there's little chance of getting road rash from nasty falls or of being hit by a truck, Meisner said.
In the last three years, the Mount Washington group has traveled to Charlottesville, Va., and Philadelphia to play. The group plans to get together with a couple of other groups soon at a horse polo field in Potomac, Md.
Taking it on the road
Bill Matheson, vice president of the Bicycle Polo Association of America, plays every day and is a member of a group of about two dozen people in South Carolina who meet regularly to play.
"I just like it because it's fun, and I'm good at it," he said.
Matheson, who lives in Aiken, S.C., started playing at 15 -- almost 35 years ago in New York. He's competed across the country and even in India, where the Cycle Polo Federation of India claims there are about 10,000 players.
Polo's history
Polo is said to be one of the oldest sports in the world. The first recorded game in 600 B.C. was between the Turkomans and Persians and may have started with soldiers batting the skulls of their slain opponents around the battlefield, Matheson said.
The British picked up the sport in the 1850s in India, and the game made its way to the British Isles -- where the first clubs were formed in the 1870s. Around the same time, the bicycle was evolving. Since a bicycle was more affordable than a set of horses needed for a traditional polo match, the common man's version evolved on two wheels.
The rules and style of the game vary around the world. There is even a related game played in Germany and Eastern Europe in which players strike the ball with their front wheels, Matheson said.
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When we arrived in Tucson on Sunday afternoon, we went to University Memorial Hospital, where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was in intensive care. It was chaotic. Frustrated police officers did their best to direct heavy traffic through a maze of satellite trucks and news vehicles that lined every nearby street.
But people who wanted to pay their respects weren't deterred. They managed to find a spot to park and walked back to the hospital. Nearly all of them carried something–candles, bunches of flowers, and hastily drawn posters with pictures and expressions of regret and sympathy. They laid them down on the bright green lawn in the circular drive front of the hospital, many of them praying as they did so. That makeshift memorial has been growing ever since.
On Wednesday the shrine was easily six times larger. Hundreds of candles had been lined up to form a long, curving pathway to the hospital entrance. The crowds were bigger, too. Many candles had been extinguished by the occasional gust of wind, but people had left dozens of butane lighters behind and there were plenty of eager hands to re-light them.
People told us they came to show their support for the wounded inside the hospital. Some were quite emotional, openly weeping as they read the messages on posters and banners.
Needless to say, the hospital was not operating normally. On Monday officials asked every incoming patient to show identification, and that caused a line to quickly back up outside the entrance. Some of the people arriving were obviously quite frail. One elderly woman with a cane was clearly in pain, and a security guard dashed inside to find her a wheelchair. Yet in spite of the inconvenience, nobody complained.
There is a similar, smaller shrine several miles away, on the street corner outside Rep. Giffords' district office. The office never closed after the shooting, even though two staffers were wounded and Community Outreach Director Gabe Zimmerman was killed. The Congresswoman's Communications Director, C. J. Karamargin, told us she would want them to be available to help their constituents. Karamargin said, "Keeping the office open was really important to us. It was also important for us to send a message that no act of violence was going to deter us from doing the job that the Congresswoman wanted us to do."


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Do you have what it takes to get accepted?
In an interview with PoetsAndQuants.com, Derrick Bolton, Stanford's head of admissions, says just how competitive the process is. The 390 member class of 2011 was chosen from a pool of 7,546 applicants. That's 18 applicants for every seat.
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Iggy Azalea Is Ready to Rule Summer in Her Bikini
Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" is primed to become this year's song of the Summer, but the rapping beauty took a break from her success for a bikini-filled yacht vacation with her boyfriend, Nick Young. Iggy shared several snaps of her bikini boat trip, including a few where she was taking in the sun with her basketball player beau. Iggy's vacation came just after her hit song "Fancy" secured the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for a second week in a row. Her other song "Problem" with Ariana Grande is currently at the No. 2 position, putting her in the same company as The Beatles as the only acts to ever claim the top two spots simultaneously with their first two Hot 100 entries. If those facts aren't convincing you that Iggy is about to have the best Summer ever, "Fancy" has already inspired a viral lip-sync video from an adorable father-daughter pair.
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Best Kids Parties: Le Petit Prince
A beloved book translated into a beautiful party. Elaine shares: Based on my lifelong obsession with the book Le Petit Prince and because our little prince Félix is half French, we embraced the celestial theme and turned our garden into Asteroid B-612!
The end result of days of crafting and cooking with my mother and a few dear and very clever friends, made my husband and I, my little guy and all our wonderful party guests dance with giggles of joy.
While first birthday parties tend to be concocted for the whims and fancies of grown-ups (myself included), we still wanted to make sure Félix and his playmates (ranging from 4 months to 10 years old) needs were met as well. To encourage multi age play, we placed a large picnic blanket on the lawn with swirly planet-like balls and other toys for all to enjoy. We also created a ball pit "crater" with a plastic kiddie pool, which was a huge hit among all age groups! A bubble machine spewed bubbles along garden pathways, a basket of sidewalk chalk tempted budding artists, and clusters of star shaped helium balloons added to the fun!
