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Be sure to visit Advertiser Normandy Park Market's Easter Egg Hunt Saturday
Be sure and stop by Advertiser Normandy Park Market's Easter Egg Hunt this Saturday, April 19, starting at 10 a.m.
Normandy Park Market, located at Normandy Park Towne Center, is the newest full-size, full-service grocery in the greater Normandy Park, Des Moines and Burien area.
"It's going to be a lot of fun for everyone," said Paul Wilcox, owner and operator of Normandy Park Market. "Bring the whole family!"
"Our goal is to provide the community of Normandy Park and surrounding areas with a market that offers traditional elements of grocery shopping, additional efforts on new dynamic product selection, strong relationships with local fresh and organic suppliers and, most importantly, maintaining an affordable pricing structure to meet the needs of our everyday shopper," Wilcox said.
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Normandy Park, WA
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Developer Reading List, December 03, 2013 Ruby, Python, ASP.NET, Android development, PDF, and more.
Developing with PDF
by Leonard Rosenthol
Despite the eBook revolution, PDF remains the premier format for both documents and, in fact, eBooks due to its ability to maintain formatting accurately regardless of device or form factor. There are only a handful of libraries for creating PDFs and of those, few of them (with the notable exception of iText) are complete. This in part because writing PDFs with all the various extensions supported is delicate work. The various PDF readers tend to be finicky and they frequently have features that require special workarounds due to historical problems whose nature cannot be captured in normative documents such as standards. The latter aspect might seem surprising given that the ISO standard for PDF documents is a massive tome. But in part, that is the problem. There is so much information that it's almost impossible to implement it all; so the trick is to know what must be implemented and what can be left behind.
Rosenthol's new book is certainly the best available guide to PDF features, document structure, and the history that underlies them. Rosenthol is an Adobe employee who specializes in representing the company at PDF-standards meetings. He has long been a presence on PDF mailing lists and forums, answering questions about the document and explaining esoteric details. In this book, he presents all the basics that you might want to know about how to create PDFs and how to extract content (the latter within the tight constraints the format imposes). While there are other books that cover the PDF format, only Rosenthol is able to explain history when needed and point to subtleties that might not be obvious (because many of them buried in extensions and addenda to the ISO standard).
Beyond the inside knowledge the author shares, this book is one of the cleanest, best-written exposiitions of an important standard available in any endeavor. Despite its brevity, it covers advanced topics such as PDF forms, multimedia, and embedded files. If you're going to be working with PDF files, this book is the definitive place to start. It's certainly a much better option that starting with the ISO document.

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E-Prescribing is a prescriber's ability to electronically send an accurate, error-free and understandable prescription directly to a pharmacy from the point-of-care - is an important element in improving the quality of patient care. The inclusion of electronic prescribing in the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003 gave momentum to the movement, and the July 2006 Institute of Medicine report on the role of e-prescribing in reducing medication errors received widespread publicity, helping to build awareness of e-prescribing's role in enhancing patient safety. Adopting the standards to facilitate e-prescribing is one of the key action items in the governments plan to expedite the adoption of electronic medical records and build a national electronic health information infrastructure in the United States.
The MMA created a new voluntary prescription drug benefit under Medicare Part D. Although e-prescribing will be optional for physicians and pharmacies, Medicare Part D will require drug plans participating in the new prescription benefit to support electronic prescribing.
Standards Timeline
• On November 7, 2005, CMS published the first set of adopted standards known as the foundation standards. The foundation standards became effective on January 1, 2006. These standards apply to all electronic prescribing done under Part D of the MMA.
• MMA required CMS to implement pilot projects to test additional standards. These additional standards were pilot tested in 2006.
• On June 23, 2006 CMS published an interim final rule with comment to adopt NCPDP SCRIPT Standard version 8.1 on a voluntary basis to be used for e-prescribing.
• The results of the pilot test were announced in a report to Congress in April 2007 and were the basis for an NPRM proposing additional standards that was published on November 16, 2007.
• The final e-prescribing rule was published at the Federal Register on April 7, 2008. In this final rule CMS adopted 3 additional standards for use in e-prescribing under part D.
• On January 2009 CMS published a final rule, In this reg the Medicare Part D e-Prescribing foundation standards were updated to include:
o The National Council for Prescription Drug Programs Telecommunication Standard Specification, Version D, Release 0 for eligibility queries between dispensers and Part D sponsors.
o The Accredited Standards Committee X12N 270/271-Health Care Eligibility Benefit Inquiry and Response, Version 5010; For eligibility and benefits queries and responses between prescribers and Part D sponsors.
• On November 18, 2008 CMS Published the 2009 Physician Fee Schedule Payment Final Rule. In that payment reg CMS lifted the exemption to the Computer Generated Fax (CGF) exemption. CMS listed a date of January 1, 2012 for the elimination of the CGF exemption.
• On July 01, 2010 CMS published an interim final rule with comment to adopt NCPDP SCRIPT Standard version 10.6 on a voluntary basis to be used for e-prescribing.
• 2013 the PFS final rule adopted the Script Version 10.6 standard effective (10/1/13)
o Retires Version 8.1
o Lifted the Long Term Care Exemption effective(10/1/14)
• 2014 the PFS final rule adopted a newer version of the NCPDP Formulary and Benefits 3.0 transaction effective 2/28/15 and it also retires NCPDP Formulary and Benefits version 1.0 on 3/1/15.
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Every time I drive to the north end of Okaloosa County, I think of a family I interviewed years ago who had moved to the country so their children could grow up playing outside.
Every time I drive to the north end of Okaloosa County, I think of a family I interviewed years ago who had moved to the country so their children could grow up playing outside.
They bought a large parcel of land just outside Laurel Hill and set to work taming it.
Instead, it tamed them. They moved their young children back to town after a few too many encounters with venomous snakes.
I loved what they did, while fully acknowledging that the pioneer lifestyle is not really my bag of shells.
I worry about my kids playing outside in a quiet cul-de-sac; I�d have to stand sentry over them in a more rural setting. And I could never live that far from a Target.
But the northern end of Okaloosa, Walton and Santa Rosa counties are filled with folks who prefer wide open spaces and lots of nature to sterile playgrounds and crowded stores.
And whenever I go to one of those areas, I�m charmed all over again by the notion of having lots of land and very few neighbors.
