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Vatsalyagram: An Indic Embodiment of Social Work
When Baba Ramdev had launched his valiant struggle in Delhi against the large-scale loot and venality of ruling dispensation in Delhi, a fragile lady entered the stage and quietly expressed her solidarity. This unremarkable event could have gone unnoticed if not for a Delhi based electronic media wheeler-dealer, known for his daily dose of saint sanctimonious meets professor pontificate act in twitter, manufactured an outrage over her presence. Revernetially called Didi Maa by her followers, Sadhvi Rithambara had played major role in Dhamric resurgence during the heydays of Mandir movement before she decided to bid adieu to mass movement and completely focus her energies on a remarkable initiative Vatsalya gram at Param Shakti Peeth. "How can anybody be anath (orphan) in this land of Raghunath and Vishwanath?" quipped Sadhvi Rithambara when asked why she dedicated herself to this mission.
Those who imagine it as a mere orphanage, even if admittedly better managed than most others, are still missing the woods for the trees. To call 'Vatsalyagram' an orphanage would be trivialising its true import. Vatsalyagram at Brindavan conceived by Sadhvi Ritambara under the auspices of her Param Shakti Peeth is an extraordinary attempt to bring abandoned infants and destitute women back into the fold of 'family' – an institution fundamental to the conception of society but denied to these wretched souls by the quirk of cruel fate.
The cradle at Vatsalyagram, put up at the entrance, in its history of 12 years has never been shut on the orphans for the paucity of resources or fervour. It has a bell attached to it which rings as soon as a new child is received in the cradle. A 'Janmotsav', is held to celebrate the addition of the new member into the family. Afterwards the child undergoes all rituals from tonsuring ceremony to sacred thread ceremony amongst the various 'samskars' that a child normally has in a traditional Hindu household.
Every child becomes a member of a primary family unit comprising roughly of 5 daughters, 2 sons, at least 1 maternal aunt, a grandmother and a mother. The aunts (Mausi), grandmothers (Nani) and mothers (Yashoda Maa) besides a few Sadhvis are in the main drawn from either destitute women themselves who have found shelter here or women who have sacrificed their cosy lives to volunteer at Vatsalyagram. This primary unit complete with fimilial bonds is but a part of the extended Vatsalya Parivar. For an institution devoted to orphans, the concept of Yashoda Maa is indeed thoughtful. In our society Yashoda's maternal love for Krishna, who is her dopted son, is much more venerable and abiding than that of Devaki who actually gave birth to him.
Samvid Gurukul, an International school affiliated to Central Board of Secondary Education inside the precincts of Vatsalyagram, is a modern school with fully equipped labs, library, indoor and outdoor sports centre catering to the educational needs of around 250 children at Vatsalyagram. Besides a 100 other children are availing the state of the art facilities at the school. Sadhvi Ritambara or 'Didi Maa' as she is fondly referred to by the Ashram inmates and people in Mathura and Brindavan, is particularly keen that children at Vatsalyagram receive the best of modern education. Shri Gopal Patwa, karyawah at Vatsalyagram proudly tells about the Ashram children receiving higher education in various Engineering and technical Colleges. A feather in Vatsalyagram's cap has been the commissioning of two of its children as officers in Armed Forces.
A unique feature of Vatsalyagram is its complete proscription of adoptions from here. Shri Gopal Patwa explains the rationale, "As the children here are all part of a family, how does one expect their relations to part away with them". That is how seriously the concept of family is taken here. From concern for their careers to fixing suitable marriage alliances, the involvement of the Ashram management and Didi Maa permeates all aspects of the children's lives.
Project Vatsalyagram isn't limited to an orphanage and a good school. A 24 bed hospital with 2 operation theatres, a diagnostic centre, an X-ray centre, a dental clinic and separate Paediatrics and Gynaecology wards, under its Vatsalya Aarogya Abhiyan, helps not just the residents of Ashram but also the lay outsiders. Eye clinic at Vatsalyagram periodically conducts free checkups and surgeries for various eye ailments. Vatsalya Aarogya Abhiyan also incorporates healing and general well being through naturopathy and promotion of Yoga and Ayurveda. Under its Vatsalya Gau Abhiyan, a cow shelter with cattle strength of some 125 cows, besides bulls and calf are being maintained.
This Sadhvi at Brindavan has no Malcolm Muggeridge to profile her; she has no BBC type big media connections. She is working silently and tirelessly without boasting to be a "saint of the gutters". And media merchants of Delhi who think nothing of funding evangelical agencies considered diabolical even by US state agencies will contine to spew venom. But then sincere selfless service isn't incumbent on approbation. Param Shakti Peeth is soon going to replicate the Brindavan story in Chattarpur (M.P.), Omkareshwar (M.P.), Solan (Himachal Pradesh) and Dakorjee (Gujarat). Vatsalyagram projects in the first three places have already made considerable headway. Efforts are afoot to identify land in Karnataka also. Didi Maa's vatsalya (motherly love) is all set to touch many more lives than the 300 children and women it houses at its Brindavan ashram and why shouldn't it?
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what is Ian doing with the ducks that is pissing people off? How can I have the feeds and miss this stuff?
They think that Ian is doing anything he can to get airtime on tv. Willie says that in a perfect world, Ian is gone next. They really don't like him.
Brit didn't think that shirt she's wearing out...it says Razorbacks LIKE IT HOT but when she was standing there at an angle, it read LIK A HO...:teeth
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Halilhodzic not satisfied with Japan rout of Cambodia
Japan national team coach Vahid Halilhodzic was more satisfied with the result than his team's performance after their 3-0 win over Cambodia on Thursday night in joint qualifying for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and AFC Asian Cup 2019.
While goals from outside the penalty area by Keisuke Honda and Maya Yoshida satisfying their French-speaking coach's demand for more long-range shooting, the official match records' tally of 34 shots for the Samurai Blue betrayed profligacy in front of the Cambodian goal.
"I want to congratulate my players for winning and thanks the fans for creating a great atmosphere," Halilhodzic said after the match. "But I believe we could have scored even more goals.
"I lost count of how many times we wasted opportunities trying to centre the ball in the penalty area."
Japan, who are tied for second place in Group E, will look to remain unbeaten when they travel to Tehran next week to face Afghanistan at the Azadi Stadium.
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What's the over/under on times John Madden forgets it's 2009 and calls Arizona the "St. Louis Cardinals" during the Super Bowl telecast? 1.5.
Welcome to the First Annual Prop Bets Spectacular!
Let's face it: For most of you, once Urban Meyer hoisted the crystal in Miami, the football season effectively ended. Left without a rooting interest in the Super Bowl, prop bets are your last chance to enjoy the last meaningful game before August.
