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Among the list of things we love most in this world, dogs and peanut butter rank toward the top. When the two are combined, it's impossible not to think we have died and gone to doggy heaven. Think about it: if humans can't get a grip on avoiding the whole peanut-butter-stuck-on-the-roof-of-our-mouths dilemma, how in the world can we expect a dog to do it? Give a pooch a spoonful of this stuff, and what ensues is straight up entertaining. Check out our favorite web videos of dogs going to town on peanut butter.


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Thanks, Katzmum. I guess it must not grow everywhere.
This is lovely, I too have never seen it before, thank you!
Thank you, Pat! (We crossed -- sorry I missed you!)
Thank you, LJ, TS, Mimi, & Celeste. Glad you enjoyed it, and glad some are learning something new. :)
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That is so pretty. Didn't know that was what it was. :)
This is lovely - great puzzle. I too had not heard of bittersweet. I thought it was just a word to describe an emotion! It's fun to learn an entirely new thing. Thanks!
I had to look it up, too. It's very pretty.
Bittersweet! It reminds me of my Mom. She used ot grow it and make wreaths out of it and put it into "fall bouquets."
Thank you, Suzy, Snooker, Robbie, & Shirley. :)
I 've not heard of or seen Bittersweet, must check it out, pretty, Thanks Patti.
I enjoyed looking this up PLG, thanks, really nice puzzle.
Very pretty photo.
A seasonal favorite. Thanks, Patti!
Francine-- Wow, 5 minutes of hail is a lot! I hope you didn't have any damage from it! We have also had frost overnight several times. Our flowers are done too.
Thank you, Jacques. Sometimes simple is good! Glad you liked this.
simply but beautiful, i love it!!
BTW, you and I have compared our individual weather in past. About 7-10 days ago we had hale for approx 5 minutes. We're in Eastern Ontario - waaaay too soon for this. Also had frost during night ..=..dead flowers.
..Oh well.
Thank you, Francine. I had the vine a couple years before I knew what it was! A friend stopped by and noticed it and told me what I had!
They're really lovely. Patti, I had to google as I knew nothing about them.
Thank you, Chickie, Ank, & Roseheather. :) I do enjoy it on the railing of the deck. But it's so prolific that I have to keep cutting it back.
Love that title. I recall my mother taking my grandma into the countryside to get bittersweet in the fall.
A beauty, thanks Patti
Nice photo PLG! You are so lucky to have bittersweet. ( :

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Good for you, Gary. I'm so sorry about her aunt. Any loss is so hard to bear, but especially when it is someone very close who you care deeply about. Glad the plant helped a bit. Maybe she can name it for her aunt.............
Sandy- Thanks so much Sandy, unfortunately my whole week has been nothing but work, work, work! But that's o.k. as we have to pay off our bills sometime!Ank- L.O.L. Thanks Ank, glad you think so, as I did too!Ann- You are quite welcome my friend, I bought Monica a plant this weekend and it couldn't have come at a better time as she just lost a very close Aunt 2 days ago to lung cancer! She's pretty distraught over it but is getting through it at the same time! She's a pretty strong person and I admire her for that, she loved her plant by the way! Thanks!
Such a precious, sweet face. Thanks, Gary..............
Swet sweet sweet, thanks Gary
Oh how sweet Gary! Thanks for the fun puzzle. Hope you are having a good week.
Clever way to put it TrudyTai! Thanks so much for stopping by!
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I was making corn muffins the other day and thought to myself, "Mmmm, honey butter would be perfect for this." I then looked up and saw this little bottle staring at me.
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A columnar DBMS is an implementation of the relational theory, but with a twist. The data storage layer does not contain records. Due to the variable column lengths within a row, a small column with low cardinality, or variability of values, may reside completely within one block while another column with high cardinality and longer length may take a thousand blocks. In columnar, all the same data – your data – is there. It's just organized differently and automatically by the DBMS. Go beyond Dewitt and into the actual data pages. Learn about the columnar orientation and how it can be effective for your needs. This is the orientation of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, which will have an optional column-oriented storage layer.
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That was interesting.
Clayton was on the phone with his mom yesterday and he came to me and said that his mom wanted to know if they could spend the night after their dentist appointment and miss school the next day. I said no, that I didn't think that was a legitimate reason to miss school, but that school was closed the following Monday and Tuesday, so if she wanted them that weekend, she could keep them till Tuesday afternoon. She said yes and actually texted me and thanked me. Shocker, I know.
I asked her through text if she still wanted them that Wednesday evening after their appointments and she said "yes, I'll take them whenever I can get them". I just had to shake my head, because no she won't. She's allowed to get them every other weekend, but she doesn't exercise that right.
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|EDIT: After like 2-3 years its still not done. Ive never had the inspiration or skills to finish it... one day maybe?
A very far off dream cosplay I'd love to do which looks very complicated Especially the huge wings.
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oh hellz yes!!! ive been wanting to do ruby for so long..but chickend out of it lol XD this is gunna be so awesome <3 cant wiat to see this xxx
weee ruby =D
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ZOMG RUUUBY! <3 <3 And for Fuyu, aha yes this'll be so epic I cant wait to see this *_* You're making me want to do Yue now XD Anyway lots of good luck! X3
D8 Do it!!!! I really want a Yue to tease x3
aww Ruby, cant wait to see this, good luck with those wings they will be amazing!
woo, progress is looking good x3
Ooooh! Ruby Moon! XD It's looking great so far! Makes me wanna do Yue.. God I loved Yue D: ENGLISH VERSION DX His voice was so much sexier Anyway, looking awesome! Cant wait to see more progress
the progress on this looks great ^^
Epic progress!! If I wasn't Yue I'd nick what you've done so far and wear it myself XD I look forward to pairing as your Yue!
Awesome! Really looking forward to seeing more of this! Especially the wig! You'll have to let me know what day you're doing it as we're doing Yuuko and Clow Reed.