To create an otherworldly little prince party atmosphere on a realistic budget, we stuck with the simple color palette from the book (pastel blue, green, yellow, and white), and bedecked the garden with multitudinous amounts of handmade tissue poms, balloons, and hand glittered foil stars. To share and celebrate the first 12 months of Félix, we took 12 photos, from day one through the 11th month, and stuck them in the center of each glittery star hung out in order under our terrace to document the amazing progression. Large swaths of pastel linen and table cloths, (left over from previous sewing projects and borrowed from my mothers table linen collection), served triple duty as pops of party color, outdoor space dividers, and unsightly corner maskers. A garland of paper doves, (found in the wedding section of the dollar store), served as the little prince's great escape using a flock of migrating wild birds and directing our guests down the pathway to our backyard celebration.
Since it was a hot summers day, we opted for simple refreshing organic salads of the macaroni, couscous, spring Greens, and mixed berry variety, coupled with tiny herbed goat cheese balls, baguette bites and prosciutto mozzarella spirals , as well as a simple veggie, pita and hummus platter. For dessert (my favorite!) I made a tower of mini carrot cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, and larger vanilla and buttercream options in pastel green and blues. There was also a delicious lime rose pound cake shaped like a rose in bloom and protected under a glass dome just as the Little Prince cared for his beloved rose. Additionally there was a heaping plate of hand decorated sugar cookies stamped with birthday messages for our Prince Félix!
Since this was an adult and child friendly affaire, and the temperature was soaring, we made tons of homemade old fashioned lemonade from the lemons in our garden for kids and adults alike, as well as a chilled white peach sangria and a selection of summery beers for grown-ups only. There was also mini water bottles, sparkling water, organic apple juice boxes. for the masses.
Baskets of marbled sidewalk chalk and mini bubbles topped with pairs of doves (again a wedding dollar store purchase with a reference to the migrating wild birds) were take-home favors that could be broken out and played with during the course of the festivities. Little tags with quotes and illustrations from the book adorned each favor basket.
All in all it was a magical day for Félix and all involved! YAY!
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A Valentine for ValerieFebruary 13, 2013
This week is meant to be a celebration of true love all around the world. We sneak flowers into our loved ones' offices, send sweet notes to our grandmothers, host Valentine parties in school classrooms, and watch movies like The Princess Bride. Growing up, I knew that you "can't buy love." Sadly, I've met hundreds of girls who have been lured by men who pretended to love them and then sold them for sex. One of these girls is named Valerie. Actually, Valerie isn't her real name. I don't know her real name because I've never met her. It's the name tattooed on her back, so I call her Valerie...
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DALLAS — Kimberly-Clark set an all-time record high in net sales during its third quarter.
For the period ended Sept. 30, K-C said third-quarter net sales rose 8% to $5.4 billion. Diluted net income per share decreased, however, from $1.14 in third quarter 2010 to $1.09.
Third-quarter sales of K-C's personal care segment rose 9% to $2.4 billion. For the North America market, sales dropped 1%. The company said overall sales volumes were even with the year-ago period, but noted growth in adult care, baby wipes and feminine care, thanks to growth from the introduction of Poise hourglass shape pads, as well as continued momentum of U by Kotex. Infant care volumes fell low-single digits and child care volumes fell at a double-digit rate, despite the introduction of Huggies Little Movers slip-on diapers.
K-C's consumer tissue segment increased 4% to $1.7 billion, while North American sales dropped by 1%, due to lower sales in bathroom and facial tissues. By product category, bathroom tissue volumes fell double-digits and Kleenex facial tissue volumes were off high single-digits. Paper towel volumes, however, rose at a double-digit rate and benefited from improved distribution levels and promotion activity, K-C said.
"While we are not on track with all of our goals this year, I'm encouraged that execution of our Global Business Plan strategies enabled us to deliver 4% growth in organic sales and double-digit growth in adjusted earnings per share in the third quarter," K-C chairman and CEO Thomas Falk said. "Our focus on targeted growth initiatives, revenue realization and cost reduction allowed us to overcome significant input cost inflation and softer-than-expected demand in portions of the developed markets. Our market positions remain solid overall and our innovation and marketing programs are on track."


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Both New York Magazine's Vulture Blog and Rolling Stone have confirmed awesome rumors that the Glee cast will be doing a cover of [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Rebecca Black[/lastfm]'s 100 million view garnering YouTube travesty/hit "Friday."
What? How? Huh? Which Glee episode is it going to be on and why? Why, Ryan Murphy, why???
According to reports, Glee 's cover version of Rebecca Black's "Friday" will be sung on the Glee prom episode and will feature three of the show's male cast members — Artie (Kevin McHale), Puck (Mark Salling) and Sam (Chord Overstreet).
What do you think the premise will be? Them getting all decked out for the prom? Them riding in the limosine to pick up their dates? Them home alone making fun of themselves by watching YouTube videos?
Regardless, showcasing "Friday" on the show will undoubtedly spike song sales and Black will be making more bank on what some consider the "worst song ever written." Have you heard any of the other Ark songs? Some of them are infinitely worse.