For those of you unfamiliar with prop bets, they are simple. A prop is basically any wager that goes above and beyond the traditional point spread and over/under on the total points scored.
Some of the most famous prop bets are which player will score the first touchdown and whether the coin flip will be heads or tails. (Tails has hit nine of the last 11 games. Just sayin'.)
Certain offshore establishments will give you an array of props combining the Super Bowl with other sports -- Number of Larry Fitzgerald touchdowns vs. Number of goals scored by Manchester United; Number of fans in Raymond James Stadium vs. Number of people who still care about the NBA, etc.
That's all well and good, but my friends and I have a tradition of making up our own. We throw them on a big board, make everyone throw in some monopoly money (you know, because gambling is illegal and all), and whoever wins the most props, wins the pot. The following will be on our board this year, so please feel free to cut them out and start your own on Sunday:
* Over/Under on "analysts" NBC uses in its pregame show -- 9.5 (Note: Matt Millen does not count.)
* How many minutes into the telecast before Al Michaels lets us know that Arizona coach Ken Whisenhunt used to be the Pittsburgh offensive coordinator?
* Ben Roethlisberger's first pass: Complete, incomplete, or perfect 68-yard bomb down the left sideline dropped by Limas Sweed?
* Number of times Kurt Warner is sacked vs. Number of Kurt Warner touchdown passes
* Number of times we see Kurt Warner's wife vs. Number of times we hear that Kurt Warner used to bag groceries
* First commercial: Budweiser, Bud Light, Pepsi
* First commercial with bikini models: Bud Light, Go Daddy, Victoria's Secret
* How many minutes before Larry Fitzgerald goes Nintendo Turbo Mode, shakes eight defenders, scores a touchdown, pulls the goal post out of the ground and throws it into the Raymond James pirate ship?
* True or False: John Madden will get confused and call Steelers coach Mike Tomlin Omar Epps.
* Whose NFL Europe career is mentioned first: Kurt Warner or James Harrison?
* Over/Under of times Jimmy Fallon makes you laugh during his promo spots -- 0.5
* True or False: Bruce Springsteen will sing Born in the U.S.A. and Thunder Road during halftime.
* True or False: Bruce Springsteen will have a "wardrobe malfunction" during his show.
* Number of first-half points vs. Number of chicken wings your party consumes in the entire game. (Note: If your party gets beat by the points, you probably need to cancel next year's party. Wuss.)
* Number of times Hines Ward's knee injury is mentioned vs. Number of times he's is called "the best blocking receiver in football" PLUS his total catches for the game.
* More field goals: Jeff Reed or Neil Rackers?
* Will either Larry Fitzgerald or Troy Polamalu get brought down by his hair?
* Tie-breaker: Over/Under on total monkeys used in Super Bowl commercials -- 3.5 (Note: Matt Millen DOES count.)
A 1-1 championship week puts me at 53-20 for the season. But it means nothing if I don't get this last one right.
Of course I'm going to pick the Steelers to win. And they should -- they have more talent, more experience and Pittsburgh fans are going to turn Raymond James into a black and gold blizzard.
But don't for a second think this game is a mismatch. Whisenhunt led a much worse Cardinals team to an upset of the Steelers two years ago because he had them prepared for everything Pittsburgh did. And Warner is playing for the Hall of Fame.
So, I think it's going to be close. And the picking-your-favorite-team jinx always scares the heck out me, but I think the Stillers get it done. Steelers 27, Cardinals 20
(Note: I'm taking the over on the monkeys.)
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The Chinese musician has been chosen to receive the Order of the Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his outstanding career achievements.
Torsten Albig, the leader of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, says, "With this honour, we are marking the distinguished services of Lang Lang to German music culture and to the Schleswig-Holstein music festival."
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Aaron Wilburn, one of Southern gospel music's most prolific songwriters and a well-known Christian comedian, is returning to Bethesda Baptist Church, where he first performed in 1975.
Wilburn, who is known for his many appearances with Bill Gaither's Homecoming TV series, will perform at 6 p.m. Sept. 16 at the church, located off Gordon Highway at 5793 Old Augusta Highway between Grovetown and Harlem.
There is no charge, but an offering will be taken.
Wilburn made his mark in Christian music in the 1970s with The Happy Goodman Family, featuring husband and wife Howard and Vestal Goodman.
They recorded a song Wilburn wrote with Eddie Crook, What a Beautiful Day, that became a Southern gospel classic. They also recorded Wilburn's That Sounds Like Home to Me and The Eastern Gate (co-authored with Johnny Cook).
Wilburn estimates he has authored and co-authored more than 1,500 songs, recorded by artists such as Tammy Wynette, The Lewis Family, Lee Greenwood, Jeff & Sheri Easter, The Oak Ridge Boys and many others.
Wilburn and his wife, Rober-ta, co-wrote Four Days Late, recorded by Karen Peck & New River, and he and Eddie Crook co-wrote Just Any Day Now, popularized by the bluegrass group Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver.
It's fitting that The Happy Goodman Family helped Wilburn get established in gospel music.
Growing up poor near Ardmore, Ala., he would go to a neighbor's house to watch the Goodmans' show on TV because his family couldn't afford one.
"We didn't have indoor plumbing until we moved to Huntsville," Wilburn said by phone. "My family was sharecropping farmers. My dad, who died in 1971, ... trapped minks and muskrats and sold their furs. We worked in fields chopping cotton growing up."
Wilburn's family sang together in church, but that was the extent of his knowledge about performing.
"I probably didn't even realize there were professional artists until I was 11 or 12 years old," he said. "My sister and her boyfriend took me when I was 13 to see (country music superstar) Ernest Tubb in Huntsville at Dallas Street Armory."
At 15, Wilburn caught a big break when the Georgia-based gospel group The Sego Brothers & Naomi recorded a song he had written called Modern Age of Progress.
"I found out somehow that they were going to be at a television station in Huntsville, and I gave them a tape of that song," he said.
"They recorded it almost immediately, and when I went with The Happy Goodman Family at 21, Naomi and the Sego Brothers still were singing it."
One of his favorite groups to write for has been The Lewis Family bluegrass-gospel group of Lincolnton, Ga.
"I worked with Little Roy Lewis and Lizzy Long just a month ago, and I co-wrote Dying to Live and She's Loved Him for So Many Years with Jeff and Sheri Easter," he said. Sheri's mother is The Lewis Family's lead vocalist, Polly Lewis Copsey.
"I also wrote God's Little People and I Ain't a Quittin' Now that were recorded by Lewis Phillips (the son of Janis Lewis Phillips)."