First I spot Yue now Ruby! Really would love to see this
Oh the days of card captor sakura!
I love Ruby Moon! Looking excellent so far!
Looking great so far! : D
x3 Thank you! SHould be done soon got a decent wig and working on the skirt and 2nd flap slowly yet surely xD
Woaaah you don't see many ruby moon cosplays, will be awesome, looking good so far :)
The progress on this is looking great hun! Of course, I'd love pictures with you *_*
I'm gunna be cosplaying him at Ayacon next year ^_^ Oh I'd love to do a Yukito cosplay too! I love them both XD
Wow, I've totally missed this! Progress looks GORGEOUS! :)
Wow, cannot wait to see this done. I don't think I've ever seen anyone do Ruby either. He is so cool! Looks great so far. :D
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The steep angular corner is jammed and bridged to a stance on the Pulpit. Continue up the wide and awkward corner crack above to a tricky but well-protected exit up a short blank groove.
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It's much easier to bridge and layback this route, rather than jamming it. Bit hard for VS perhaps, but plenty of good resting positions.
this is solid VS, but really sustained - really tests your stamina. the last moves had me very worried - it all shelves toward you
I found the hardest bit near the bottom, went up and down several times trying to layback it, eventually tried jamming and it worked a treat. The rest seemed easy in comparison. Much as I'd like to claim my first HVS, I'd agree it's solid VS.
Very sustained. Very topend VS, maybe HVS for wimps...don't give up though - each section has a good ledge at it's end. Note that the crag description gives the grade as HVS. A bit of consistency would be nice :-)
Sustained top end VS, excellant rests bomber gear throughout.
Can be jammed all the way in damp conditions or bridged in the dry. OK, its long but with rest ledges at regular intervals, nothing any all round VS leader shouldn't be happy to tackle.
This is graded HVS 4c in the old froggat guide,but VS 4C is a lot more appropiate slippy start but good gear and holds all the way to the lovely peg belay at the top.
Ypu're up to date then, its been VS for 3 years
Climbed in damp & rainy conditions and felt HVS 4c - especially since it is so sustained and it's fairly unrelenting. Not going to argue though if the official consenus is VS. Top section caught me out as a second - wasn't expecting it to be as tricky as it was!
The start isnt too abd if you can jam ,the second section is very awkward and pumpy if you hang about, and the top section is quite technical. Top-end VS but no more I think.
I decide to test the belay stake at the top by pushing it,, and it snapped... so theres no stake there anymore at the top
A belay can be set using the solid fence post but you will need extra rope. I had to walk down and borrow another rope as my 50m didn't quite reach! DavidR
Topend VS without a doubt. sustained but bomber cams (if you have plenty)
Hard for the grade and harder than I remember. And I'd wish I'd read the comments about the stake - best to take a belay on the big ledge just below the top
Two very useful belay stakes now in place. Thank you whoever put them there even though one's a bit wobbly.
Did this and The Mall (VS 4c) at Millstone within a week of each other. Both really similar routes but I found Great Harry much easier, possibly because the crack was the perfect size for jams. Definitely VS 4c though. My only complaint is that it didn't go on for several more pitches.
Excellent route, its what VS climbing is all about, sustained 4c all the way up, first section laybacking or jam you decide,best to do two pitches for full enjoyment. Top pitch hard to start but gets easier as you move up. 3 star route!
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"The incident was not disclosed sooner because the military does not discuss classified surveillance missions, but agreed to answer questions after news reports revealed the shooting."
In other news you have to wait for after an election to find out about... two Iranian jets fired on a US drone in international airspace.
The unarmed, unmanned drone was conducting "routine surveillance" over the Persian Gulf when it was "intercepted" by Iran.
two Iranian jets fired twice, missing on both attempts -- the drone headed away from the Iranian coast, landing safely soon after at an undisclosed location. The Iranian jets pursued the drone for a short period before giving up.
Little said the U.S. government has protested to the Iranians. Asked about how the U.S. could respond, he said: "We have a wide range of options from diplomatic to military."
Bowing usually works for Obama. He could try bowing to the Iranian planes.
He would not say whether there were actually plans for a military response. Asked if this should be considered an act of war, Little said he didn't want to get into "legal characterizations" of the event.
So why didn't we hear about it before? Because it was classified due to concerns about national elections.
The shooting in the Gulf, which occurred just before 5 a.m. (0900 GMT) on Nov. 1, was unprecedented, Pentagon press secretary George Little said. The incident was not disclosed sooner because the military does not discuss classified surveillance missions, but agreed to answer questions after news reports revealed the shooting.
Right again. So which part of this report impacted national security exactly? Were the Iranians unaware of what they had done? No, it would have been bad timing before the election and it would have undermined Valerie Jarrett's dirty nuclear deal with Iran.
Maybe Iran doesn't know how much their pilots suck, since they ended up purging the pre-revolutionary air force?
Little said the drone was about 16 miles (26 kilometers) off the Iranian coast when the Russian-made SU-25 Frogfoot warplane intercepted it and opened fire. He said it was the first time an unmanned U.S. aircraft was shot at in international airspace over the Gulf.
According to the Pentagon, the Iranian war plane made at least two passes by the slower-moving drone, firing "multiple rounds."
Little said that once the Predator drone came under fire, it began to move further out and the Iranian aircraft continued to pursue it "for some period of time before letting it return to base." The Iranian plane did not follow the drone all the way back to its base, Little said, declining to say where that base was.
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With so many options, choosing whether to boil up whole-wheat penne or multigrain fettuccine can be a challenge. This pasta primer will help you find one that matches your nutritional needs—and your personal taste.
WHAT'S IN IT Traditional pasta is made with semolina, a type of refined durum wheat. "It's not the healthiest choice because refining removes the bulk of nutrients," says Natalia Rusin, R.D., a culinary nutritionist who works at the New York City restaurant Rouge Tomate. "It loses most of the fiber and many vitamins and minerals." So-called "white pasta" does have seven grams of protein per serving and 42 grams of easily digestible carbs. Jackie Dikos, R.D., a nutritionist and runner who competed in the 2008 Women's Olympic Marathon Trials, suggests runners eat white pasta the night before a race if stomach problems are a concern.