I�m also struck by the difference between the southern and northern halves of our counties.
In just over 50 miles, you go from tiny scrub trees, blindingly white sand and pale blue water to thick woods, hills and tannin-stained ponds and creeks.
In the south end, one beachfront condominium might include hundreds of units. In the north end, you can drive for long minutes between houses.
A tiny convenience store in the north end becomes a beacon for folks needing everything from Tylenol to beer and bread.
Down here, in the space of a few miles, you�ll find dozens of stores selling everything from groceries and drugs to shoes, clothing, sporting goods and T-shirts.
In a perfect world, I would have a home in both places.
My home up north would have a screened in porch so I could enjoy nature without its many inconveniences like stinging insects, venomous snakes and other pesky critters.
My home down here would, of course, be on the Gulf of Mexico, where I would live a large-scale existence completely above my pay grade.
In the real world, I am suspended between the two, within driving distance of both.
I live in a neighborhood where the closest water is someone else�s swimming pool, but where there are stores less than 10 minutes from my home.
If you haven�t seen anything but your own neighborhood lately, it�s time to take a ride. Head north, head south and roll down your windows.
Make that one of your Christmas gifts to yourself.
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Great comment from a reader on what life is really like when you do your own startup:
I'll tell you what it's really like to do a startup. It is like self-inflicted solitary confinement plus hard labor plus torture -- worse than any prison. Girls who say they'll marry you abandon you when things turn south and their mom or dad starts complaining about why don't you have you have more money already, and breaks your heart to the level people kill themselves over.
Your social state is frozen at like age twenty since you hardly interact with people like a normal human being. You work so hard, you look up at yourself after a few months of pushing yourself to realize that you've gained like forty pounds. Get dumped again.
You try to save time like everywhere so you can work harder on your startup. Listen to interviews while driving. Read programming books and business strategy books while walking. Read SAI in the elevator. You clean your room or car once a twice a *year* to save time in batch mode. You lived in a ghetto apartment for similar reasons.
Sometimes you forget to brush your teeth, and then start thinking, "Do I really need teeth? Brushing them takes up a lot of time and no girl wants me anyways -- maybe I should let them fall out so I can work more". Showering is similar.
You start to smell like a dead animal sometimes but who cares, because you're on deadline to launch that dang feature and you might end up having just forfeited your twenties if you don't make it. You launch, and nobody comes to your launch party.
Get dumped again. Heart breaks.
Get a cease and desist letter because somebody didn't like your outdoor marketing effort like where you were standing outside passing out flyers in melting heat, sweating so much your pants are soaked and some snobby kid asks if you peed your pants and nearly passing out of heat stroke.
Your Aunt kind of condescendingly starts asking you where your money is, and says at each Christmas that girls won't like you unless you have more money. You realize you're risking never being able to get married as a result of your startup effort.
You launch again a year or two later and again nobody shows up to your launch party -- again. Start wondering what you're doing with your life.
You've gained forty pounds again and your skin rips with stretch marks but you don't notice it or care much because you're on deadline again. Start to get headaches and figure you better focus some more on losing weight or you might stroke out and die.
And then finally...finally...after many years and at like the eleventh hour...you maybe get scalable traction...but you're still not done. The above is like a true story -- not sure if I got all the ordering right, though. I'm saying this like The Little Red Hen so people and tax policy makers like Obama will hopefully have some better appreciation for the actual sacrifices involved in building a startup, and not act like it's just some dumb-luck windfall that they're entitled to.


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• Beverly D.: Royal Ascot Winner Duntle Could Be Daunting
• Secretariat: Jack Milton and Java's War Poised and Proven
• American St. Leger: Twilight Eclipse Could Blot Out Euros
Now that all the major prep races have been completed, there is an exciting buzz about who could be coming this year to the most prestigious turf event in America aside from the Breeders' Cup.
Some new hats have been thrown into the ring in the last week, including that of globetrotter Side Glance, recent Argentinian import (to California) Indy Point and the improving Guest of Honour.
Side Glance is a winner of seven of 27 lifetime and in excess of $1 million in earnings. Last out, the Pearl Bloodstock-owned son of Passing Glance was seventh of 11 in one of the classiest international races of 2013, June's Group I Prince of Wales's Stakes at the Royal Ascot meeting. Previous to that, the Andrew Balding-trained gelding was a good fourth to Animal Kingdom in the Dubai World Cup. A multiple Group stakes winner, Side Glance's best Group I performance was a third in the 2012 Queen Anne Stakes behind the incomparable Frankel.
The most interesting new addition to the list of probables is Indy Point, a winner of three Argentinian Group I races who made his American debut a winning one in the restricted Wickerr Stakes – a race that has been won by Grade I winners Colonel John, Bertrando, Special Ring, Touch of the Blues, Becrux, Slew of Damascus and last year by Suggestive Boy. A son of Arlington Classic runner-up Indygo Shiner, GusMay-Fer's Indy Point is trained by the highly able hands of Richard Mandella, a conditioner with an enviable record of 8-1-3-2 in the Arlington Million. In 2012, Indy Point won two-thirds of the Argentinian Triple Crown, including a victory in the Group I Gran Premio Jockey Club over a left-handed grassy 10 furlongs, in which he sped home in a zippy 1:58.25.
Guest of Honour earned his way to the Million with a fine third in the Group II Summer Mile Stakes – the same race in which Mull of Killough (confirmed for the Million) finished second. A son of Cape Cross – the same sire of world champions Sea the Stars and Ouija Board – Guest of Honour is trained by Marco Botti, who also plans to bring probable American St. Leger favorite Dandino. Owned by Giuliano Manfredini, the bay colt has never finished worse than fifth in his career and has not finished more than a length and a half behind in any of his four 2013 losses.
On the local front, a salty one-mile Arlington allowance race produced a solid return to the winner's circle for multiple graded stakes winner Nates Mineshaft. Given a vigorous hand ride by E. T. Baird for trainer Anne P. Smith and local owners Windy Hill Farm, the ridgeling not only proved he is approaching a return to the form that saw him placed in the upper echelon of American older horses in 2012, but he also displayed an affinity for a new surface. The allowance was only his second try on the grass and first attempt in three years. He has been stabled at Arlington since mid-May.