Don't you dare think that the precocious young "musical genius" (as deemed by Simon Cowell and[lastfm link_type="artist_info"] Lady Gaga[/lastfm]) is done. Ms. Black has been in the studio recording more tunes.
Hopefully, she didn't fiddle around with the auto-tuned knob too much.
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Lupita Nyong'o's Best Outfits While Promoting '12 Years'
Acting skills, global education, impeccable taste– Lupita Nyong'o is officially our new girl crush.
The Kenyan actress and filmmaker has be captivating audiences as Patsey in "12 Years of Slave" but she's also been captivating the fashion world by her red carpet picks. For her most recent appearance (above) Nyong'o wore a Prabal Gurung tuxedo dress with Christian Louboutin Batignolles python pumps and a black Charlotte Olympia 'Domino' Pandora clutch.
As a newcomer –she recently graduated with a masters in fine arts from the Yale School of Drama– the 30-year-old has been making smart fashion decisions that best compliment her petite frame. Normally actresses stumble when they initially become famous, but clearly Nyong'o has good taste or a great stylist behind her looks.
See some of her best looks while promoting '12 Years' on the next pages and watch the interview with her for Vogue's "Watch the Backstory", below.


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Jackson starts endowment at Fairfield convention center
FAIRFIELD — Fairfield philanthropist John Jackson has donated money to the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center to start an endowment.
Jackson donated $104,000 to provide the initial investment in what convention center employees hope is an endowment that will grow to $1 million or more.
"The Convention Center is great for Fairfield and the surrounding communities," Jackson said. "It's great for everybody and they have great programs. I wish I was younger so I could go and experience them, but it is great for Fairfield."
Convention center executive director Rustin Lippincott said the center has received donations from many people, but this one is special.
"What makes this unique is that it gets our endowment off the grounds, which is something we've talked about for five years," he said. "Finally, thanks to John Jackson, we're able to create one."
Lippincott said the endowment will help the convention center make an even greater impact on the community.
Fairfield resident Dave Neff has known Jackson for 40 years. This spring, Neff approached Jackson about an endowment for the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center.
"Many times you have to till the field, plant the seed, and when the time comes, let it germinate," he said. "The time was right this last spring."
A few weeks after their initial meeting, Jackson called Neff to talk about the endowment. Neff and Cindy Woodbury, then development director at the convention center, told Jackson his donation would be the endowment's seed money that would grow in time. Neff said it was an easy sales pitch for him and Woodbury, since Jackson was more than willing to donate the money.
Jackson, who turned 99 years old this week, gets around in a wheelchair but still drives a car and lives independently.
"He jokes with you and his mind is crystal clear," Neff said.
Jackson has lived his entire life in southeast Iowa. He graduated from Washington High School and Parsons College.
Jackson has been musically inclined throughout his life. He was a charter member of the Washington Municipal Band in 1932. Jackson donated $175,000 to help build a new bandstand in Washington. The new bandstand was completed in 2010. That year, the Washington Municipal Band honored Jackson by playing his favorite song, "Lassus Trombone."
Jackson has lived in Fairfield most of his life, where he is also widely known for his business and his participation in bands. While serving as a sergeant in the Army and the National Guard, Jackson led the marching band "Rhythm Majors" as its drum major. He also participated in the dance band and played saxophone in the concert band.
The Iowa National Guard's 34th Army Band counted on Jackson for years to entertain audiences. Jackson was in the band during World War II in Italy. When former bandmate Donald Samuelson compiled a history of the 95-year-old band, Jackson was among those he interviewed.
Jackson was also good friends with Ron Prill, a fellow member of the 34th Army Band and the man after whom the Fairfield bandstand was named this summer. Prill died Sept. 9 at age 81.
Jackson is also the son of a famous athlete. His father, John E. Jackson, was the first Iowan to win an Olympic gold medal. His father won the prize in the military rifle competition at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden.
Despite his tremendous success as a sharpshooter, John E. Jackson all but gave up the sport after the Wimbledon Cup, held shortly after the Olympics. His son John C. Jackson said he rarely saw his father fire his rifle, except when a visitor asked him for a demonstration. He said his father did not spend much time teaching him or his brother to shoot. In fact, John C. said he never once fired his father's rifle that was once on display in the Washington Public Library.


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AOL's Treasure Hunt for Spammer's "Nazi" Gold
AOL is prospecting for gold. Literally. CNET reports that AOL won a $12.8 million verdict against three men one of whom is Davis Wolfgang Hawke, an alleged neo-Nazi and spammer sending ads pushing penile implants and diet pills. The judge in the case "granted a motion giving AOL the right to any property that Hawke left with his parents or his grandparents." So AOL is planning on using sonar and radar to search Mr. Hawke's parents' property. His parents, Hyman and Peggy Greenbaum, (according the article Mr. Hawke changed his name from Andrew Britt Greenbaum to cover his Jewish heritage) are not pleased and think their son is not a spammer and that "their son would [not] be 'stupid' enough to bury gold bars on their property."