PERFECT PAIRING: Try Rusin's favorite simple tomato sauce: "Squeeze the seeds out of roma tomatoes. Blend the tomatoes with garlic, red pepper flakes, olive oil, and a bit of sugar and salt until smooth; simmer for half an hour."
WHAT'S IN IT: One hundred percent whole-wheat pasta has way more fiber than white (about seven grams per serving compared to just two grams in white) and about two more grams of protein. But whole-wheat pasta also has a denser, chewier texture. "A lot of people try it once and don't like it," says Newgent. "But different brands have different textures. You may just need to try another." Whole-wheat pasta is a good choice for runners trying to lose weight; while both white and whole-wheat varieties have about 200 calories per two-ounce serving of uncooked pasta, "the fiber in whole-wheat helps keep you feeling full," says Dikos.
PERFECT PAIRING: "Whole-wheat pasta has a nutty flavor," says Newgent, "so serve it with a rich, nutty sauce—like pesto." Rusin uses Greek yogurt in her pesto. "It adds protein and a creamy flavor and then you need less olive oil," she says.
WHAT'S IN IT: Multigrain pastas aren't usually 100 percent whole-grain, but instead are often mixed with refined grains. "You get some whole-grain benefit," says Dikos, "but the white flour gives the pasta a lighter flavor." Multigrain pastas can introduce you to less common grains. "Kamut, a relative of wheat, is great in pasta and it's a nutritional powerhouse," says Dikos. "It has a similar amount of carbs as white pasta, but has 10 grams of protein per serving—more than any other wheat—and provides a little more zinc, magnesium, and vitamin E."
PERFECT PAIRING: Rusin makes sauce from roasted vegetables, "which add a really deep flavor," she says. Season chopped tomatoes, carrots, onion, and garlic with salt, red pepper, and olive oil. Spread in a pan and roast for an hour at 375 degree, then puree in a blender.
WHAT'S IN IT: Nongrain ingredients—such as lentils, chickpeas, egg whites, and even flaxseeds—are usually mixed with a multigrain flour and help boost the pasta's fiber and protein content. Barilla Plus, for example, has four grams of fiber and 10 grams of protein. "These ingredients also typically give the pasta a lower glycemic index," says Rusin, "which helps keep your blood sugar at a steady level." Dikos particularly likes pasta fortified with flaxseeds. "A lot of people don't eat enough fish," she says, "so this is a good way to get omega-3 fatty acids into your diet."
PERFECT PAIRING: Add small shapes, like elbow macaroni, to soup. For long pasta (like fettuccine), saute shredded carrot, cabbage, onion, and garlic in olive oil. Cook the pasta until almost done, then add to the vegetables, along with some pasta water. Cover, and finish cooking.
WHAT'S IN IT: Pasta made with non-wheat grains, such as corn and brown or white rice, are usually gluten-free. That's good news for those sensitive to the wheat protein, which (for a small number of people) causes serious digestive-health issues. These grains can add new flavors and textures to your diet. And corn and rice pastas generally have more carbs (about 43 to 46 grams) and less protein (three or four grams) than traditional pasta."If you want the big carbo-load, they're a good choice," says Newgent.
PERFECT PAIRING: "Make a coconut milk curry to go with rice noodles," says Rusin. "Corn pasta is sweeter and is great in Mexican-style lasagna made with cumin-seasoned ground turkey, diced bell pepper, and a spicy tomato sauce."
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The Archbishop of Warsaw and Primate of the Church of Poland, Cardinal Josef Glemp, refuted the idea that the beatification of Pope John Paul II could take place in June 2006 during the eventual visit of Benedict XVI to the native country of the Servant of God.
"I don't believe it can be celebrated in June, during Pope Benedict XVI's trip to Poland," the cardinal said, in declarations to the Italian Catholic radio.
Cardinal Glemp remarked that the process of the Beatification of Karol Wojtyla, who died on April 2 at the age of 84, would be necessarily longer, with "the examination of the numerous testimonies," therefore more time was required"
Benedict XVI aproved the opening of the process for beatification, the first step toward an eventual canonization,without waiting the minimum term of five years from the death of the one the Church wishes to elevate to sainthood.
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Steve Chiotakis: United Airlines is in the midst of negotiations with many of its labor unions. It'll meet today with the union representing its mechanics. It's re-negotiating contracts that were agreed to during its bankruptcy three years ago. The latest now, from Marketplace's Jeremy Hobson.
Jeremy Hobson: Last year, it was astronomical fuel prices dogging the airline industry. Now it's a demand problem, and that hits the big carriers, like United, the hardest.
Seth Kaplan of Airline Weekly says both sides are in a difficult position as negotiations get underway:
Seth Kaplan: United's going to say look, fuel is falling, but demand is also really falling, and we don't know where things are going -- we don't have enough visibility to know that we're going to have the revenue to be able to give you the kinds of compensation that you want.
United slashed employee pay and benefits during reorganization. And Kaplan says workers are through making sacrifices for the good of the company. Even if there's a promise of rewards in the future.
Kaplan: United just can't do that kind of thing. Employees are going to look to take whatever they can get right now, because they just don't trust that management later is going to take care of them.
Still, Kaplan says a strike is unlikely. And given the current job market, workers may have to endure another delay.
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This wager returned $26.40, with Silver Prince finishing third.
No return on today's wager. Bedroom Eyes made a good move around the turn, but ultimately missed the money, finishing 4th.
Thanks for commenting! I checked out Haskin's article. The documentary sounds like an interesting watch.
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#2 Distant Image finished second, losing the lead late in the stretch to #1 Tebowing. My place wager returned $33.