Wilburn said he didn't intend to become a Christian humorist. It happened because it was just his nature to produce funny songs and stories, he said.
"I had never really listened to humorists or comedians until after I was doing what I was doing," he said. "People kept saying, 'You've got a warped sense of humor. Have you got any recordings of your stories?' I had never thought about it, but I started making some recordings of them and people started buying them."
Not everything has been funny in Wilburn's life, of course. That was true in May 2010 when he underwent a kidney transplant, with the donor being his sister-in-law.
Wilburn, however, has managed to turn that into one of his stage stories.
He told one interviewer, "I was thrilled to get the kidney from my sister-in-law, but the downside is now, every time I go to the mall, I have to look at purses."


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April 5, 2014 By Andrew M
Ok so I understand how other company's
are getting more length. Much stronger lies
and longer length shafts. There 6 is actually a 5.
How would adding just 1/2 inch of length with no
Lie adjustment effect the shot from each iron?
April 6, 2014 at 9:03pm
Hi Andrew,
For every 1/2 of length added you need to flatten the lie angle 0.5 degrees from what you have now. If you want to strengthen loft, it has no effect on how long the club is.
April 7, 2014 at 4:26pm
Thanks Ryan
April 10, 2014 at 1:59pm
April 6, 2014 at 9:03pm
Hi Andrew,
For every 1/2 of length added you need to flatten the lie angle 0.5 degrees from what you have now. If you want to strengthen loft, it has no effect on how long the club is.
Ryan... When I was fitted for my irons the fitter tested me for lie angle and decided on a 2 degree up adjustment. He also then added 1/2 inch to the shaft length. Based on your answer I am wondering if perhaps the adjustment should only have been 1.5 degrees up. Do you think it would be worth checking when I go to Eagles Nest to get fit for my rescue?
April 14, 2014 at 7:21pm
The best thing to do is once you get them is to go and use the lie board again and tweak as necessary. I just received my custom AP2's and SM5's which were standard lie, and the 6-9 and 46 and 50 bent 1 degree weak. They came and the lies were a bit flat, and the lofts were standard and needed to be bent anyway. A 0.5 degree lie angle change is not really severe, but if you like to choke down on shots a bit upright is the way to go.
Good luck with the hybrid fitting! My new 913HD 20 degree with the White+ 92 shaft is a rocket. almost 240 carry and 250 total. Highly recommended if you are a high ball hitter with lots of spin.
April 15, 2014 at 11:38am
Hi Ryan,Thanks for the post!We are not quite clear from your comment if you felt that the clubs you received were not bent to the spec you requested. If that is the case, in the future, please take them back to the Titleist Authorized Retailer that you purchased them from and we'll happily measure them again to ensure they are dialed in accordingly. As you may know, there are a few variables that come into play when measuring lie angle so it is important to take that into account when measuring/bending the clubs you receive.Great to hear that you are enjoying your Titleist golf clubs. Sounds like your 913 H.d is crushing the ball!Cheers,Mitch DTeam Titleist Canada
April 15, 2014 at 12:41pm
Ryan - Thanks for the tip. I will certainly ask to have them check my lie angle for me for me when I go for my Fairway/Hybrid fitting.
I love hearing your 913HD 20 degree is working so well... Could be a good replacement for my #2 TM Hybrid. We shall see what the fitting process comes out with.
April 16, 2014 at 12:15pm
If I may add some thoughts here. Lie board testing can be very misleading. I always showed deg upright on a lie board. After years of a strond draw and limited ability to fade it, I went searcing for answers.
On Flight scope monitor, when LOWERING my lie angle on all irons back to standard the improvement was unreal. The lie board still said go upright but the monitor said otherwise. After doing that my accuracy and striking improved tremendously.
Please get yourself on a track man or flightscope to get the best total fit. Even after having had a fitting. You wont regret it!
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The ending of Broken Sword 4 was a bit of a letdown and Broken Sword 4 was rather bad in comparison to BS3. Broken Sword 3 was a 3d game and it was a good one.
I do not believe the problem with the 3d generation was 3d itself, the problem was that people thought that "3d" means gameplay. That is, they believed there was a difference in gameplay between a 3d and 2d game so they sought other 3d games, used them as reference and cloned their gameplay, abandoning the sense of the 2d games that came before it. In many cases they ended up with 3rd-person behind-back controls and a complete mess that meant the end of the series and the company because the "3d gameplay" abandoned alot and added little.
Monkey Island 4, Simon the Sorcerer 3, Gabriel Knight 3, Kings Quest 8 etc were all examples of a bad attempt at building a "3d game" that often meant the death of the company. So where the recent Sonic the Hedgehog for example.
Today we see how using polygons doesn't control the gameplay. Games like Bionic Commando Reloaded, Magicka, Diablo 3, Street Fighter IV are all 3d but could as well be 2d.
Considering todays 3d graphics it makes sense to build games in 3d unless you are building cell-animation cartoon-style titles. 3d is just simpler to use, easier to adapt to different resolutions, take upp less harddrive space etc.
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At Sky..
Ahh I see I see..
You mean to say that in the past Yorito was a Yoka like Matsuri, hence why he had that dark cloth while walking to the cave.. and that's why he's so in love with the sky now, because of what he feels for Matsuri.
(I was wondering why we saw no body)
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|2007-05-15, 10:41
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It be its still our world..
But, was it normal for men in Japan to wear capes?!.. or really long cloths, and in summer out of all times.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe there was some anti-cristain movement in Japan, correct.. considering things like the church and so..
I wonder~
Mmm.. reading the translation it doesn't sound so, but if I listen to them.. mhh~
How possible is it for Matsuri's cut-short reply would have been: But he is.. gone.
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The Blood Sacrifice
I should not had seen this episode while the sun was still very high in the sky. I got drowsy at the scenes involving Aono with Matsuri, but not due that they were boring but instead the voice tone for Mai Nakahara and Mamiko Noto in both Aono and Matsuri was so soothing, that my body started to fell into a deep relaxation and lethargy.
Since this would be the halfway episode, I am very glad for Aono to leave the hospital to return back to the house. Thankfully, we will get to see her background fully disclosed for the next couple of episodes ahead.
Exactly what could have happened hundreds of years ago...
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The church represents safety. Holy ground is generally considered a place of sanctuary. Takeshi chasing Matsuri away from that safe place forebodes the eventual meeting of Matsuri and Aono, and facing the unresolved conflict between them.
It also looked pretty cool with those high-intensity lights blazing through stained-glass windows.
Since everyone is sharing their crazy theories, I've got one that'll really twist your mind around...
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|2007-05-15, 23:52
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Honestly, that doesn't really sound all that insane. You've actually got something of a complete picture going there.