Curiously, CNET reports that Mrs. Greenbaum believes gold bars do exist, just not on her property. She also thinks her son is hiding in Belize.
With all the oddity on the defendant's side, AOL's spokesperson may be the winner in the understatement category as he noted "This particular defendant may have a colorful and outrageous history–there are some conditions that might make this case unique" but asserted that AOL always goes after assets and property and cited past examples such as AOL's taking a Porsche, a Hummer, and gold coins.
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Miley Cyrus puts mouth around giant inflatable penis at secret G-A-Y show in London
London: Miley Cyrus put her mouth around a giant inflatable penis before saddling it at a secret G-A-Y show in London recently.
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The singer, dressed in a spangly bottom-hungry sequin leotard, was snapped attempting to put the blow-up in her mouth.
During her performance, the 'Wrecking Ball' singer asserted that everyone was a little gay, the Mirror reported.
The 21-year-old singer said that some people were just a little bit more gay than others.
Cyrus made the claim while paying tribute to a 23-year-old friend, who was celebrating his birthday at the iconic London night spot.


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The Humane Society of Northeast Florida, a no-kill shelter, is holding a 'Paws for a Cause' auction, selling hundreds of items. The biggest fund-raiser of the year for the group will begin at 5 p.m. and lasts into the night Nov. 11 at the Riverfront Inn in Palatka.
Items up for bid include lunch with Colomba Bush, wife of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, at the Governor's Mansion, a trip to Washington D.C. to dine with U.S. Rep. John Mica, cars, a seven-night Holland American Cruise, a trip to New York City, football tickets to sold-out games, a full tailgate party by chef Matt Sinow, cars, a piano, sculptures, golf packages, Harley Davidson items, a number of two-night getaways to Orlando, St. Augustine getaways, river cruises, bicycles, tools, restaurant gift certificates and more.
Entrance to the auction is free. Everyone who registers has a chance to win a $25,000 boat, outboard and tailgate. There will be raffles and a 50/50 drawing.
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I watched sunrise over Athens, and saw duskfall at Sintra.
Traveled almost whole Greece (Peloponnese) in a week.
The monasteries in Meteora.
Sailing up the Nile when I was 10, seeing the pyramids and Egyptian tombs and all that mysticism.
Going to Wacken Open Air 3 times, the first time was on a bus (around 2 and a half crazy days).
Teach, Learn, Share
Teach: Portuguese or perhaps English and Spanish
Learn: German, and other languages
Share: Recipes, experiences, languages
Countries I've Visited
Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Monaco, Morocco, Poland, Spain, Turkey, United States
Countries I've Lived In
Germany, Greece, Sweden


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DineEquity, Inc. (NYSE: DIN), parent company of Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar® and IHOP® Restaurants, today announced the opening of the first IHOP restaurant in Bahrain on March 17, 2014. The restaurant, located in Bahrain City Centre, represents the sixth restaurant opening for the iconic IHOP brand in the region since 2012 under the multi-franchise agreement with M.H. Alshaya Co. ("Alshaya"), a leading international franchise operator. This agreement allows for the development of 40 restaurants across the Middle East and North Africa region. Locations have already been open and operating successfully in Dubai, Kuwait and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with future locations expected to include Lebanon, Qatar, Oman and Egypt.
The new restaurant features IHOP Restaurants' world famous menu of pancakes, waffles, omelets and breakfast favorites, as well as a full complement of delicious lunch and dinner items. It will be open Saturday through Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. and on Thursday and Friday from 8 a.m. to midnight.
"It has been very exciting to see our brand continue to build and expand its presence in the Middle East and to be able to bring our famous great service and food to a steadily growing list of countries in the region," said Julia Stewart, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DineEquity Inc., and Interim President, International House of Pancakes, LLC. "We have been extremely gratified by the response our restaurants have been receiving in this market. Alshaya has been instrumental in that success, bringing their unparalleled expertise and high standards of excellence to every IHOP location they open."
Mohammed Alshaya, Executive Chairman, M.H. Alshaya Co., commented: "The opening of this new IHOP location in Bahrain demonstrates our commitment to introducing internationally-recognized brands to customers in additional markets across the Middle East. It has been gratifying to see how warmly guests throughout the region have taken to the unique offerings IHOP restaurants provide and we look forward to providing guests in new locations throughout the Middle East region with the opportunity to enjoy the IHOP experience."
"IHOP restaurants are famous for their unique, delicious offerings that have delighted guests for over 55 years—so it is only fitting that guests the world over have the opportunity to enjoy that experience in their own countries and neighborhoods," said Daniel Del Olmo, President, International, DineEquity, Inc. "Alshaya has done a tremendous job in making this reality in this key growth region, and we could not be happier with the tremendous job they have done in maintaining a level of excellence in every restaurant they have opened while continuing to expand. We look forward to welcoming more locations under our agreement with Alshaya."
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Taste 99 tees off as the new restaurant at Carlyle on the Green, with a ... More »
Taste 99 tees off as the new restaurant at Carlyle on the Green, with a view of the celebrated Bethpage Black Golf Course.