Well, I went 3 for 5 on the All A&B ticket. Missed races 2 and 3. The second race was chaotic, nothing I can do about that. Just flat out whiffed on the third race. I intend to stab at the Pick 5 on Fridays with $20 or less going forward, so please check back if you're interested.
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FORESTVILLE – Mayor Linda Aures has decided not to seek re-election, after serving just one year as mayor and one year previously as a trustee.
Aures was elected last year over Beth Bowker, who had been deputy mayor. She had just one year as a village trustee when she ran for the unexpired term of Charles Brewster, who resigned as mayor when he moved outside the village. Brewster was later hired as superintendent of the village's Streets and Water Department.
Aures, who announced her decision Saturday, has a favorite for her successor.
"I would definitely put my support behind Kevin Johnson," who was elected trustee last year, said Aures. Johnson has been active on several committees for the Village Board. Aures noted her transition into the mayoral post was made difficult because she was unaware about key issues, including a $250,000 debt for the demolition of a building on Route 39.
She said she was not a trustee at the time of emergency demolition, which was ordered by Chautauqua County and Town of Hanover officials after the building was declared unsafe.
Recently, Village Board members learned the entire amount on a five-year note for the demolition is due. Village Attorney Michael Sullivan advised the board its options are limited and he is seeking an extension on paying the debt.
"It looks like taxpayers will have to pay the remaining due with the next tax bill," said Aures, who noted the issue is currently being litigated between the building's owner and Chautauqua County.
The debt is roughly double the annual budget of the tiny village, which could result in a significant tax bill for residents.
"I am still hoping something could happen because I honestly did not know that this was something that had not been paid, at least in part," she said.
Candidates for mayor and two board seats will likely emerge from caucuses to be held soon: Democrats, at 7 p.m. Thursday and Republicans, 6 p.m. Jan. 28. There will be an election in March for the expiring terms of the mayor and trustees Dave Bishoff and Ron Lineman. All terms are for two years.
Aures said she still hopes that Forestville can shift its March elections to November to save money. She said the annual election costs the village about $600.
"I think November elections make sense, not only to save money, but because it seems more people are thinking about going to vote in November," she said.


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D was a different partition on the old hard drive, and I formatted the C drive and installed the system image on that. However, the D partition I didn't format so that was also restored, but it wasn't part of the system image which was restored to the new C drive.
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When the imaging is done and you boot it, w7 will name it to C.
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Leroy H. Wulfmeier III Awarded AV Preeminent Rating by Martindale-Hubbell
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TROY, Mich., Aug. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Giarmarco, Mullins & Horton, P.C. is pleased to announce that Leroy H. Wulfmeier III has been awarded an AV Preeminent Rating by Martindale-Hubbell. The Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Ratings™ are an objective indicator of a lawyer's high ethical standards and professional ability, generated from evaluations of lawyers by other members of the bar and the judiciary in the United States and Canada. He is also recognized as a Michigan Super Lawyer, dbusiness Top Lawyer, and U.S. News Best Lawyer.
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FIVE men have been killed after a lifeboat fell from a Brit-operated cruise ship.
Thomson Cruises said the dead were crew members of the vessel, which had 1,400 passengers on board at the time.
Another three crewmen were injured in the incident in the Canaries port of Santa Cruz on La Palma.
A Thomson spokesman said: "We can confirm there was an incident involving the ship's crew during a safety drill on board Thomson Majesty in La Palma."
Three of the men who died were from Indonesia, one from the Philippines and one from Ghana.
Investigators are trying to determine what caused the lifeboat to plummet into the water before capsizing.
The ship had been due to sail to Funchal on Madeira.
The Thomson Cruises spokesman added: "We are working closely with the ship owners and managers, Louis Cruises, to determine exactly what happened."
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Plengkung is known as one of the best surfing beaches in the world. The word of "G" in "G-Land" derives from Grajagan, the name of the bay where the huge waves were found at the south of the Banyuwangi. It is surrounded by virgin tropical land forest. G land offers the worlds most demanding surfing sport, and recommended for professional surfers only. May to October is the best time for surfing. No doubt it is a world of surfer paradise. Most surfers start from Bali, take an overland to Banyuwangi and directly to National Park of Alas Purwo, G-Land or cross the Grajagan Bay to Plengkung beach where the waves challenge invite the surfers. However it is not recommended for novices.There are some simple cottages and a jungle camp available by the beach.
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Plengkung is located on the south coast of Banyuwngi the eastest of Fast Java. The visitor can visit Plengkung overland. To reach Plengkung can be taken in two ways:
Plengkung is located on the south coast of Banyuwngi the eastest of Fast Java. The visitor can visit Plengkung overland. To reach Plengkung can be taken in two ways:
* Overland. Banyuwangi-Kalipahit (59km)by bus Kalipahit Pasaranyar (3km) by ojek or rent a car, Pasaranyar-Trianggulasi (12km), Trianggulasi-Pancur-Plengkung/G-Land.