@Nobody in particular:
Plot aside for a second though, I'm more interested in the thematic side of things for this episode. Particularly the details on what makes a yaka a yaka. From what I gather they're pretty much humans that have been immersed in dark emotions. Immersed in it so much that it's pretty much integral to their being. Originally, I was assuming the whole "sunlight burns" thing to be typical undead creature cliche, but now, probably not. Whereas the darkness represents negative emotions, the light represents all the positive ones. And they can't exactly just switch sides either, being their stuck in something of an endless cycle where all they can do is fear their prospective loss of happy things and bask in their own loneliness (something this episode got across quite well I think). Thus positive things, like the sky for instance, are portrayed as objects of desire that inevitably cause pain.
Basically, it seems (at least on some level) that the issue can be traced to the mental states of the characters in question. Which brings me to the issue of a potential "cure" for the condition. Rather than some magic remedy, I'm kinda expecting something like a proverbial "pulled out of the darkness". And with Yorito being the center of attention, both in the past and present, he could very well end up being the one doing the pulling. And before anyone bites my head off, yes I'm aware that sounds like typical visual novel staple that some of us aren't so fond of, but I digress. Also some poster's speculation of a possible love triangle would complicate this idea further as, obviously, it's rather difficult to perpetuate a "feel good" situation for all parties when it comes to such things.
Anyways, just my ramblings.
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Oh, and also, Ascaloth was saying that Mayuko might not have the whole sun problem. If my previous speculation is somewhat accurate then that really makes a lot of sense to me. If she's only half-yaka, to the extent that her growth has been halted while not frying in the sun, one could attribute it to her unique situation perhaps. She was obviously fairly young when she was turned, which would indicate a childlike innocence of sorts. She's also not really suffering from that feeling of loneliness that plagues the others, being she's had Takeshi with her all this time. So her affinity with the darkness could be low enough where the sun doesn't effect her.
...or maybe he really did haul her around in that box. ^^;;
|2007-05-16, 03:03
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Good lord you people have some crazy theories! Makes for good reading and fun seeing how close everyone is to the "truth".
10/10? I dunno. I gave last episode a 10, but honestly every episode gets better and I find myself in a rare position of eagerly awaiting every new episode. It's nice to see some new faces around here though, seems interest is starting to pick up.
|2007-05-16, 03:34
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Okay, how about this... Mayuko is actually an android. Aono is Matsuri's daughter. Takeshi is Yorito's father. And Mana is an undercover agent for a government organization trying to learn the secret of yakas. Koyori is her genetically-engineered esper sidekick.
I haven't ranked any of sola a 10 yet. It's early and I haven't been really shocked yet. Hopefully, I'm not over-anticipating, but it seems to me that the real heart of the story is still ahead.
And there's enough technical problems I can nit-pick on that prevent me from calling this "perfect". It's a shame really, because there are just as many details I can point to as being excellent.
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well everyone noe aono can put her blood into those paper animal and make them do their bidding.. maybe she can do the same to yorito? prehap use the dead body and use alot of power to make him into a living doll or sew a dolllike yorito and use alot of blood/power to make him living as well
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Researchers sifted through online information from 432 hospitals across the country and found nearly half marketed robotic surgery for gynecologic conditions such as endometriosis or cervical cancer. A quarter of those hospitals used boilerplate copy from the robot manufacturer Intuitive Surgical, and one in six told consumers that "you owe it to yourself." However, almost none mentioned potential downsides to the technology such as increased operating time or higher cost compared with conventional types of surgery. "Many of the claims that were made by hospitals were not supported by high-quality data," said Dr. Jason Wright, a gynecologic surgeon at Columbia University in New York, who led the new work.


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Exit98Surf: i really do like quiksilver, for it is warm and very flexible. I love the neoprene ,actually, yet the durability isn't quite there. i've had a 2mm short sleeeve full cypher for a little over a year and its falling apart.
unnecessary duckdive, never had good experiences with west wetty's.
my final answer in the matter: go billabong, (potentially ripcurl flashbomb, i've actually hated ripcurl until the flasbomb where im finally impressed about them), buell, or Japanese wetsuits.
No go: xcel (warm yet very inflexible), hyperflex (if you like hyperflex you've never experienced anything better), west, and jet pilot (yuck).
Maybe: Oneill (same suits since 2006 besides some marketing gimmicks)
Great suits besides the durability issue: quiksilver (made quantum leaps in their wetsuits the past few years)
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Hilcorp Looking for Investor for $2B of South Texas Pipelines
By Jonathan Shieber
Hilcorp Energy, the nation's third-largest private oil and gas exploration and production company, is looking for a financial partner or buyer for roughly $2 billion of oil and gas pipeline assets in south Texas, Dow Jones has learned.Only last year, Houston-based Hilcorp, along with its financial partner KKR, sold 141,000 acres they had acquired in the Eagle Ford region of Texas in a $3.5 billion deal with Marathon Oil.
Now, the company appears to be looking for someone to take on a piece of its system of gathering, processing and distributing assets in the region and has hired Bank of Montreal as the sole financial adviser on the sale, according to people with knowledge of the company's plans.
Hilcorp didn't respond to a request for comment.
On Monday, EPL Oil and Gas Inc . said that it had agreed to buy certain shallow-water Gulf of Mexico properties from Hilcorp in a $550 million deal. With that sale, Hilcorp is exiting the Gulf of Mexico shelf.
Even as Hilcorp looks to shed its assets in Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, the company is building up its presence in another resource-rich corner of the country — Alaska.
"Hilcorp is in the midst of a reset of various assets," said one private equity investor familiar with the company's plans. "[The company] has been involved in a large acquisition and is trying to redeploy capital in that direction."
In April, Marathon Oil said that it had sold its natural gas production, pipeline and storage assets to Hilcorp. The terms of that transaction, currently under review by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, were undisclosed.
The sale includes 17 million barrels of oil equivalent of net proved reserves across 10 fields in Alaska's Cook Inlet, on the state's southern coast, as well as natural gas storage and stakes in natural gas pipelines. At the beginning of the year, Hilcorp closed a deal with Chevron Corp . to buy its oil-and-gas-producing fields in the same region. Those assets were producing 3,900 barrels of oil and 85 million cubic feet of natural gas at the time the deal closed.
In recent months, producers including Hilcorp have made new investments into Alaska. If the Marathon deal is approved, Hilcorp would account for between 60% and 80% of the Alaskan gas market, depending on the season.
As Hilcorp turns its attention northward, there are plenty of investors that could bid on its South Texas assets. In the past few months private equity firms have committed at least $5.1 billion to oil and gas gathering, distributing and processing companies, according to data collected from LBO Wire, a Dow Jones publication.