These four new shooters join a diverse group of horses from around the globe that may compete for the $1,000,000 purse on Aug. 17. Headlining those being aimed toward the race are defending champion and multiple Grade I winner Little Mike, Italian Group I winner Vedelago, UAE Group I winner Hunter's Light and South African Group I winner The Apache. Add to those the Group/Grade 1-placed Optimizer, Rahystrada, Real Solution, Grandeur, Asfare and Finnegan's Wake, as well as highly regarded Group/Grade winners Skyring and Mull of Killough, and you have a remarkable field developing for Arlington's marquee event. It is also worth noting that Grade I United Nations Stakes winner Big Blue Kitten is currently listed as possible, while dual Grade I winner Wigmore Hall is also on the fence as he is also being strongly considered for the American St. Leger in lieu of the Million on the same International Festival of Racing card.
The most exciting news for the Beverly D. Stakes is that Flaxman Stable's Duntle is being considered for a trans-Atlantic trip after her exemplary runner-up finish to the streaking Elusive Kate in this past weekend's Group I Prix Rothschild at Deauville Racecourse, according to the Internaitonal Racing Bureau. A daughter of Danehill Dancer, the long-striding chestnut filly won the Group I Matron Stakes last fall in the middle of a five-race winning streak that was ended when she ran into four-time Group I winner Elusive Kate. Trained by David Wachman, Duntle is owned by the Niarchos Family, who won the Breeders' Cup Mile with Domedriver when it was held at Arlington in 2002.
Duntle's best run this year was in the Group II Duke of Cambridge Stakes at the Royal Ascot meeting. In that race she defeated James Wigan's Dank, who is also under consideration for the Beverly D. Dank, trained by Sir Michael Stoute, is a two-time Group winner this year (in three starts) and came within three-quarters of a length of Duntle in their June meeting. The Duke of Cambridge, raced over a rigorous one-mile course, produced Joviality in 2012, who subsequently finished third in the Beverly D.
If the two European 'D's bring their rivalry over to the Beverly D., they will probably be greeted by Glen Hill Farm's 2012 Beverly D. runner-up Marketing Mix, highly regarded fellow Europeans Gifted Girl (England) and Sarkiyla (France), and North American graded winners Ausus, La Tia, Solid Appeal, Somali Lemonade and Starformer. On the fence at this time from Europe are Moment in Time from the barn of defending Beverly D.-winning trainer David Simcock, as well as the Andrew Balding-trained Stirring Ballad.
If you are looking for a horse on the verge of a breakout performance in the Secretariat Stakes, then your horse could be Jack Milton. Well regarded from day one by leading national trainer and 2009 Secretariat winner Todd Pletcher, Jack Milton has only had five starts – all in 2013 - and has never finished worse than third. By rising stallion star War Front, Jack Milton is owned by Gary Barber and won the Grade III Transylvania Stakes at Keeneland in only his third start in April. He followed that with a good third – beaten only three-quarters of a length – in the inaugural $500,000 Penn Mile behind Rydilluc, and then lost a heartbreaking three-horse photo last out in the Grade II Virginia Derby. After proving he can go the distance in the latter, he will be a very tough customer Aug. 17.
Grade I winner Java's War, who won the Grade I Blue Grass Stakes impressively before running poorly in both the Grade I Kentucky Derby and Grade II Swaps Stakes, brings proven class and turf prowess into the Secretariat for trainer Kenny McPeek. As a juvenile, the son of juvenile champion War Pass out of a daughter of English and French champion Rainbow Quest won the grassy Sunday Silence Stakes at a mile. As a sophomore, as he has spent most of the year running with the best of his generation on dirt – including a second to Verrazano in the Grade II Tampa Bay Derby in March to commence his season. The Secretariat would be a return to conditions many believe are much more to the Charles Fipke homebred's liking.
If Java's War and Jack Milton make their respective ways into the Secretariat starting gate, they may be greeted by a quartet of Europeans, including Group II UAE Derby winner Lines of Battle, UAE Derby runner-up Elleval, Irish Group II winner First Cornerstone and the well regarded French colt Visiyani from the same connections who took down last year's Secretariat with Bayrir – trainer Alain de Royer-Dupré and His Highness the Aga Khan. Among the fellow North Americans ready to possibly challenge them are the streaking Canadian speedster Five Iron, recent Grade III American Derby victor Infinite Magic and consummate bridesmaid Admiral's Kitten – second in three consecutive graded stakes photo finishes on the grass.
For an event in only its second year, the American St. Leger is shaping up to be a phenomenal competition with a true America vs. Europe feel to it. With the Europeans taking down the inaugural edition in 2012, they have not shied away from attempting to repeat that result this year, even going as far as producing a contender from the exact same connections – owners Australian Thoroughbred Bloodstock and trainer Marco Botti – in Dandino. Also under consideration for Europe is Khalid Khalifa al Nabooda's multiple Grade 1-winning international traveler Joshua Tree, as well as the favorably regarded duo of Mrs. Fitriani Hay's No Heretic and The Originals' Mister Impatience. The latter is very intriguing considering he is a 3-year-old who would be going a marathon distance in the St. Leger – something alien to American racing in modern times.
Despite American racing's lack of prowess for marathons, one would be doltish to count the Americans out this year – thanks to the powerful duo of Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey's Dark Cove and West Point Thoroughbreds' Twilight Eclipse. Dark Cove, who is also under consideration for the Million, should be greatly supported at the windows after three straight 12-furlong turf wins over three different tracks – all graded stakes – including the local prep, the Grade III Stars and Stripes Stakes.
Twilight Eclipse will pique a lot of bettors' interests, as well, considering his two breakout performances in his short 10-race career have come at his only attempts at grass marathons. Though not disgraced last out in a hard-trying second in the 11-furlong Grade I Man o' War Stakes, the Tom Albertrani-trained son of Purim is superior with more real estate. In December, as a sophomore, he defeated his elders in the Grade II W. L. McKnight Handicap at Calder Race Course and then came back four months and two starts later to win the Grade II Pan American Stakes in the same dominating fashion – this time by four lengths over 2012 American St. Leger runner-up Ioya Bigtime. Twilight Eclipse has the speed figures (including three times running a 113 or higher Equibase Speed Figure), class and upward momentum to be a major player if his connections enter him in the St. Leger.