* Overland-sea : Banyuwangi-Benculuk (35km) by bus, Benculuk Grajagan (18km) by bus or public transportation, Grajagan-Plengkung by speedboat,
* Overland-sea : Banyuwangi-Benculuk (35km) by bus, Benculuk Grajagan (18km) by bus or public transportation, Grajagan-Plengkung by speedboat,
Both ways to Plengkung are OK, if the visitors choose the second way, they can spend the night at Grajagan and enjoy the view before continue the journey to Plengkung.Green Landscape in
G-Land of Forest Purwo Conservatory
Banyuwangi is located at coordinates 7.43 ° – 8.46 ° latitude and 113.53 ° – 114.38 ° East
G-Land Surf Point
G-Land is world renown, and has been in numerous surf videos and even host to a few star world professional events, bring the worlds best together to compete in the recently voted third best surf destination in the world. The two mile long left hand reef is divided up into four main sections; Kongs, Money Trees, Launch Pads, Speedies or 20/20′s which each section have own characteristic. From March to November many strong swells around Indian Ocean toward G-Land that makes these surf spot very consistent. You need to bring a right size of surf board and find the right part of the reef you are going to surf.Kongs is the first break way up the point and very rarely drops below three feet (most of time is 12 feet and more) a slower mellower break compared to what waits down the line, Kong's produces long workable walls, that yes can connect with the next section a couple of hundred yards down the three, Money Three's. (Surf board suggested in this section is 6'8″ – 7'2″ Gun).Money Trees is the most consistently surfed section of the reef. Famous for its fast workable walls and emerald green, almond shaped barrels. More protected by seasonal trades than Kong's. It sheer beauty winds down the reef for another couple of hudred yards before the real magic begins. (Surf board suggested is 6'8″ – 7'0″ Gun).Launch Pads is the name given for the take off point leading into Speedies, which could lead you into one of your longest barrels ever. Famous for its long spinning barrels, Speedies is G-Land, and if you score it on its day, you'll understand why. (Surf board suggested is 6'8″ – 7'2″ Gun).For the not so advancedBeyond what people is lead to believe, G-Land offers a lot more breaks than just the world famous main point, not as heavy, but just beautiful, and regularly empty. (Surf board suggested is 6'3″ – 6'5″).20/20′s: The Left is an amazingly great quality wave, just twenty minutes stroll down the picturesque empty white sand beach. Always smaller than the main break, it can throw out forgiving barrels and fun playful walls than wind down the 100 m long reef, before filling up in the deep channel The Right: not as long as its sister facing directly opposite, and generally needing a bit more swell, on the right swell it will throw out perfect horse shoeing barrels.Tiger Tracks: Another thirty minutes walk down the pristine deserted white sandy beach, will lead you too a natural footers dream. Empty Right Barrels. Picking up almost the same swell size as he main point and breaking over forgiving sponge reef, Tiger tracks can make your trip to G-Land one remember on its own, been a very good learning wave.


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About TJFL
Vision, volunteer, leadership and finances
The Teaneck Junior Football League is a 501 (c) 3 volunteer organization founded in 2001 for the purpose of teaching young people the fundamentals of football and cheerleading, and the importance of goal-setting, perseverance, and fair-play in overcoming life's obstacles. Each year, TJFL volunteers train and coach about 150 young men and women. The program provides uniforms, equipment, practice facilities, coaching, and mentorship.
TJFL is a member of North Jersey Pop Warner football league and operates as many as four football teams and cheerleading squads for different age groups. Our parent volunteers and experienced volunteer coaches are committed to teaching the proper fundamentals of football, sportsmanship and the value of teamwork and perseverance in a non-threatening environment at a reasonable price.
TJFL is a 501(c)3 charity. All registration fees, donations, and purchases are tax deductible. TJFL is also a non-profit corporation registered with the State of NJ.
We are committed to teaching the proper fundamentals of football, sportsmanship and the value of teamwork in a non-threatening environment at a reasonable price. The league is staffed by a cadre of volunteer coaches, some of them former professional players and long-time youth coaches who have many years of football coaching experience
President: Cedric B. James
Treasurer: Isaac Combs
Vice President: Det. Harold Clark
Athletic Director: Kerry Ware
Secretary: Janice Dorman
Ali Malik, Little Scholars Representative
Tamara Daniels, Coach Certification
Latisha Allen, Cheer Delegate
Shaneike Ayala, Cheer Delegate
Roberta Young, Fund Raising Chair
Ryan Lugo, Equipment Manager
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I've always been a hands-on and visual learner, preferring to process information by seeing and tactile practice. Even in grade school, I remember my teachers always complaining, "Are you listening to me?" (no.) "Did you hear what I just said?" (nope.)
In college, where the preferred method of teaching was mainly lectures, I'd write notes fast and furious (I created my very own shorthand and was good at deciphering my own chicken-scratch), often scribbling word-for-word what the professor was saying. Then, to study, I'd re-copy all of my notes 2 or 3 times by hand. Back then, laptops were silly-expensive and I relied on my Bic pen, spiral notebook and lots of bandages to cover blisters on the sides of my third finger.
[Oh, and by the way, both my boys are the same way – they learn by, "Show me, Mommy!" or "Lemmee try!"]
This is why I had never gotten into audio podcasts. It's just too much listening to people talk. Stuff that I hear goes in one ear and just falls right back out.
Recently, I finally learned how to connect my iPhone to my car's speakers via Bluetooth so that I could take phone calls through the car instead of holding onto a phone. I'm short, Asian, female and suck at driving. I really do need both hands on the wheel. The problem with calling through the car stereo is that the microphone in the car is somewhere NOT NEAR MY FACE. It's on the dashboard, behind the windshield wiper lever, near the air conditioning vent.
So if the other person I'm talking with has trouble hearing me (like all the time), I have to turn off the A/C or heater, lean forward and speak loudly, enunciating EACH. IN-DIVID-UAL SYL-LA-BLE. Which is even more distracting than if I had just held the damn phone in my hand.
I've tried the Bluetooth headset route, but it's just too staticky and the phone gets all confused about which Bluetooth device to connect to – the car? the headset? and I kept dropping the call.
I've resorted to plugging in my ear buds to the phone and only using one of the buds in my ear. I can hear much better, but since my ear bud doesn't have a microphone, I have to prop my phone up on my chest, using my boobs as a sticky shelf (pushup bras help with that) and propping the microphone close to my mouth. Awkward.
This post originally was supposed to be about podcasts. Somehow I've digressed and now you know I play with my boobs in the car. Double awkward.


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OULU, Finland, July 10 (UPI) -- A smartphone app using magnetic fluctuations to map indoor locations can guide users where global positioning systems can't penetrate, Finnish researchers say.
Developed by a company called IndoorAtlas, which was spun out of the University of Oulu in Finland, the app takes advantage of the digital compasses found in modern smartphones, NewScientist.com reported Monday.