For investors, the move marks a natural progression for firms which poured billions into oil and gas exploration and production companies over the past five years.
Several firms have built up war chests to make midstream investments. NGP Energy Capital Management was able to raise $3.59 billion for its latest energy fund, while Blackstone banked $2.5 billion in commitments for its first energy-focused vehicle.
Over the same period Apollo Global Management closed on $950 million for its natural resources fund, which could invest in midstream assets, while Riverstone Holdings was approaching a $4.5 billion close on its $6 billion energy investment fund as of June.
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BiographyDr. Richard Nance is an American musician. He is currently associate professor of music and conductor of The Choir of the West at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington USA.
Nance holds bachelors and masters degrees from West Texas A&M (then West Texas State University) and the DMA degree from Arizona State University. Dr. Nance has studied conducting with Hugh Sanders, Douglas McEwen and David Stocker, and studied composition with Joseph Nelson and Randall Shinn.
Prior to coming to Washington, he taught for seven years at Amarillo College in Amarillo, Texas.[2] Nance joined the faculty of Pacific Lutheran University originally as associate director of choral activities in 1992, where he directed the University Chorale, University Singers and Choral Union and taught music education courses and private composition. In January 2007, he was appointed director of choral activities and conductor of The Choir of the West at PLU.
He is an active member of the American Choral Directors Association, presently serving as state president for Washington and as the Choral Review Editor for the Choral Journal. Three choirs under his direction have appeared at ACDA reigonal conventions. Dr. Nance also serves as director of music at St. Mary's Episcopal Church of Lakewood, Washington, and is active as a clinician and adjudicator.
In 2002, Nance conducted the PLU Choral Union tour of Europe and at the World Harp Congress in Geneva, Switzerland, where his Mass for the New Millennium was a featured work.
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Sonic is going to kick some robotnik but! Will you make orchestrations from Sonic 4 too?
I will when the game is released - even though I have all of the Sonic 4: Episode 1 music now, I'd like to wait until it's released first. I'll probably do some from Sonic 3 & Knuckles first, though.
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Holocaust survivors from Hungary are nearing a deal with U.S. government over compensation for valuables stolen by Nazis and turned over to the U.S. military but never returned to the owners.
NEW YORK - Holocaust survivors from Hungary are nearing a deal with the United States government in the "gold train" case, in which the survivors are suing for compensation from the U.S. for valuables that were stolen by the Nazis and turned over to the U.S. military but never returned to the owners.
Attorneys for the survivors, who filed a class-action lawsuit in May 2001, asked a federal judge in Miami, Florida, to postpone a hearing due to take place last Wednesday because they wanted to continue negotiations with the U.S. Justice Department.
The judge accepted the attorneys' request, in which they said they had been making "substantial progress toward a resolution." The new hearing is set for this coming Wednesday.
The gold train case relates to a train carrying artwork, jewelry, gold and other valuables that the pro-Nazi Hungarian government had plundered from Hungarian Jews in 1944.
At the end of World War II, U.S. military forces seized the train, which had been sent to Austria. The survivors' lawsuit contends that the property was never returned to its owners or heirs and was instead looted by U.S. military personnel.
Meanwhile, Jewish community leaders reacted with restraint to reports of progress.
World Jewish Congress President Edgar Bronfman is due to deliver a speech today in which he will say that the U.S. should decide now on some arrangement in the gold train case, because if it doesn't, it will have failed where other governments around the world have succeeded.
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A producer of "I Love Lucy" will evoke "A Lucille Ball Evening" in St. Augustine Beach Saturday. The unusual performance will begin at 7 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship and Temple Bet Yam, 2487 S.R. A1A S.
Howard Rayfiel, who produced many of the immensely popular television programs, will screen two "Lucy" shows and talk about his relationships with star-crossed legends Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. Rayfiel was also general counsel to Desilu Productions, which became a TV production empire.
Ventriloquist Paul Winchell, a guest on one of the "Lucy" shows on the playbill, will have a live phone conversation. Winchell did the voice-over for many Disney films. He voiced Tigger in "Winnie the Pooh."
Winchell's sidekick puppets, Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff, are immortalized in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
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All eyes set to focus on London
By ROB LONGLEY, QMI Agency
A tourist snaps pictures in front of the Tower Bridge ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games on July 22, 2012 in London, England. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images/AFP)
LONDON, ENGLAND - Remarkable what a day of sunshine can do after four weeks of soggy gloom that made the prospect of playing host to the 2012 Olympic Games damp at best.
As the opening ceremony nears and the city begins to buzz around the already crowded streets, moaning about the impending traffic woes and security concerns was replaced by talk of the weather Sunday as Londoners flocked outdoors to the parks and pub patios in search of a long overdue sunburn.
In a sporting context, the glory of Bradley Higgins becoming the first Briton to win the Tour de France helped raise the national pride following a failed Euro 2012 effort in soccer, Andy Murray's close-but-no-cigar showing at Wimbledon and a lack of Union Jack to celebrate at the British Open in Lytham St. Annes.
And if the public needed a little rallying cry to kick off the opening week of the Games, the venerable Sunday Times supplied it with a screaming headline spread over two broadsheet pages:"Stand by, world, London is going to outdo Beijing."
Ultimately, Games officials and British politicians are banking on London Pride being more than the name of the popular ale that has long been served in these parts as the city -- and country -- gets ready to embrace the Olympics. That they will take place in one of the more congested and complicated cities ever to host them only adds to the challenge ahead.
"I believe we'll be better than the Beijing Games," British cultural secretary James Hunt told the Times. "They did a brilliant job, but it was a Games that was playing to China's strengths and about China's role in the modern world.
"We have something different to say. London is one of the great global cities. I believe it's the greatest city on the planet. And this is our chance to showcase that to the whole world."
Depends on who is scoring, of course, and ultimately whether the concerns that hound every Olympics before they begin prove to be unobtrusive and benign or threaten to ruin the mood.
Similar worries in Beijing four years ago were quickly and efficiently put to rest by a government that wasn't going to allow anything to disrupt the propaganda show that those Games in many ways were. Four years prior, Athens put on a memorable Olympics, at least in part due to the fact that thousands of Greeks were so worried about the threats of traffic mayhem that they bolted the city en masse.
London is historically one of the world's most difficlut cities to move around in, a blight that will be even more pronounced now that Olympic lanes on the city's roadways are in effect, guaranteeing massive traffic snarls and frustration. As well, city officials plan to limit the amount of vehicles into the city, which will even further tax the city's efficient but crowded train and tube network.