Steve Carl's latest establishment in Bethpage State Park transforms the former Oak Room with a New American menu that highlights steak and a series of "small plates" that range from Thai duck wings and Beijing duck wraps to calamari three ways (Buffalo-style, marinara, sweet sesame) and a southwestern quesadilla with chicken and black bean-corn salsa.
Executive chef Phil Abshire also sends out grilled pizzas, mussel pots, salads, and burgers , supplementing filet mignon au poivre, marinated skirt steak, braised short ribs and a steak sandwich.
Dinner is Wednesday to Sunday from 5 p.m. Taste 99 is open for breakfast and lunch every day, starting service at 5:30 a.m. Lunch begins at 11:30 a.m., with a more casual menu, primarily salads, wraps and burgers.
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Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) candidate Usman Bhatti on Thursday won the PP-194 by-election in Multan by just over 300 votes.
According to unofficial results, Usman Bhatti secured 20,416 votes. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate Moinuddin Riaz Qureshi came second with 20,097 votes.
Voter turnout remained around 22 per cent.
The result is an upset of sorts given that the constituency had traditionally voted for Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidates.
When unofficial count was finally announced, celebrations began at the residences of Usman Bhatti and Amir Dogar, the secretary general for PPP South Punjab.
Speaking to The Express Tribune, Bhatti said, "My victory is a humble tribute to our leader Yousuf Raza Gillani."
He also called it sweet revenge and democracy's victory. He said the voters clearly appreciated his loyalty to the PPP. He said his opponent had fluanted his wealth during the election campaign but failed to impress the electorate.
He said, "This victory is the first proverbial drop of the establishment of the Seraiki province."
Congratulating the winning candidate, Prime Minister Gilani said his success reflected the confidence the people had in the PPP. He said he hoped that the newly elected MPA would remain committed to democracy and serve his constituency.
The seat had been vacant after PML-N member Shahid Mahmood Khan resigned and joined the Pakistan Tekreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in support of Makhdoom Javed Hashmi.
PML-N media coordinator Mohammad Mehdi said that party will examine the causes for loss.
A central PML-N leader speaking anonymously, blamed the loss of poor candidate selection. He said that Qureshi had been awarded the party ticket on the recommendation of a senior bureaucrat against better advice by party workers. He said Qureshi had joined the party only recently after leaving the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q).
Bhatti was elected deputy mayor of Multan during the last local bodies elections.
Polling remained peaceful with no violence or irregularities. It also featured the use of electronic voting machines for the first time. These were used at women's polling stations in the Degree College, Kutechery and Workers Welfare School on experimental basis.
The total number of votes registered in PP-194 is 188,472 (102,416 male and 86,056 female). The Election Commission of Pakistan had set up 134 polling stations (69 for male voters and 65 for female voters). A total of eight independent candidates also contested the by-election.
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Burton sign McFadzean from MK Dons
Burton Albion have signed defender Kyle McFadzean from MK Dons for a club-record fee on a three-year contract.
The Championship club have not disclosed the amount but have confirmed it is more than the £20,000 paid for midfielder Russell Penn in 2009.
MK Dons boss Karl Robinson had said that their asking price for McFadzean, 29, was £500,000.
"We watched him extensively and think he was the best centre-half in League One," said Burton boss Nigel Clough.
"He's a good age and has matured as a player. He's probably at his peak and has hardly missed a game for the last two years."
McFadzean scored four goals in 93 appearances during two years with MK Dons, who were relegated from the second tier last season.
"I think he'll be better this time making the step up, thanks to his previous experience in the Championship," added Clough.
"We think he will be a help for us in the Championship. He leads by example on the pitch."
Dons boss Robinson said: "I'm deeply disappointed to lose Kyle. We had meetings with him in the summer.
"He knows what our ambitions are for next season and going forward, but he's decided his future lies elsewhere.
"It's been a testing time but we've been strong and stuck to our principles, showing respect to our players and our fans. This deal is in the best interest of the football club."
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Organization Description
DAI is an international development company. For 40 years, we have worked on the frontlines of international development, tackling fundamental social and economic development problems caused by inefficient markets, ineffective governance, and instability. Currently, DAI is delivering results that matter in some 80 countries. Our development solutions turn ideas into impact by bringing together fresh combinations of expertise and innovation across multiple disciplines. Our clients include international development agencies, international lending institutions, private corporations and philanthropies, and national governments.
Location - 7600 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 200, Bethesda, MD
Job Description
This position supports the Asia Delivery sector to coordinate financial, logistical and operational functions for the Asia Sector. The incumbent provides administrative support to one or more projects.
Job Responsibilities
Sector Coordination
Under the guidance of Regional Sector Managing Director (RMD) and Regional Finance and Operational Manager (RFOM) provides general operational and logistical support to the Asia Sector on sector and project related logistical and administrative tasks, including new business opportunities. Provides short-term coverage for traveling Associates. Any other tasks as requested by management.
Contract Management
Submits requisitions for requesting purchases for goods and services and drafts routine contractual documents using approved templates. Assists project with project recruitment and mobilization for Long Term (LTTA) and Short Term Technical Assistant (STTA) positions and coordinates the processing of payments. Drafts routine contractual documents using approved templates.