Such compasses don't normally function inside buildings as metallic structural elements disturb the Earth's magnetic field, making it impossible to reliably find north.
The IndoorAtlas turns that problem to its advantage, developer Janne Haverinen said, by using these disturbances to create a unique map within each building.
Mapmakers can align a building's blueprint with a traditional map, then walk along designated paths while a smartphone charts the magnetic variations.
"In principle, a non-uniform ambient magnetic field produces different magnetic observations, depending on the path taken through it," Haverinen said.
"In IndoorAtlas' location technology, anomalies [fluctuations] of ambient magnetic fields are utilized in indoor positioning."
Once a map is created, visitors to the building can download it to their own phone and navigate through the indoor environment.
Unlike other proposed indoor navigation systems based on WiFi and Bluetooth, IndoorAtlas doesn't require any additional infrastructure, the developers said.


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"I'm loving the colour! I'm loving life! Let's talk beauty!" Those of an innocent nature might assume this to be the final line of a pre-Raphaelite poem, or the chorus of a 1960s folk song. Those of a more seasoned bent will identify this as your average exhortation from a TV presenter on the Oscars red carpet.
What had just happened? I think someone had spotted that Maggie Gyllenhaal was wearing a blue dress. Hey, I'm loving life! It was a funny old Oscars night. If the nominees seemed like an awkward balance between the small (The Hurt Locker, An Education, A Single Man) and the bloated (Avatar, Avatar, Avatar), then the red carpet was an enjoyable imbalance between the hysterical presenters and the decidedly blase celebrities.
"Were you FREAKING OUT all day?" the hyperbolic AP presenter asked Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner, looking as if she might need cardiac assistance soon. "Nah, I just had a sandwich," he shrugged. The AP woman tried again with Up in the Air's Vera Farmiga. "I'm zen," replied the fabulously cool Farmiga. Lenny Kravitz had spent the day eating takeaway chicken.
Poor AP woman. Where's Mariah Carey when you need her, right? The most telling disjunct was apparent long before the presenters had re-whitened their teeth and mic'd up. There were so many suggestions of behind the scenes scandals (Kathryn Bigelow versus her ex-husband James Cameron for best director being the big one, a fight that upset the media much more than it seemed to Bigelow and Cameron) that it didn't take an Avatar-sized imagination to wonder if all this media hoo-hah wasn't just a distraction from the ho-humness of the nominees.
But let's not be cynical and instead focus on the question of the night: would Mo'Nique shave her legs for the event? "Of course not," shrieked Mo'Nique, best supporting actress nominee and, more importantly in TabloidLand, razor phobe. "I haven't even shaved my arms!"
Inside the Kodak Theater it was down to Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin to get the party started, a pairing that began uncomfortably. And in the early minutes, stilted seemed to be a running theme. This being a British paper, one is obliged to focus on the British nominees. All countries do this to their own, of course. This weekend the Toronto Sun bemoaned the unlikelihood of any of the Canadian nominees wearing something that reflected their nationality to the ceremony. "Not that they should wear fitted Mountie or hockey uniforms," the paper conceded. Just "a small strategic maple leaf pin." Ah, Canada. Good to see that the Olympics haven't dented your inferiority complex a jot. And speaking of the Canadians, Cameron may have made himself a candidate for the stupidest comment of the night when he compared his nominations to his children. But which of your children is the best director nomination, James, and which is the best visual effects?
Anyway, to the obligatory Brits who were adorably normal. Carey Mulligan said her Prada dress let her get away without wearing Spanx; Helen Mirren, as beautiful as a Gainsborough portrait, compared the Oscars with Disney World's Magic Mountain (Magic Mountain is scarier.)
It's easy to bemoan the stupidity of the celebrity world but, actually, it's not the celebrities that have become dumber, it's the celebrity presenters. And for that, I blame the E! channel, the entertainment network that is presumably named after the product one needs to take in order to watch this channel without weeping for the future.
After you've watched presenter Ryan Seacrest talk to Mariah Carey about her diamonds, and then turn to High School Musical's Zac Efron to find out where his suit was from, you'll have a newfound empathy for the recently lobotomised.
As for the presenter on the AP network who said best actress nominee Gabourey Sidibe would "have to have her dress specially made" and how "hard it is for people like her", he will come back in his next life as a dung beetle. And for the record, Sidibe looked completely gorgeous in her blue dress. I'm loving the colour – let's talk beauty.


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I am looking for outbound VOIP SIP Trunk providers. The pricing plan of our current outbound SIP provider we are using when
calling within the USA is (any state in the US calling any other state in the US - excluding Hawaii):
3 cents/minute
30 second minimum call duration
6 second call increments
No monthly fee
Unlimited simultaneous lines
We are looking for more competitive outbound SIP Trunk providers. Please note: We are not looking merely for VOIP SIP phone line/extension service providers where we have to purchase X number of lines. Instead, we are looking for a SIP Trunk provider so that we pay a per minute cost and can have either 1, 10, 100, or any number of phone lines making simultaneous calls dependent on need.
What we are looking for (the ranges are below):
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* less than or equal to 6 second call increments
* No monthly fee or subscription fee
* Unlimited simultaneous lines (or an extremely high limit... "extremely high" being 1,000 or more)
Of course we would rather aim lower than higher for the first three of the five criteria listed above. The deliverables of this research project are to provide us with the contact details of a reputable outbound SIP Trunk provider that offers the lowest per-minute rate (within US) along with the lowest minimum call duration (per call) and lowest minimum call increments with no monthly fees/subscription fees and preferably unlimited simultaneous lines available.
The voice quality must also be good from the proposed service provider.
We may choose multiple winners for this Project. When you have found a SIP Trunk Provider that matches our requirements, please message me letting me know the criteria above for each service provider proposed. For example, if you found an outbound SIP Trunk service provider offering a 10 second minimum call duration, 6 second increment, 2.5 cent/minute rate, and unlimited simultaneous lines please email me with this data. If you have found more than one, please provide details associated with the additional service providers as well.