Esthetically, London is ready to look good on television with no shortage of the "beauty shots" that make producers drool. In a city thick with iconic vistas, both historic and otherwise, we'll see plenty.
The torch relay hit new heights Sunday morning when it made a round on the iconic London Eye in the hands of 17-year-old Amelia Hempleman-Adams. The famed Tower Bridge is adorned with Olympic rings and the newly renamed Elizabeth Tower, which houses Big Ben, is lit up nightly in Olympic colours.
Barring catastrophe, like any Olympics, success will be best judged by what happens on the fields of play. Wiggins' win Sunday on the streets of Paris certainly will help pump up the partisanship just days before the opening ceremony.
Pressure will shift to Team GB and the goal to exceed the haul of 19 gold medals it collected in China. In one bookmaker's shop here Sunday, projections were for the Brits to collect 25-plus of the shiniest prize, a figure that might be on the optimistic side given the pressure that goes with it.
The home team is only one of the measuring sticks, of course. As always, the host city, with its grand ambitions, faces the biggest test of all.
"This is a very important event for London, Great Britain and sport," IOC president Jacques Rogge told reporters when he arrived this weekend. "For some it will be a difficulty, but I believe the nation loves and wants the Games. We will try and keep the problems to as low a level as possible.
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Carla Harvey & Heidi Shepherd of the Butcher Babies
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Video Interview Interview with Carla Harvey & Heidi Shepherd from Butcher Babies
Carla Harvey and Heidi Shepherd, AKA the Butcher Babies, have been making quite a name for themselves with their intense performances and risqué attire. Both Harvey and Shepherd are former Playboy personalities and they joined forces out of their love of metal music. Over the last few years, Butcher Babies have opened up for the likes of Otep, Anthrax, and In This Moment as well as playing unforgettable headlining shows in between.
Just before their January 20th performance in Columbus, OH, Harvey and Shepherd were kind enough to sit down and speak with Hardrock Haven about being on tour with Marilyn Manson, their upcoming debut record on Century Media, and what it's like to shock audiences in 2013:
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Update: In
unrelated untimely celebration of the good news Rick Perry pulls out of the GOP nom race.
It's over. It may not feel over, it sure as hell doesn't seem over for a lot of people including me. But the Great Recession is over. I was pretty sure late last year when I saw the confirmation bump in the trend, but I'm as certain now as one can be about these things.
(DoL.gov) — In the week ending January 14, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 352,000, a decrease of 50,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 402,000. The 4-week moving average was 379,000, a decrease of 3,500 from the previous week's revised average of 382,500. The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.7 percent for the week ending January 7, a decrease of 0.2 percentage point from the prior week's unrevised rate.
So we have a situation where the worst economy in 70 years began under a Republican President and the most conservative congress we've had in my life — after they ruled for years with the gale of 9-11 at their backs — now we have an economy that is recovering under a centrist Democratic liberal and a bipartisan Congress, and most of the recovery ledge was passed two or more years ago by a democratically controlled Congress. It's a lead-pipe cinch.
Republican policies, at least as they exist now, suck. They do not work. Deregulation of financial industries causes economic cluster-fucks. Tax cuts for the super rich and corporations increases the deficit leaving us unable to properly react with fiscal stimulus and middle-class support during the time of greatest need. Those give-aways do not trickle down, they only create powerful centers of influence dedicated to procuring more give-aways to the wealthy and providing more outs when the wealthy fuck up. Wars on the national credit card bequeath debt, death and misery for the nation's best and brightest and exacerbate attempts to crawl out of the economic pit.
This is not speculation, these are facts of recent history. What's the saying about people who do the same thing over and over again and expect different results?


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Somehow I doubt that there are any person(s) inside the tree.I bet that the outside is all there is to the library.
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Even before having a chance to review Grambling State University surveillance video, Grambling's city police chief is defending city firefighters who sprayed water at students earlier this week on campus. Chief Clark now tells us that the four firefighters were defending themselves from a barrage of snowballs, some of which were laced with rocks, glass and other hard materials.
Chief Tommy Clark said he had expected to see or receive those campus surveillance tapes by today, Friday, February 14th. But Clark said he was told by the university that they're not ready to be reviewed yet. So, he's still waiting.
And Grambling State University Public Relations Director Will Sutton told us there's no update on the case. He added that it's unlikely KSLA News 12 will ever get to see the tapes for ourselves. Grambling city Fire Chief David Wells told KSLA News 12 on Thursday that it's his understanding there are multiple surveillance cameras that could shed more light on exactly what happened late Tuesday night, February 11th, and into early Wednesday morning.
Here's what we do know: A total of 12 fire alarms were pulled in 6 different buildings, forcing city fire crews to come out to the Grambling State University campus. And it forced hundreds of people outside into the cold weather. On Wednesday, Grambling campus police arrested 20-year old student Devin Jones on charges of interfering with a firefighter and disturbing the peace. And Chief Clark said more charges could be coming.
Some students later told us that students pulled the alarms to bring more people outside for a snowball fight. Officials say at least 200 students were there at the time of the clash that unfolded between firefighters and 15 of those students who reportedly 'incited the situation.'
Chief Clark met with us immediately after attending a Friday morning meeting that Grambling Mayor Ed Jones had called with Chief Clark and Fire Chief David Wells to review the case. During our interview, Chief Clark made it clear some of those snowballs contained rock, glass and other material: "Which started causing injuries to the firefighters to the face and hurt them on body parts as the snowballs would strike."
Chief Clark said one of the two injured firefighters suffered two black eyes. One firefighter was treated at the hospital, while the other at a medical clinic, later.
Ice and snow that night had kept Grambling city police officers tied up, leaving only campus police at the scene, trying to help-out the four firefighters. "Of course they're trained to stay together and in the course of retreating back to the vehicles they thought it was best to spray water in the air to try to move the crowd back so they could seek cover and retreat back to the vehicles," said Clark.
But some Grambling students, who said they were there, had a much different take on what happened. "Yes, I was out there. I had fun. We were all out there. We had fun," said student Elizabeth Jenkins.
In fact, Jenkins told us that from what she saw, there was a playful atmosphere between students and the firefighters, not a clash. "Yeah, they was playing back with us like, 'you know how strong a fire hose is?' They didn't even have it turned all the way up. They was actually spraying it in the air." But Chief Clark said he's never heard that side of the story.
Then there's one student's reaction to the Grambling students being sprayed, that we originally aired on Wednesday. Senior Starlean Brandon said of the incident: "I was horrified. I felt like we was gone back to slavery days, you know, when I saw the firefighters, you know, spraying the kids now, even though the firefighters were black and the students were black."
It turns out, Brandon only had the reaction after watching the video later on social media.Copyright 2014 KSLA. All rights reserved.