Financial Management
Responsible for processing sector and project financial transactions, including:
Auditing sector and project iExpense reports.
Processing Independent Consultant invoices and supplier/vendor invoices for review or approval per the Schedule of Authorities.
Assisting with outstanding invoices and closed project finances.
Project Management
Provides backstopping support to projects in an Assistant capacity and helps with day to day project operations. Under the guidance of the RFOM, assist with ad hoc tasks as requested by from Project Delivery Teams for projects on a surge capacity.
Additional responsibilities as deemed necessary.
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Minimum Qualifications
Grade 4: Minimum one year relevant administrative or technical professional experience and a BS/BA degree.
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Understanding of/interest in the international development field
Equivalent combination of experience and education will be considered.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in international development
Experience with project management
Business development experience
Proficiency in a second language
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Deadline - Open until filled.
DAI is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer with a commitment to diversity. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. EOE - Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans


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We are long overdue to update you with what's trending over on LXBN. As the year comes to a close, we have plenty of subjects lawyers across the Network are offering up commentary on with three in the title you might have expected, and a good (but ridiculous) employment law story coming out of Iowa.
- It happens every year: blogs across the LexBlog Network put together their 2012 in Review posts as they highlight the biggest stories and most impactful trends we saw in the law in 2012. In just glancing at the posts to appear in that section recently, we have a plethora of subjects covered: trade secrets and noncompetes, immigration, class actions, D&O law, condo law, DWI defense and a lot more.
- And as some posts and blogs look back at 2012, others look ahead to 2013, with posts there curated onto our 2013 & The Law section. Some subjects covered so far on that page: insurance cases to watch, new employment laws in California, commercial real estate predictions, the IP year ahead, China business law trends and privacy issues to watch. Like with the look back at 2012, there's much more than just that list in 2013.
- And what would this post be if it didn't include the biggest story—legal or not—of the week? That, of course, is the Fiscal Cliff. Have to say, I'm pretty blown away at the response on the LexBlog Network thus far. Also, it isn't just the response either as our Network of lawyers have been on this story for months; the section now contains just short of fifty posts.
- The Nelson v. Knight section, at five posts, isn't nearly as deep as the ones mentioned above—but the story and case behind it are too funny not to include. See, the Iowa Supreme Court recently decided that an employer—in this case, dentist Dr. James Knight of Iowa City—can fire an employee for being too attractive, and nothing else. Knight's wife was worried about the potential for an inappropriate relationship between dental assistant Ms. Knight, an employee of Nelson's for a decade, and her husband, so she complained and her husband fired Nelson. Again, the Iowa Supreme Court said this was fine. I'll let our lawyers explain the details.


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Bruins prospect Malcolm Subban admits to rooting for Canadiens in playoffs
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After Brad Marchand publicly declared his hate for Tomas Plekanec, one player within the Boston Bruins organization was rooting for the Montreal Canadiens during the rivals' playoff showdown this past spring.
You know what they say: Bros before Corsis.
Malcolm, the younger Subban, was drafted by Boston back in 2012, but has yet to appear in a game at the NHL level. We're certain his tune will change if and when he's in net for the Bruins for a future playoff game against the Canadiens.


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The US Air Force (USAF) is offering a $10,000 reward for information about the theft of £181,000 of military equipment at RAF Lakenheath.
The items stolen from the base include advanced combat helmets, modular sleep systems, extreme cold weather boots and interceptor body armour.
The items were stolen from building 1068 on the base between 2011 and 2012.
The USAF Office of Special Investigations is offering $10,000 for information leading to the identification, arrest and successful conviction of those responsible.
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I was only joking!I actually really liked your story and cant wait for more!!Thanks!!
Author's Response: Well thanks for your review, and don't do that again!!! lol. I think it's time for a little break over this story. Hope you enjoy what comes up after the intermission. -Kate Mari
Oh and I was also wondering whos Ron and Hermione!???And this Harry guy whats his story like?!!
Author's Response: Hi, do you know that you are on a Harry Potter website? Reading Harry Potter fan fictions? I'm wondering why you would leave me a message like this . . . lol. -Kate Mari
Hi!!Just stumbled across your story there and was wondering what inspired you to write such a story??!!!
well not bad so i think u should do some more i think u should really put in a major kissing.
Author's Response: Lol, some major snogging, huh?! Well, I'll think about it, but right now it's kind of oblivious to Hermione that she likes Ron. But, there might be some in the end! Keep reading to find out. Thanks for your review! -Kate Mari
Brill story! When's the next update???
Author's Response: Thanks! Well, as you have probably noticed, the mods are trying to get things back to normal and have an abnormally large amount of stories to review. So, my next chapter has been in queue for more than a week; that's probably meaning they still haven't made it into the Romance Section yet. Please don't give the mods a tough time and keep reading and reviewing. Plus, if any of you would like to help Beta my next few chapters, I would greatly enjoy it and you can just leave a review telling me so. Thanks for the review and keep them coming! -Kate Mari
I'm enjoying the story. I'm a little confused as to the time frames though and I'm not sure I get what happened between Hermione and Ron and what it has to do with his row w/Harry, maybe we aren't supposed to yet? I am especially enjoying the Harry/Ginny dynamic, they have a fun relationship. Looking forward to update!