Joining the powerful Europeans and aforementioned American duo could also possibly be two-time Grade I winner Wigmore Hall, Midwest Thoroughbreds' reigning Illinois Champion 3-Year-Old The Pizza Man, Shadwell Stable's multiple graded stakes-placed Najjaar and Team Block's multiple local stakes winner Suntracer. Wigmore Hall has done his best running in 12-furlong events, including twice taking the Grade I Northern Dancer Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack in Canada after competing in the International Festival of Racing. Now with a patient-then-menacing late-running style that seems to have developed with age, Mark Hawtin's Wigmore Hall may be a tough horse to beat at the St. Leger's conditions.


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Really simple file uploads with Express
HEADS UP! This article was written for an older version of node. More up-to-date information may be available elsewhere.
Few days ago I was working on a fairly typical web application and I faced the challenge of implementing a fairly typical web application feature - file uploads. It was the first time I was implementing file uploads with Node (and Express) and I did what anyone else would do - I googled it.
Unfortunately all the articles / posts out there are either outdated, too complex or plain wrong. So I did the next most obvious thing - post a question on the mailing list. As always Mr. Holowaychuk was incredibly quick to respond. His answer lead me to do what I should have done in the first place - read the docs.
The upload form
This is the most obvious part of the challenge. You're probably familiar with this already. Anyway, for the sake of completeness of this article, here it is.
You will need a form in your browser for the file upload. I use Jade to generate my HTML and here how it looks:
form(action="...", method="post", enctype="multipart/form-data")
input(type="file", name="displayImage")
The form.action will point to a route that handles the file upload. More below.
Accessing the uploaded file
If you're using recents versions of Node and Express, file uploads are a piece of cake. And I'll back this claim but before we go any further make sure you're familiar with routes, requests and responses in Express.
Okay, now let's justify the "piece of cake" claim. In our file upload route, the req parameter has req.files available. Here's an example of what the req.files would contain:
displayImage: {
size: 11885,
path: '/tmp/1574bb60b4f7e0211fd9ab48f932f3ab',
name: 'avatar.png',
type: 'image/png',
lastModifiedDate: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:31:09 GMT,
_writeStream: {
path: '/tmp/1574bb60b4f7e0211fd9ab48f932f3ab',
fd: 14,
writable: false,
flags: 'w',
encoding: 'binary',
mode: 438,
bytesWritten: 11885,
busy: false,
_queue: [],
drainable: true
length: [Getter],
filename: [Getter],
mime: [Getter]
In the req.files object above, the property displayImage is the name of the file field in your HTML form and req.files will contain one property each for every valid HTML file form field.
The file object contains the type, size and name properties for your server side validations.
Saving the uploaded file
Assuming the file is valid, you use the path property for the next step. The path would typically contain a location in the tmp folder. Your application logic could either require you to access the contents of the file or simply move the uploaded file to another location.
fs.readFile(req.files.displayImage.path, function (err, data) {
// ...
var newPath = __dirname + "/uploads/uploadedFileName";
fs.writeFile(newPath, data, function (err) {
In the fs.readFile callback, we have the data parameter through which we can access the contents of the file. The example above is taken from an application that needed to modify the file and save it in a new location. Thus fs.writeFile is used to write data to the newPath.
If your app needs to simply move the uploaded file without modifying the contents fs.rename can be used as more simpler option.
That's all there is to it. I've done file uploads in many server side languages including Python, Java, Scala and PHP and I don't think its ever been this simple. So much for JavaScript being labeled as an inferior server side language.
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A man suffered a gunshot wound at a San Bernardino apartment complex today.
San Bernardino police received a call at 7:55 a.m. regarding a bleeding man who walked out of an apartment, followed by a man with a gun, said police Sgt. Brett Birnbaum.
Police arrived and found the victim.
His wound is not expected to be life threatening.
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LITTLE ROCK, AR -- Former President Bill Clinton honored 43 schools for their anti-obesity efforts, including one school that banished candy from its building and another that offers a student fitness club.
In a ceremony held this morning at his presidential library in Little Rock, AR, Clinton recognized schools from a dozen states for their participation in the Healthy Schools Program, a joint initiative of the William J. Clinton Foundation and the American Heart Association.
"Despite the rising food prices and constrained budgets impacting programs nationally, these schools are using innovative approaches to curb the country's alarming rates of childhood obesity," Clinton said prior to the ceremony. "Schools around the country are stepping up and making progress."
The honored schools included Kenly Elementary School in Tampa, FL, which banished candy from its building, and New Jersey's Pine Hill Middle School, which offers a fitness club to students and where the staff does yoga twice a week.
The Healthy Schools Program, which began in 2006, now includes nearly 3,000 schools and more than 1.6 million students. The program provides in-person support to 1,364 schools, and program leaders hope to boost that number to 8,000 by 2010.


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Turning a New Page: An Interview with Allan Fisher
Tabletalk: How did God call you to the vocation of book editing and publishing? Allan Fisher: God called me to Christian publishing in a variety of ways, only a few of which I will mention here. Through an excellent fourth-grade …Read More
Catechisms for the Imagination
What are stories for? Ask an average group of young American narrative consumers this question and they most likely won't know what you mean. What you'll likely get are blank faces, shrugs. So, let's get more specific …Read More
What Stories Do
Almost overnight, my eight-year-old niece went from being a vivacious little girl who sang her way through life—as if she were singing the soundtrack of her own life the movie—and became a frightened, withdrawn child who spoke so softly you …Read More
Law, Grace and Redemption in Les Misérables
Victor Hugo's monumental novel Les Misérables, first published in 1862, has been compared to a gothic cathedral — and justly so. One comes away from the work with the alternating images of grotesque gargoyles and chipped, mildewed saints, cobwebbed shadows …Read More
Writing For God's Glory
Each of us was born with an imagination. Since creation, we have possessed the ability to form unseen images and original ideas in our minds — to visualize neverbefore seen characters and to craft intricately interwoven themes never experienced by …Read More
A Literate Ministry
Consider, if you will, how difficult (and sometimes annoying) it is when you encounter computergenerated voice menus when you make telephone calls. The emphasis is almost always on the wrong syllable, the monotonic and a-rhythmic cadence is unnatural, and one …Read More
The Chronicles of Narnia
The most important lessons that we can learn from C.S. Lewis' Narnian Chronicles are the ones that Lewis himself wanted us to learn. It so happens that Lewis said enough about literature in general and the Narnian books in particular …Read More
The Key to C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis was not only a Christian apologist and lay theologian. He was also an unusually imaginative and creative novelist. And in his day job at Oxford and then Cambridge he was an astonishingly perceptive and influential literary scholar …Read More


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Ombre nails are where it's at right now. We love this trend, and are excited that it's the focus of our newest video with Revlon. There are a few ways to approach the ombre nail. We've done the one color with white polish — and it can be messy for sure — or you can use five different shades in the same color family. Revlon sent us five shades of Revlon® Nail Enamel for the ombre look. Lightest to darkest from left to right we used:
- Pink Chiffon
- Posh Pink
- Fuchsia Fever
- Plum Seduction
- Impulsive
What do you think?