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Jim Ibbotson '69 Discusses Life After the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
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August 10, 2006, Greencastle, Ind. - "Jim Ibbotson spent nearly four decades playing for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, a country rock outfit that enjoyed national fame," begins a profile of the 1969 DePauw University graduate in the Colorado Springs Independent. "Their most well-known single, a cover of Jerry Jeff Walker's Mr. Bojangles, made Billboard's Top 10 in 1971. They also won a Grammy for the best country vocal performance in 1989."
Ibbotson tells the newspaper that he and his bandmates were "closer than brothers." Jeanine Stewart writes, "But when life on the road wore old about two years ago, Ibbotson started performing solo. Now he revels in the freedom to follow his whims during shows. In a concert a couple weeks ago, he performed for twice as long as planned, citing a 'magical' vibe. And he believes strongly in the importance of playing fresh material."
Ibbotson elaborates: "In the Bible, it says 'Sing unto the Lord a new song,' not 'Play your greatest hits over and over again.'"
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Configuring the Cookie Mode for Session State (IIS 7)
Applies To: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista
One way to track session state for clients that connect to a Web server is to use cookies. You can configure a Web server to use cookies, not to use cookies, or to select cookie behavior that depends on the browser being used for the connection.
For information about the levels at which you can perform these procedures, and the modules, handlers, and permissions that are required for these procedures, see Session State Feature Requirements (IIS 7).


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Destruction of phyla precedes origin of species
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There were 75-100 phyla, but over time some disappeared. This graph depicts the Cambrian explosion where most phyla appeared and how over time some phyla disappeared. This is graphically the pattern that is central to Darwin's doubt. It destroys the notion of Darwinian gradualism:
Remarkably, as phyla disappeared, new species appeared. This is a curious pattern. Some have labeled this phenomenon "disparity precedes diversity".
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylum
In biological classification:
phylum is a taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class. Traditionally, in botany the term division is used instead of "phylum", although in 1993 the International Botanical Congress accepted the
designation "phylum".
Phyla can be thought of as grouping organisms based on general specialization of body plan.
A body plan is the blueprint for the way the body of an organism is laid out. Each species of multicellular organism—plant, fungus, red algae, slime mold, among others—has a body plan. This article is about animal body plans.
An animal's symmetry,[1] its number of body segments and limbs are all aspects of its body plan. One of the key issues of developmental biology is the evolution of body plans as different as those of a starfish, or a mammal, which come from a close common biological heritage-both are deuterostomes.
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Project to improve risk assessment and monitoring of offshore Carbon Capture and Storage sites
The world's first 'real world' deep-water controlled experiment simulating emission from a submerged carbon dioxide storage reservoir is to take place in the North Sea, with the aim of further verifying the safety of offshore carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and storage (CCS).
Small quantities of CO₂ will be injected into mud on the sea floor in the North Sea, 100km North East of Aberdeen. This site is in the vicinity of a depleted gas field and is a typical location that could be used for carbon dioxide storage.
First of a kind
This first of a kind experiment, due to take place in 2018, will form part of a €16M collaborative project led by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), which will enable scientists to develop a system for detecting and quantifying the volume of any CO₂ released. This work will help provide greater reassurance around the safety of CCS operations in the future.
- Currently, it is challenging to detect and quantify CO₂ emissions in the marine environment because of dispersion and attenuation effects, the small volumes involved and considering large existing natural variability. This project is a really exciting opportunity to develop innovative, safe and cost effective technology to address these problems, Project leader, Dr Doug Connelly from the NOC, said.
Leakage scenarios and local impact predictions
In order to 'listen' for the released CO2, the project partners will be developing acoustic and chemical sensors that can be fitted into robot-subs. Automated photographic analysis software will also be developed to enable the detection of any visual changes at the release site. Additional technology used by this project will include devices in the water and on the seabed to monitor changes in the chemistry, temperature, salinity and currents in the water.
- In this project, the NIVA model of benthic redox chemistry BROM will be used to detect and propagate the biogeochemical impacts of CO2 leakage from CCS and natural seepage, with a focus on the sediments and benthic-pelagic interface, Dr Evgeniy Yakushev, Research Scientist at NIVA's section for Marine Biogeochemistry and Oceanography, says.
- The model will then be used to investigate leakage scenarios, predicting local impacts on the sediment biogeochemistry and benthic ecosystem and providing boundary conditions for models tracking the wider-range impacts in the pelagic. The model will also facilitate the detection of slow/chronic leakages by comparing predictions with routine measurements provided by the monitoring program.
Horizon 2020
All this technology will be launched at the site in Scotland a year before the controlled release in order to acquire an in-depth picture of the natural variability of the environment on a daily, weekly and seasonal timescale. This information will enable scientists to better differentiate natural changes from those resulting from the controlled release.
This project, called STEMM-CCS (STrategies for the Environmental Monitoring of Marine CCS), has received funding from the European Union's Horizon2020 project under the grant agreement number 654462. In addition to the industry partner Shell, this project will bring together the University of Southampton and Heriot Watt University, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, GEOMAR and MPI from Germany, NIVA, Uni Research and the Universities of Bergen and Tromso from Norway, the Technical University of Graz from Austria and Seascape Consultants Ltd.


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The government said today it wants a new law by April 2009 obligating internet service providers (ISPs) to stop illegal file sharing on their networks. This is one of the most aggressive anti-internet piracy stances in Europe to date.
The government says that, in the meantime, it will look at "statutory solutions" that could be used until a law is in place, as well as tougher penalties for copyright infringement.
The warnings came in a report released on Friday by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, which looks at how the UK's creative industries can be better supported.
British ISPs have been in voluntary discussions with copyright holders on ways to combat file sharing on P2P (peer-to-peer) networks but have yet to reach an agreement.
If no agreement is reached, "the government will equip itself to introduce legislation swiftly if suitable arrangements between ISPs and relevant sectors are not forthcoming or prove insufficient," the report said.
That kind of legislation would essentially require ISPs to examine what content a subscriber is downloading, opening a range of privacy concerns.
Representatives of the Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) could not be reached for comment, but the ISP industry generally opposes measures that requires monitoring content on their networks.
That view is supported in existing in European Union and UK directives, which says ISPs are not liable for material passing on their networks.
The UK's moves come as other European countries consider new ways to stamp out piracy. France is expected to introduce a bill shortly that will require ISPs to cut off internet access to subscribers who persistently share material under copyright without permission after receiving a warning.
Earlier this month in Denmark, a court ordered one of the country's largest ISPs to block access to a website that forms a critical part of the BitTorrent file-sharing network. The ISP, Tele2, plans to fight the order.