Totally need to read your next chapter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've read a lot of stories but I've got to say yours is one of the best. Can"t wait for the next chapter!!! Must read ASAP!!! :)
Author's Response: Thank you! The next chapter is still in queue after over a week. Cross your fingers and hope for the best! : ) -Kate Mari
im a ron and hermione shipper now and b 4 u say anything i was 1 b 4 the hbp
Author's Response: Sweet! Just another person stuck in the large boat of Ron/Hermione fans. Nice to have you! -Kate Mari
This is so cute, Im looking forward to the next chapter!
Author's Response: Thanks! The fourth chapter should be up very soon because it has been in queue about a week. Please review again! -Kate Mari
when are you updating?! Very good story by the way!
Author's Response: Thanks, sixteenth_encore, for checking up on everything! Anyways, my next chapter is still in queue. It has been there for over a week so hopefully it will be up very soon. Thanks for all the wonderful reviews! -Kate Mari
LOVE IT!! lol- i love the whole Harry/Ginny suspicions.......lol well, update soon- adding this one to my favorites *Adds, and rates a 10/10* ~A fellow Harry Potter fanatic, AKA, Linda
Author's Response: Kate Mari is at camp until 8/12, so she asked me, sixteenth_encore, to check out her reviews and to let her readers know that Chapter Four is in queue, and chapter five is on its way! In the meantime, y'all can read my fic, Childhood Lost. LOL. Kate Mari's fic should be up real soon.
I like your story I read a lot of these fanfics and your actually sounds believeable. I can't wait for the ending!
Cool story! I like the developments so far : )
Cool story! I like the developments so far : )
I'm really into the story! I'm a little unclear as to time frames, though. In ch.2 you indicate that everyone is going to Hogsmeade so I'm thinking it's a weekend. But then Hermione runs from Ron saying they're late for class. Is that just her flustered response? Then in this chapter Ginny & Hermione are in Hogsmeade (is it the same day?) but in class soon after. I'm just a bit confused as to how much time is passing, etc. Otherwise, I love it! Keep the chapters coming!
Author's Response: Hey! Thanks for your response! As for the 'unclear time frames', you pretty much hit them on the ball. Hermione is just flustered (although, she's usually not), and when Ginny and Hermione are in Hogsmeade it is the same day. Classes start later. I'll try and help you stay a little more aware of the time from now on. The next chapter is in queue! -Kate Mari
Ha! The last line of chapter 3 made me laugh out loud. Very funny and very cute. However, some of the dialogue is a little Americanized. And some of the transitions are a little rocky. But I think it's very good anyway, so keep it up!
Author's Response: I'm an American, what can I say?! lol. I'll try and do a little better on dialogue. However, thank you for the review, I very much appreciate you critique! -Kate Mari
The details in the first few parts were very well written. Great job, keep it up. I really luv this story so far.
Author's Response: Thanks! -Kate Mari
this story was really cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!even though im a H/HR person
Author's Response: Thanks for your response! I'm really psyched that you liked my fic even though you ship differently. I hope you read the rest of my fic! -Kate Mari
I loved it!!!!!! i cannot wait for the next chapter!!!!
Author's Response: Thanks! The next chapter is in queue! -Kate Mari


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District Advisory Councils begin to meet
Education, Early Learning and Culture
Excellence in education hinges on meaningful input from all partners, and District Advisory Councils will give students, parents and guardians and school council members a stronger voice in their education system, said Minister Currie. Through our eight District Advisory Councils, members will identify education priorities within their own district and provide advice to government on important education issues.
The District Advisory Councils will begin meeting next week. These councils will enable conversations between students and parents within eight councils that are based on the existing families of schools.
District Advisory Councils are made up of:
· A member of each school council/home and school association in the family of schools
· Two students from high schools within the family of schools
· A regional director of the PEI Home and School Federation for the family of schools
Pat Campbell has been organizing District Advisory Council meetings and will act as a facilitator and liaison with the Department of Education, Early Learning and Culture. Through a collaborative approach, we can form successful partnerships with parents and students to improve learning, said Ms. Campbell. Research shows that parent involvement in schools significantly increases student performance and achievement.
The District Advisory Councils will consider local issues as well as topics that the Department of Education, Early Learning and Culture is seeking advice on, including:
· Length / time of school day
· Rezoning
· Learner supports
· Technology in learning
· Experiential learning opportunities
· Student transitions from primary to secondary levels
For more than 60 years home and schools have brought together communities to focus on the total well-being of youth , said Home and School Federation president Peter Rukavina. The Family of Schools District Advisory Councils provide an additional venue for these discussions to take place.