We're giving away a bottle of Revlon Nail Enamel to 10 Product Girl readers. To enter, leave a comment on this post! We'll pick winners on Wednesday, August 22.
For more ombre nails, click on over here to see the other Revlon bloggers in action.
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The Best Drinks We Drank in September
The best stuff we've sipped lately.
Wow, another month flew by! Quite a few of us on the Serious Eats team were on the road, so we had a chance to sample drinks around the country—and the world! New York editor Max drank a few vacation drinks in New Orleans, Chicago Editor Nick tried fancy coffee in Thailand, DC Contributor Brian Oh sampled cocktails in Japan, and back in NYC, our editors enjoyed Vermont cider and the last warm-weather rosé. Check out our favorite sips from September in the slideshow above.
How about you? Make a new cocktail this month? Visit a new bar? Try a new beer or wine that you loved? Tell us in the comments below!
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Drivetrain Rear Wheel Drive
Passenger Capacity 6
Passenger Doors 4
Body Style 4dr Car
Transmission 4-speed automatic transmission w/OD & OD lockout
EPA Classification Large
Weight Information
Base Curb Weight (lbs) 4101
Interior Dimensions
Passenger Volume (ft³) 109.8
Second Head Room (in) 37.7
Front Shoulder Room (in) 60.8
Second Hip Room (in) 58.7
Front Head Room (in) 39.5
Second Leg Room (in) 38.4
Passenger Capacity 6
Front Hip Room (in) 57.6
Front Leg Room (in) 41.6
Second Shoulder Room (in) 60.3
Exterior Dimensions
Length, Overall (in) 212.0
Min Ground Clearance (in) - TBD -
Track Width, Front (in) 63.4
Width, Max w/o mirrors (in) 77.3
Liftover Height (in) 26.6
Wheelbase (in) 114.7
Track Width, Rear (in) 65.6
Height, Overall (in) 58.3
Cargo Area Dimensions
Trunk Volume (ft³) 20.6
Fuel Economy
Fuel Tank
Fuel Tank Capacity, Approx (gal) 19.0
EPA Fuel Economy Est - Hwy (MPG) 25
EPA Fuel Economy Est - City (MPG) 18
Performance Specs
Engine Type Gas V8
SAE Net Horsepower @ RPM 224 @ 4800
Displacement 4.6L/281
Engine Order Code NA
SAE Net Torque @ RPM 275 @ 4000
Fuel System SEFI
Trans Order Code 44W
Second Gear Ratio (:1) 1.56
Reverse Ratio (:1) 2.32
Trans Description Cont. Again NA
Fifth Gear Ratio (:1) NA
Seventh Gear Ratio (:1) NA
Trans Type 4
Third Gear Ratio (:1) 1.00
Clutch Size (in) NA
Drivetrain Rear Wheel Drive
First Gear Ratio (:1) 2.84
Sixth Gear Ratio (:1) NA
Trans Description Cont. Automatic w/OD
Fourth Gear Ratio (:1) 0.70
Final Drive Axle Ratio (:1) 2.73
Brake ABS System 4-Wheel
Drum - Rear (Yes or ) NA
Front Brake Rotor Diam x Thickness (in) - TBD -
Disc - Front (Yes or ) Yes
Rear Drum Diam x Width (in) NA
Brake Type Pwr
Rear Brake Rotor Diam x Thickness (in) - TBD -
Disc - Rear (Yes or ) Yes
Steering Ratio (:1), Overall 16.4
Turning Diameter - Wall to Wall (ft) - TBD -
Lock to Lock Turns (Steering) - TBD -
Steering Type Speed-Sensitive Pwr
Turning Diameter - Curb to Curb (ft) 40.3
Rear Tire Order Code NA
Rear Tire Size P225/60R16
Spare Tire Order Code NA
Front Tire Order Code NA
Spare Tire Size P225/60R16
Front Tire Size P225/60R16
Rear Wheel Size (in) 16 x - TBD -
Rear Wheel Material Steel
Spare Wheel Size (in) - TBD -
Front Wheel Size (in) 16 x - TBD -
Spare Wheel Material Steel
Front Wheel Material Steel
Suspension Type - Rear Watts Linkage
Stabilizer Bar Diameter - Front (in) - TBD -
Shock Absorber Diameter - Front (mm) - TBD -
Suspension Type - Front (Cont.) w/Coil Springs
Stabilizer Bar Diameter - Rear (in) - TBD -
Suspension Type - Front Short/Long Arm
Shock Absorber Diameter - Rear (mm) - TBD -
Suspension Type - Rear (Cont.) w/Coil Springs
Safety Features
Air Bag-Frontal-Driver Yes
Air Bag-Frontal-Passenger Yes
Air Bag-Passenger Switch (On/Off) No
Air Bag-Side Body-Front No
Air Bag-Side Body-Rear No
Air Bag-Side Head-Front No
Air Bag-Side Head-Rear No
Brakes-ABS Yes
Child Safety Rear Door Locks Yes
Daytime Running Lights No
Traction Control No
Night Vision No
Rollover Protection Bars No
Fog Lamps No
Parking Aid No
Tire Pressure Monitor No
Back-Up Camera No
Stability Control No
Other Features Anti-lock braking system
Personal safety system-inc: driver & front passenger dual stage...
Front/rear outboard 3-point active seat belts w/front belt...
Rear door child safety locks
LATCH system (Lower Anchors & Tethers for CHildren) on rear...
Emergency inside trunk release
Brake shift interlock
Personal safety system-inc: driver & front passenger dual stage...