The pricing for this research project should be based on you being able to provide us with one qualified service provider. Upon being selected as a winner of the Project, payment associated with the research will be funded in escrow. You will then reveal the service provider's contact information (for the first service provider only, if you have several), and we will contact the service provider and test the voice quality. Upon passing the requirements, we will release escrow. If you have more than one potential service provider, we may fund escrow again for the same payment amount, and upon your releasing the information and us testing, we will release escrow.
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Meet the Faculty
Emmanuel Ajuzie, Ph.D.
Professor/State Marketing Specialist
Cooperative Extension and Research
Lincoln University
219 Allen Hall
Jefferson City MO 65101
Phone: (573) 681-5636
- Ph.D. and M.S. University of Connecticut
- M.S. Clemson University
- B.S. Austin Peay State University
Research Focus
- Economics and Marketing of Agriculture Products
- Macroeconomics issues and modeling
- Environmental and natural resources issues
Dr. Emmanuel I.S. Ajuzie has two bachelor's degrees, BS, in Economics and Urban Affairs from Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee. He has two master's (MS) degrees; one in Agricultural Economics with emphases in production and marketing from Clemson University, Clemson, SC and another in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics from University of Connecticut, CT. He obtained a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics also from University of Connecticut. He has worked in different institutions teaching and holding Cooperative Extension and Research positions. In his present capacity as Economist and State Marketing Specialist at Lincoln University Cooperative Extension and Research, he has been instrumental in creating innovative marketing programs and niches that have benefited not only the small farmers served by Lincoln University, but farmers across Missouri and beyond. Dr. Ajuzie teaches Economics and Agricultural Economics Courses at Lincoln University. He has authored and coauthored many articles in popular journals and presented papers at academic conferences. He has published a book, book chapters, and reviewed books and articles of other authors for publication. He is the recipient of many grants from USDA. One of his major undertaking presently is to develop another innovative marketing niche, which he refers to as the new generation growth cooperative (NGGC) with emphasis on perpetuity of the organizational structure. It is a process that will help small farmers keep family farms in families due to anticipated increases in productivity and profitability, promoting intergenerational property transfers.
Recent Publications
- Ajuzie, Emmanuel I.S., Adam Bouras, Felix M. Edoho, David Bouras, Aloyce Kaliba, Roberto Ike, and Abhirjun. "Efficiency and Optimal Firm Size: The Case of US Health Services Industry." American Journal of Health Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 75-86, Fall 2011.
- Uwakonye, Matthew Nga, Gbolahan S. Osho, and Emmanuel I.S. Ajuzie. "The Economic Impact of Water Resource: Broken Bow Lake Mccurtain County in Southern Oklahoma." Journal of Business and Economic Research, April 2010.
- Ajuzie, Emmanuel I.S. and Roberto Ike. "Oil Speculation: The Impact on Prices, Inflation, Interest Rates and the Economy." Journal of Business and Economics Research, October 2009
- Ajuzie Emmanuel I.S., Matthew Uwankonye, Felix Edoho, Ghebra Keleta, and Wensheng Kang. "Import Response and Inflationary Pressures in the New Economy: The Quantity Theory of Money Revisited." Journal of Business and Economics Research, pp. 125-140, May 2008.


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The vigilante justice meted out in a San Quentin prison yard was meant to avenge a young girl's death, the killer said in court on Wednesday.
Frank Souza, 33, was already serving a lifetime prison term for murdering a homeless man when he stabbed Edward Schaefer to death in the summer of 2010 with a "makeshift metal spear," according to the Marin Independent Journal.
Schaefer had been in prison for less than two weeks, the beginning of a term he was sentenced to serve for killing 9-year old Melody Osheroff in a Novato crosswalk while drunk on his motorcycle, the newspaper reported.
Souza pleaded guilty to murder in order to avoid the death penalty. Souza, a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, will now serve a life sentence without possibility of parole, the newspaper reported.
In reading a statement in court on Wednesday, Souza said "the innocence of a child will be defended at all costs," the newspaper reported.
No one from the families of either Souza's victim, Schaefer, or Osheroff's family attended the courtroom to hear Souza speak.


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British Columbia's Civil Forfeiture Office has abandoned a case in which a man faced the prospect of losing his home due to a warrantless search – the second high-profile case the government agency has dropped in as many months amid concerns about how the evidence was obtained.
The office, which has faced questions of fairness and transparency after a recent Globe and Mail investigation, has filed a notice of discontinuance in its case against Robert Murray – though it would not say if it would stop pursuing altogether cases involving potential Charter breaches.
In April, the office abandoned the case of David Lloydsmith. A judge had earlier ruled a warrantless police search of Mr. Lloydsmith's home that turned up marijuana plants was in violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Charges were never laid against him, but the Civil Forfeiture Office pursued Mr. Lloydsmith's modest residence for years, taking the matter all the way to the province's highest court before suddenly throwing in the towel.
Mr. Murray's case raised similar concerns. He planned to argue that a February, 2012 police search of his property that yielded 72 marijuana plants violated his Charter rights because it was conducted without a warrant. He, too, had not been charged.
Mr. Murray, in an interview, said he felt vindicated. "The only thing I'm guilty of is smoking weed," he said.
The office did not give a reason for abandoning the case. It acknowledged such instances are rare – only three notices of discontinuance were filed during the eight-month period from August, 2013 to March, 2014.
Mr. Murray's home, near the southeastern B.C. community of Nelson, wasn't the only property seized after the police search.
The Globe previously spoke with Bill Pundick, a pensioner who had been living in a separate cabin on Mr. Murray's property. Mr. Pundick's decades-old currency collection, worth $9,251, was seized before a judge ordered that it be returned, saying it was clear the money had been lawfully obtained.
Mr. Murray's property went into foreclosure after the search and was sold at auction in early April. He said he will get to keep the proceeds, but estimated that he lost between $50,000 and $75,000 on the property.