Government is committed to drawing on the expertise of Islanders to help shape public policy that will truly support Island learners. To do this, Prince Edward Island is leading a new model of collaboration and shared leadership in learning. The Learning Partners Advisory Council will advance a learner-centred culture of educational excellence from birth, through post-secondary and the workforce. The District Advisory Councils will provide a stronger voice for students and parents in shaping public policy in K-12 education. The Principals Council will enable focused conversations on learning perspectives and learner needs from the perspective of school principals.
For more information on District Advisory Councils, members and upcoming meetings, visit: www.gov.pe.ca/eecd/DAC.


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Henry Adams's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography tells not only his own life story, as seen through the lens of his lifelong quest for education, but the story of the development of the American mind throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. John McDonough fits his delivery to the steady cadence and stately parallelisms of Adams's prose and incorporates Adams's occasional snippet of Latin, German, or French with smooth ease. Adams's narrative is told from a great emotional and chronological distance; McDonough captures that wonderfully, letting the story unroll from his lips one measured word at a time. Indeed, the production's only weakness is that his leisurely delivery makes a long book seem even longer at times.
This autobiography was immediately hailed as a masterpiece upon publication and has even been called the greatest nonfiction book ever written. Henry Adams, whose great-grandfather and grandfather were both U.S. presidents, fills his story with one unforgettably brilliant observation after another. Filled with uncommon wisdom, this book also serves as a thoughtful history of 19th-century America.
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Enchantment Theatre Company is a professional non-profit theater company with a reputation for excellence in both theater and arts education. For more than 30 years, Enchantment has been guided by our mission: to create original theater for young audiences and families that inspires, challenges and enriches our audience, onstage and in the classroom. All of Enchantment's productions are original adaptations of new and classic fables, myths and legends, set to classical or original music. Our unique style of performance - incorporating expressive masks, life-size puppets, magical illusion, music, dance and pantomime - is accessible to all children, regardless of language barriers and encourages at-risk youth, whose theatrical participation is among the lowest, to learn and grow through the performing arts.
Enchantment established its arts education programs soon after the Company became a non-profit theater in 2000. Since then, we have provided imaginative professional theater performances and in-school arts residencies for over 150,000 local students through long-term partnerships with the Philadelphia Archdiocese, the School District of Philadelphia and PA School for the Deaf. In addition to its arts education work, Enchantment performs a regional holiday production for families and takes one of its major works on the road each year to 30-40 states, annually reaching on average 100,000 children, totaling more than 1 million since 2000. We also have provided a unique in-front-of-the-orchestra theatrical experience for young people with more than 65 symphony orchestras nationwide and in Canada, including the Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras. We have been the recipient of major grants from many national and local organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pew Charitable Trust, the Philadelphia Foundation, the Wyncote Foundation, The Independence Foundation, The Victory Foundation, the Connelly Foundation and the Virginia and Harvey Kimmel Arts Education Fund. We retain the founders' original philosophy that "experiencing live theater is essential for all children to thrive."


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40 Minute highlights package of Liverpool's comfortable victory over Wigan with 2 goals from Dirk Kuyt.
21st Apr 2007
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After talking smack about each other onstage (and clashing via social media), the Rob Zombie/Marilyn Manson tour seems to be back on track. The tour hit Camden's Susquehanna Bank Center Friday night (October 19) and rocked without any unplanned incidents.
DJ Starscream, alias Sid Wilson of Slipknot, opened the show with a pummeling DJ set that combined elements of EDM and metal. While some of the more metal-leaning members of the audience didn't seem to be with the whole DJ thing, lots of fans were rocking throughout his entire set.
But all eyes were on Marilyn Manson when he and his band hit the stage. Anyone hoping for controversy would be disappointed, though, as Manson did his usual performance with in-between song banter like, "Has anyone in this room made sex with me?" And responding to the cheers, "You shouldn't be proud of that!" His fourteen song set included songs from his new album Born Villain "Hey Cruel World…" and "Slo-Mo-Tion," as well as earlier classics like "Beautiful People" (the song which got cut out of his set the night he clashed with his co-headliner), "Antichrist Superstar," "mOBSCENE" and "I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)" (which featured a bit of The Beatles' "Happiness Is A Warm Gun"), along with his well known covers, The Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams" and Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus." After leaving the stage, he played the recorded version of his take on Carly Simon's "You're So Vain."
Alice Cooper once described Rob Zombie as "a tattoo that came to life" and his show reflects that sense of horror movie schtick, with skeletons, robots and huge video screens showing scary movie scenes throughout his show. His set included songs from his latest, Hellbilly Deluxe 2 including "Jesus Frankenstein," "Sick Bubblegum" and "Mars Needs Women," as well as his earlier hits ("Dragula," "Living Dead Girl") a few White Zombie tunes as well ("More Human Than Human," "Thunder Kiss '65″). His main set closed with a cover of Alice Cooper's "School's Out," which would have been a great opportunity for Manson to come on stage, if the duo had really made up. Alas, Zombie kept the conflict safely between the "mother***ers on the right and the mother***ers on the left" of the arena. So, tentative as the Zombie/Manson truce may be, it looks like the tour will keep it together for the next few weeks (if it ended, what would they do with all of their "Twins Of Evil" t-shirts?).
– Brian Ives, CBS Local