Front/rear outboard 3-point active seat belts w/front belt...
Rear door child safety locks
LATCH system (Lower Anchors & Tethers for CHildren) on rear...
Emergency inside trunk release
Brake shift interlock
Basic Miles/km 36,000
Basic Years 3
Corrosion Miles/km Unlimited
Corrosion Years 5
Drivetrain Miles/km 36,000
Drivetrain Years 3
Roadside Assistance Miles/km 36,000
Roadside Assistance Years 3
Other Specs
Cooling System
Total Cooling System Capacity (qts) - TBD -
Maximum Alternator Capacity (amps) 130
Cold Cranking Amps @ 0° F (Primary) - TBD -
Dead Weight Hitch - Max Tongue Wt. (lbs) 150
Wt Distributing Hitch - Max Trailer Wt. (lbs) NA
Dead Weight Hitch - Max Trailer Wt. (lbs) 1500
Wt Distributing Hitch - Max Tongue Wt. (lbs) NA
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March 13, 2006
The Bisons saw their winning streak snapped in an 8-6 loss to East Tennessee State on Friday, March 10. The game represented the beginning of conference play for the Bisons this season.
"It is always exciting when you open up conference weekend and ETSU was a very worthy opponent," head coach Wynn Fletcher said. "Their pitching did a good job keeping us off-balance today. I don't think we made enough adjustments early to counteract what [Ryan] Howe was trying to do."
Paul Piennette (1-2) got the start for the Bisons. In his last start at Florida A&M, Piennette pitched a five-hit complete game shut-out for the win. Piennette came into the game with an ERA of 7.04.
The Buccaneers used four hits, two singles and two doubles, to get to Piennette in the second, and take a 3-0 lead.
The Buccaneers added another run in the third on a sacrifice fly by C.J. Lee.
The Bisons got on the board in the bottom of the inning. Preston Embrey led off with a walk. Tadd Brewer followed with an infield single to third base. Two outs later, Zac Miller hit an RBI single to center field to bring the Bisons to within two.
The Bisons used three hits and two Buccaneers errors to take the lead in the seventh. With one out Embrey tripled to right center. Brewer reached on a fielder's choice to put runners on the corners. One out later, Nathan Sensing hit an infield single to third to bring Embrey to the plate. The next batter, Miller, hit a fly ball to left, which was dropped by the left fielder resulting in two Bisons runs. Caleb Joseph followed with an infield single to bring the score to 5-4.
The Buccaneers scored two runs on three hits in the eighth to retake the lead.
The Bisons tied the game at six in the bottom of the inning. Patrick O'Rourke led off with a single to right field and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Whit Reed. After O'Rourke stole third, Embrey popped out to catcher for the second out of the inning. Brewer followed with a double to left to bring O'Rourke to the plate.
Right-hander Josh Smith struck out the first two batters to begin the ninth. After allowing a two out walk to Justin Aughey, Chuck Hargis drilled a two run homer to dead center to give the Buccaneers an 8-6 lead, which would be the final.
"We got ourselves in a hole early," Fletcher said. "I was very proud of the way the guys fought their way back. The margin for error in conference play is small. You have to take advantage of opportunities and make the most of them. We had opportunities early and we didn't do a good job taking advantage of it. I am looking forward to another exciting game tomorrow."
The Bisons return to action tomorrow, Saturday, March 11 when they take on ETSU in the second game of the series at 2 p.m.


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Gold Earring for Women
Gold Earrings – Ideal Choice for Every Occasion and Age Gold is soothing that the teenagers of today shy from because they think that it is meant for old ladies only. Perhaps they have not seen the huge variety of exquisitely crafted delicate looking gold earrings for women that are available online. The wide range of designs available online cater to every age. Usually; the slightly older ladies prefer large sized ones whereas the young will want something small and delicate with diamonds or other stones. Then there is the dangling type which is available in narrow and broad designs to suit every taste.
Therefore before anyone says no; they should try online gold earring shopping at least once.
One also need not worry about the outfit because gold earrings complement the western as well as Indian dresses. The trick is in choosing the right designs. However, instead of breaking your heels by visiting several shops; just relax in your chair or sofa and enjoy the convenience of online gold earring shopping.
When you start to browse you will see that gold earrings are not always yellow as it is generally believed. All that glitters and all that is yellow is not gold because gold earrings for women are also made in white gold!
Hence, if you are worried that your white gown or your white sari will need only silver jewelry; think again. When you begin to buy gold earrings online you will be dazzled by the shine of white gold with or without diamonds and other stones. You can never go wrong with white gold studded with diamonds and then a matching bracelet is just the right style you want to make at an uptown savvy party.
One more fashion mistake that some ladies make is to wear faux gold. A discerning eye can make out very clearly the difference between real gold and just any yellow metal jewelry. The difference is seen in the way it lights up the faces of women.
There are also plenty of pieces that are yellow but have different colored precious or semi precious gems studded in it. There is a wider choice in these types when you buy gold earrings online. So if you have a dark colored dress with red or green embroidery or motifs, just go for those design that have rubies and emeralds studded in them. Of course, if these precious gems are beyond your budget then you can opt for those that have non-precious or semi precious stones.
Hence, keep a watch out for gold prices and grab the best design before they again rise. You can easily browse the designs based on price and also whether it is for casual wear that you need or for formal wear. Such categories make online shopping so much more fun and quick too.


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PB-22 5-hydroxyisoquinoline isomer
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This month, Mars is in the southwest at dusk this month. Mars continues to fade a little each night as Earth continues to leave it farther behind. Still, Mars rivals the brightest stars we see at night.
Saturn is also in the south southwest at dusk. Mars passes 3.4 degrees south of Saturn on August 25.
Venus remains in the morning sky, although it now begins to approach the Sun more and more. Look east at dawn for the brightest point of light there; only the Sun and Moon outshine Venus. Venus remains a morning star for almost all of 2014.
Jupiter emerges from behind the Sun into the morning sky by late August. Venus is about 1/5 of one degree from Jupiter at dawn on August 18th. (Both are low in the east at dawn).
The Big Dipper is left of the North Star, with its handle pointing up. From that handle, you can 'arc to Arcturus' and then 'speed on to Spica'; those stars are in the west at dusk. Leo, the Lion, is setting in the west at dusk.