He said news that the Civil Forfeiture Office was abandoning the case came out of the blue.
He had thought a February decision from the Court of Appeal in Mr. Lloydsmith's case would bode well for him. The ruling from the province's highest court meant the Charter violations in Mr. Lloydsmith's case would have to be dealt with before a full trial. The appeal court also cited the power imbalance in the civil-forfeiture system between the government agency and defendants.
But despite the appeal-court decision, Mr. Murray said the office wouldn't budge on his case in the immediate aftermath of the ruling. He said he was told it still wanted him to pay $20,000. Then $15,000, then $10,000, and then nothing.
He said he was not given an explanation for why the case was dropped, though he said the attention it received likely helped.
Mr. Murray, like Mr. Lloydsmith, described going through the civil-forfeiture process as traumatic.
"The amount of anxiety was overwhelming. I cannot explain to you what the year 2012 was like. It destroyed me. It put me into a huge depression," he said. "Even thinking back to it, I'm like, 'Holy Christ.' I remember those feelings. It was intense."
Mr. Murray said he almost feels lucky when compared with other defendants in civil-forfeiture cases. While he lost a significant sum of money, he didn't lose everything, as others have, he said.
The Civil Forfeiture Office put out a written statement but did not explain why it dropped the case. It said all files are evaluated on an ongoing basis.
When asked if the office would stop taking on cases that involved potential Charter breaches, a spokeswoman wrote that the courts will continue to provide guidance on how the Civil Forfeiture Act should be interpreted and what constitutes the "interests of justice."
The office's director must assess four factors before taking on a case: the interests of justice, strength and adequacy of evidence, fiscal considerations, and public interest.
The Globe's investigation found the office, which was created in 2006 to fight organized crime, has come to have a far broader reach. The office does not need a conviction or even charges to pursue a file, and B.C. has been far more aggressive in seizing property than other provinces.
The office's director last year told The Globe that 99 per cent of the people the office targets settle on terms in its favour.
B.C. Justice Minister Suzanne Anton has repeatedly defended the civil-forfeiture program, saying it is working as it should. There have been calls from three B.C. Liberal caucus members, the Official Opposition, and both a former solicitor-general and a former attorney-general for a review.
Critics have said the penalties handed out in civil-forfeiture cases can be wildly disproportionate to the alleged offence and that the program is a cash cow.
Jay Solomon, a Vancouver lawyer who has worked on several civil-forfeiture cases, was skeptical the office would stop taking files involving potential Charter violations. In fact, he said he spoke with another lawyer earlier this week who just agreed to defend a property owner in a similar case.
"I really doubt that they still get it," he said in an interview. "They still don't get the fact that the public does not want Civil Forfeiture to be coming after properties where the marijuana was discovered as a result of violations of Charter rights. The public doesn't want the Civil Forfeiture Act to be used in that way, I'm convinced of that."


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Well I guess that whole "new tone" bullsht that Democrats preached last year after the Gabby Giffords shooting lasted less than 24 hours. On the heals of Obama's Green Jobs Czar Van Jones declared that Supreme Court Justice Scalia wanted people to die, Joe Biden, the dumbest Vice President in American history has thrown more gas on the fire. Joe Biden made the ridiculous claims that the Republicans want firefighters and police to die. If there's anyone who's calling for police to die, it's Obama's and the Democrats Occupy Wall Street nutbags. But facts are a tough thing for a radical leftist. Even one as dumb as Joe Biden.
Biden said it's a question of public safety, but also of first responder safety.
"There's one thing we know: the more cops on the street, the fewer cops get killed. The more firefighters responding to a fire, the fewer injuries to the firefighters, because you have each other's backs," Biden said.


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English Pages, 19. 5. 2006
1. Many thanks to President Parvanov for so efficiently organizing this meeting in this beautiful place. I was looking forward to it and I am really glad to be here with all of you and to meet many old friends and colleagues.
2. I consider this annual gathering to be an important opportunity for exchanging views about ourselves, about our bilateral relations, about Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, about the developments in the EU and in the whole European continent.
3. I would like to start with the – I hope – reasonable assumption that we have many common interests and similar goals, that we came here to talk about them and to discuss ways how to make them the reality.
4. I am convinced we are interested in
- peaceful and friendly relations among our countries;
- political and economic stability in our region;
- healthy and harmonic economic developments in all countries in the region;
- good relations with the countries close to our region – Russia, Turkey, Caucasus, Mediterranean, Cyprus, Middle East, North Africa – because some of them are rather problematic.
5. We are interested in the solution of various problems of our region inherited from the past and connected with the dissolution of some old federations (or unions) – I have in mind the real integration of Transdnestria into Moldova, the fate of Kosovo, the future of Serbia and Montenegro, the creation of a viable and coherent state in Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc.
6. We – all of us – are interested in the stability and democracy in the European Union because we are aware of the benefits connected with the successful continuation of the European integration process. This, undoubtedly positive process must not be hindered by wrong and misplaced ambitions aiming at European unification, at the centralization of the European continent, at colorless uniformity, at the unnecessary and unproductive elimination of all kinds of differences and specifics with the belief in "one-size fits all" concept.
I am sorry to say that I see such tendencies appearing in Europe these days and that I do not consider them to be positive. President Mesić in his speech here mentioned "a larger suit that would fit all". To use the same analogy, I would prefer to have a less restrictive suit which would not force us to change so many parameters of our bodies.
7. I believe we are interested in the openness of the EU, in the continuation of EU enlargement, in having many of you as members of the EU soon. We should resist the closing of the EU which is "in the air".
8. It is, therefore, important that this group of politicians meets once a year in this composition: heads of EU member-states together with the heads of the states which aspire to join the EU. I consider their aspirations as justified. I look forward to our today's discussions because I believe that – to use the words of President Voronin – there are many spiritual bonds among us.
Václav Klaus, Varna, Bulgaria, 19 May 2006
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