Music and movie industry groups have supported the creation of laws to stop piracy. FACT (The Federation Against Copyright Theft) welcomed the government's move, saying in a statement it fosters a greater respect for intellectual property.
File sharing has not only posed a legal problem for ISPs but also a technical one.
The heavy use of P2P services such as BitTorrent and eDonkey has strained networks. ISPs have contended that file sharing has degraded the quality of service for their subscribers.
Although estimates vary by region, P2P traffic can comprise between 50 percent and 90 percent of all internet traffic on an ISP's network, according to iPoque, a Germany company that specialises in appliances for ISPs to manage networks.
Comcast, a major US ISP, recently admitted to using techniques to slow down P2P traffic in order to provide more consistent service. Comcast denies blocking any content.


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Love at Work Ministries proclaims the "good news" of Jesus Christ in both words and actions in Alajuelita, Costa Rica. 2013 promises to be an amazing year for Love at Works through its work with the needy through its housing, education, feeding center, and health care ministries. This summer will be a housing build of 12 homes for 12 needy families currently living in unstable shacks in a dangerous slum area. Work continues on a new feeding center that services hundreds of children per day, and their youth ministry brings so many young people to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Love at Works is doing outstanding work for the Kingdom, and I recommend it highly.
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Love at Works Ministries serves the forgotten people of Alajueleta Costa Rica by feeding children, educating children, building homes, and supporting men's and women's rehab centers. Their mission is to spread the good news of Jesus Christ and follow his commands to help the poor on this earth. I have been able to travel to Costa Rica on one mission trip and was able to observe the great work they provide the poor and lost in the shanty town they serve with love. I have also been able to work with Love at Works in the USA in fundraising including the recent Race 4 More, which raised over $100,000 to start building a new children's feeding center which provides many children their meal of the day. I highly recommend Love at Works as an outstanding, efficient, and effective nonprofit in serving the needy.
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text: Big data analytics innovator Mu Sigma, based in Chicago and Bangalore, has acquired the Singapore-based social media analytics firm Webfluenz. Mu Sigma, one of the most successful Indian tech startups, with a billion-dollar valuation, counts more than a quarter of Fortune 500 companies among its customers. Its USP is to conflate data from multiple sources – people and machines, processes and platforms – to help its clients make intelligent decisions in critical areas like risk, supply chain, and marketing. Mu Sigma employs over 3,000 decision scientists with experience across 10 verticals.


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ApproachThe approach is identical to the one for the east ridge of Elk Tooth. Please refer to that excellent description. To summarize: from the Middle Saint Vrain TH hike for four miles to reach the wilderness boundary. Follow the Middle Saint Vrain Glacier Trail. Staying on trail is quite easy until it reaches a talus slope. There, watch out for a crossing of the creek on logs. Notice that there are many cairns on the wrong side beyond the crossing point and that before sunrise it's not difficult to miss the right spot.
After threading the stream a few times, leave the trail to climb the first significant weakness in the wall that forms the north rim of the drainage. This gully is full of scree, but if you stay to the right and use the grassy slopes and the broken rocks, it's not bad. At the top of the gully turn left and follow the crest of the ridge to the first false summit. From there you can see that Elk Tooth has quite a few such summits.
The most expedient route is to skirt them on the right (north) until you are under the main summit that you gain from the northeast. This keeps the difficulties at Class 2. You could actually skirt the main summit as well, but coming back another time just to tag Elk Tooth will probably not appeal to you. Elk Tooth is seldom visited. The summit register was placed there in 1989 and there were some ten entries for 2004 and five for 2005 (up to August 21). Enjoy the scenery and rejoyce: after nine miles, the approach is over.
Route DescriptionFrom the summit of Elk Tooth, descend its west ridge for about 400 ft toward the saddle that divides it from Ogalalla Peak. The strategy is simple: keep initially to the right (north) of the crest, bypassing a few towers in the process. You soon come to a point where progress on the north side becomes suddenly very problematic. You can't miss it , because from Class 2 you would go directly to Class 5. (See this picture.) It's time to switch to the south side of the ridge, along which you continue with the occasional Class 3 move down to the saddle.
From the saddle, stay left of the crest of the ridge climbing on talus until you are under a cliff that blocks direct access to the summit. There are other cliffs along the way, but they can all be obviously bypassed on the left. There are at least three options to pass the final cliff. The easiest is to perform a short exposed traverse to the right of the crest (Class 3) and then aim directly for the summit on talus. This is what I did, since rain and hail had made the rock slippery and thunder added a sense of urgency. I have not tried the other two options, and therefore I only mention them briefly.
The cliff band forms a nice slab in correspondence of the crest of the ridge. Direct ascent of this slab is reportedly Class 4. (Source: Mark Oveson on climbingboulder.com.) The third option, according to Roach, is to traverse left (south) on ledges until you find a gully leading to the summit. This is also Class 4. I have seen the slab and briefly considered attempting it, but I have not seen the gully.


text: I only wish that Mike G was still here, so I could read the interactions between him and Pete. __________________ You bring him back in here and I'll send him a packin' too. He can't deal with my game jack. I'm the undisputed king of pain. The master of disaster. If only I could go one on one with him I tell you I'd show you all what I'm made of. I'm tired of playing second fiddle to him when he's a no show . It's about time I got my propers here. I claimed 600K in sales in 2007. I tell you I'd claim more if it wasn't for Uncle Sam looking over my shoulder. Doesn't that account for anything? Gambino was probably good for 200K maybe 150K. He's a one man band with an out of tune instrument. He is a dinosaur, unable to cope with today's complicated lighting schemes. Why am I constantly defending myself against him. I'm Pete Scalia darnitt! Undisputed heavy weight champion of landscape lighting. I'm tired now I gotta take a break.


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Bollywood actresses and their wardrobe malfunction have become so common now. Just few days back Nargis Fakhri fell prey to it and now, it's Alia Bhatt. This happenend when the actress recently appeared at an event to launch a new product that she endorses.
Alia Bhatt has become the most sought after actress after her huge success with her films like Highway, 2 States and Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania. Although she was looking beautiful in a white dress something drastically went wrong for her.
She fell prey to this oops moment when she lifted her leg and revealed a little too much. Alia Bhatt and her oops moment seems to be endless. When she was promoting her film Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania, Varun Dhawan lifted the actress and revealed her undergarment by mistake.
Even after Alia Bhatt revealed way too much at the event she didn't lose her confidence or her chirpy attitude. Alia is way too cool about the incident.
See pics to know the oops moment of Alia...


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Product Information for C2G TruLink 4-Port UXGA Monitor Splitter/Extender (Female Input)
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