Antares, brightest star of Scorpius, the Scorpion, is in the southeast, with the 'teapot' of Sagittarius behind it. The Summer Triangle is high in the east. The stars of summer are here. By late evening you can look for the Great Square of Pegasus rising in the east, indicating that fall is approaching.
Coming to an observatory near you, August 12: The annual Perseid meteor shower peaks next week, late Tuesday/early Wednesday (August 12-13). As usual, we see more meteors towards dawn because that's when we rotate into the meteor stream.
The George Observatory is open 7:00 p.m. August 12 until 2:00 a.m. August 12-13 for the shower.
Moon Phases in August 2014
1st Quarter: August 3, 7:50 p.m.
Full: August 10, 1:10 p.m.
Last Quarter: August 17, 7:26 a.m.
New: August 25, 9:12 a.m.
Click here to see the Burke Baker Planetarium Schedule.
On most clear Saturday nights at the George Observatory, you can hear me do live star tours on the observation deck with a green laser pointer. If you're there, listen for my announcement.
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O'Shaughnessy Estate Winery is a small, family-owned vineyard and winery on Howell Mountain in California's Napa Valley. Our quest to make two great Cabernet Sauvignon wines, is the driving force behind all of our growing and winemaking decisions. Because we are committed to excellence and believe outstanding Cabernet Sauvignon is made in the vineyard, we spent nearly seven years finding the perfect piece of land. The 100 acre estate consists of 37 planted acres. These acres have provided us with the red, rocky, well-drained soils and south facing slopes where we grow the Cabernet Sauvignon grapes and other Bordeaux blending varietals for our wine. The vineyard was planned, planted and farmed under the guidance of our winemaker, Sean Capiaux.
Tasting are primarily conducted in the winery.Music in Tasting Room: Various
O'Shaughnessy Estate Winery Wine Club
Wine clubs are a great way to stay connected to your favorite wineries.
To join the wine club, visit www.oshaughnessywinery.com or call 707-965-2898.
Once a year the rarest new Napa Valley wines become available under one roof at Premiere Napa Valley. Wineries throughout the Napa Valley are given one task to participate: create a one-of-a-kind wine for this event to be purchased by one lucky bidder. This event is only open to select members of the wine trade and the successful bidder is the sole owner of this unique wine.
O'Shaughnessy Estate Winery
Cases: 5
Varietal: Red Wine
Vintage: 2017
Release Date: October - 2020
Appellation: Howell Mountain
To purchase this wine or check on availability contact:
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Google is increasingly requiring users to sign up for Google+, its social network competitor to Facebook, in order to access Google's other free services, according to The Wall Street Journal. The paper argues that Google is engaged in a vast information-gathering effort to counter the competitive threat from Facebook.
My colleague Nicholas Carlson believes this controversy is "silly" because all it does is make Google's various products -- Gmail, YouTube -- easier to use.
In fact it is controversial, and it's not about convenience. It's about cash, tracking, and the end of privacy.
First, here's what's at stake, per the WSJ:
Because using Google+ requires people to sign in to their Google accounts, Google will be able to blend mounds of data about individual users' search habits and the websites they visit with their activities on Google+. That is a potential boon to Google's ad business, from which the company derives about 95% of its more than $40 billion in annual revenue, excluding its new Motorola phone-making unit.
Google's search ad business was just fine before Facebook came along, and it's still doing well. So why does Google suddenly need everyone on board with Google+?
The biggest recent change in the competitive landscape is Amazon. In December, Amazon launched its own ad exchange -- a hugely powerful ad network that, ultimately, could promise to use Amazon's vast trove of consumer purchase data to target ads.
It's also a direct competitor to Google's ad networks.
Here's how the Google v. Facebook v. Amazon advertising landscape now looks:
- Amazon: Owns the best database of actual shopping history and purchases. This type of data is like gold for advertisers.
- Facebook: Owns the best database of personal information about consumers. 1 billion users strong, with all their interests and friends, it's terrifically useful stuff for marketers.
- Google: Has traditionally dominated the "purchase intent" sector of the category. When people search for "Star Wars DVD" online, that's a pretty good indicator they want to buy said movie.
Until recently, Google's data on shoppers and their purchase histories and demographics has never been as good as Amazon's or Facebook's.
Google+ promises to change all that, by linking your personal profile data to anything you do elsewhere in Google. It's like a combo of Facebook's data with Google search data. By contrast, Facebook and Amazon have only their own data -- leaving Google (in theory) the more interesting ad partner.
Why is this controversial? Because users have handed Google (and Facebook and Amazon) all this data free of charge. Data is an asset that has value, and that asset has largely been transferred en masse to Google et al. without direct compensation. Certainly, Google has given users free use of its products. But it hasn't given cash to its users the way its users have generated cash for Google. And along with that data went users' anonymity.
With Amazon now on the scene -- right in the heart of Google's ad business -- shoring up that cash machine is Google's top priority.
So yes, you're going to get a Google+ profile whether you like it or not.
Disclosure: The authors owns Facebook and Google stock.
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Hopes for emergency manager: professional coordination
News editor
Sheriff Rob Craft, deputy Jim Philpott, 911 supervisor Linda Klenda, and Hillsboro Fire Chief Ben Steketee told county commissioners Tuesday about their hopes for a new emergency manager.
Steketee said fire chiefs from across the county met recently and discussed the position.
"We would hope for a professional, experienced emergency manager," he said.
He said there needed to be more countywide training events with fire, ambulances, and law enforcement.
"I like (the sheriff), but the last time we did anything together was that meth decontamination," Steketee said.
Planning among cities is another thing he hopes an emergency manager will coordinate.
Philpott said it was important for an emergency manager to know what resources are available — in and out of the county — and where to find them.
"That emergency manager should be a walking resource," he said.
Craft said he supported having the emergency manager be a standalone position. However, it is important that person be an enthusiastic self-starter because of the job's nature as a planning position, he said.
Steketee said finding the right person would require paying the going rate for an emergency management professional. Commissioner Randy Dallke said the $42,000 a year salary currently offered is in line with what other counties of similar size pay.
Steketee volunteered to offer questions to be asked in the interview process, or to sit in on interviews and ask questions himself. Commissioner Roger Fleming said the final decision would rest with the commission, but he wanted others' opinions.
Commissioners then read emergency manager job descriptions from other counties.
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BUNGE has agreed to pay up to a $0.40/bu. premium for Pioneer Hi-Bred's low linolenic soybeans. The Bunge DuPont Biotech Alliance program expects to contract more than 200,000 acres of low-linolenic soybeans for 2006 in Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and Missouri. The alliance will market Nutrium Low Linolenic Soybean Oil, which is made from the low-linolenic soybeans, to food companies.
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Accrington mosque raider left DNA behind
A DRUNKEN mosque raider who smashed his way in with a spade was caught after he left a bottle with his DNA on it, a court was told.
Jamie Taylor, 27, ransacked the Faizan-e-Madina Mosque in Richmond Road, Accrington, at night last August 25 and stole a computer tower and cash.
It was the third time the premises had been targeted last year, although Taylor was not responsible for the other two break-ins, Burnley Crown Court heard.
The hearing was told Taylor, who considered himself a binge drinker and not an alcoholic, had also taken ketamine and cocaine before the unprofessional attack on the premises.
The defendant, of Burnley Road, Padiham, had admitted burglary and had been committed for sentence by Blackburn magistrates. He received a 12-month community order, with 100 hours unpaid work.
Lisa Worsley, prosecuting, said police were called to the mosque.
Taylor had broken in by the fire exit at the back. He took the computer and cash, together worth £420 and turned the office 'upside down'.
CCTV showed an offender at the point of entry with a bottle in his hand. He was seen to put it on the floor, next to the fire exit.
The bottle was tested and the DNA matched the defendant. He was questioned and made no comment.
Taylor had seven offences on his record and the burglary was his third alcohol-related crime.
David Ryan, for Taylor, who works nights at Boohoo in Burnley, said: "He doesn't consider himself to be alcohol dependent, but it's clearly been the root cause of his offending behaviour in the past and indeed in this occasion. He considers himself a binge drinker."
Sentencing, Judge Andrew Woolman said the burglary was 'unplanned and drunken' and continued: "It was very unprofessional. I suspect it was spur of the moment and it' not the usual sort of offence you commit."
The judge ordered the defendant to pay £420 compensation to the mosque and added: "They may think it's not enough because of the mess you made, but it's something."


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The cover is incredible this year. We have planted thicker and added more to the variety. Our dogs are feeling well rested and itching for the season to begin. That's an itch that their Frontline plus can't fix! We have been busy with dog training, 4-H and other fun with the kids and some outside improvement projects this summer and the time has gone by quickly. These cooler days have set our sights on the fast approaching season and we are looking forward to seeing everyone again. Hope the summer has been good to all.
Welcome to Mason Dixon Game Outftters
We offer upland game hunting in an environment that gives you the feel of hunting wild birds. We only book one hunt party on the farm at a time. We provide Pheasant, Chukar and Quail. Currently our guides, Jim , Kim, Mike, Adam and Chad work with German Shorthaired Pointers and English Pointers, English Setters, Labs & Brittney's. We are located in Northern Harford County, Maryland.
We encourage you to hunt over your well managed dogs, although trained dogs are available with your guide. We offer gun dog training for all pointing breeds. Combining years of gun dog experience ..AND..fair assessment of it's ability, we assist you to train your dog to become the best that it can be.
We only allow one hunting party on the farm at a time, therefore you get a private hunting experience every time. We can, however, make special exceptions for a corporate hunt with arrangements in advance. Our goal is to make each hunt as much like a natural hunt as we possibly can and we take great pride in this.
Hunting Season: October 1st - March31st.
Birds Hunted: Quail, Chukar, Pheasant. Areas Hunted: Private preserve in Northern Maryland .
Our farms include over 300 acres of mixed terrain including natural rolling hills with flowing streams, grasses, crop fields, thickets and wooded areas. We provide only sporty, hard flying birds at a reasonable price. We only allow one hunting party on the farm at a time, therefore you get a private hunting experience every time. We can make special exceptions for a corporate hunt with special arrangements in advance however. We make this as much like a natural hunt as we possibly can and take great pride in this.
Top quality dogs provided with the guides. Started dogs and puppies sold when available. We raise German Shorthaired Pointers, English Pointers and Labs.
Great kids working some great dogs.
Parent Brags: :)
Emily finished her dog Ivy on an AKC Junior title & Trevor finished Rex with an AKC Junior title. The kids trained and handled on their own dogs and we couldn't be prouder of them.


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Chavez Holes Up
At the Mayor Martin Chavez headquarters, doors are locked. Certain people are being allowed inside to watch results. It looks pretty grim from what I can see. The mayor appears stressed. Reporters are pacing the O'Neill's parking lot or hovering near their cars. We've been told Chavez is going to show up at O'Neill's at 9 p.m.
I've covered elections for 20 years, and I've never seen a candidate who holes up behind locked doors to watch election results.
When polls close, results are posted on the doors of the polling locations. It looks like Chavez is receiving results location by location. It's possible that he'll know the results before the public.


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The New York Times Relaunches Windows Phone App
The New York Times refreshes its Windows Phone app for improved performance and optimal reading.
Just like the previous version, users can choose to interact with 25 different sections of the NYTimes including viewing including videos, slide shows and blogs. You can also leave comments share article across your social media networks and email. Don't think you're getting off that easy - Only the "Top News" section of the NYTimes app is free, accessing more sections requires a digital subscription.
But if the NYTimes is your go-to source for news and information, check out the new version of the Windows Phone app that includes new features like:
- Live Tile Integration – users can pin any of the sections and blogs as Live Tiles to quickly see the latest headlines at a glance
- Pivot Navigation – users can see articles, videos and blogs in each section
- Cloud Integration – users may save articles to the cloud for access from multiple devices
- Updated and refreshed design
- Improved performance and fast application switching
The NYTimes app is today from the Windows Phone Marketplace. So check it out and let us know what you think in the comments section.


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I have a confession.
I like to make low-calorie desserts, so I can go back for seconds and thirds without the guilt. I am all about moderation, but there are times when a girl needs to eat three cookies.
This was one of those times. I was having a severe sugary-sweet craving and, of course, I am in desperate need to go grocery shopping. Thankfully, I found a bottle of blackstrap molasses in the back of my cabinet! I don't even remember why I originally bought it, probably for a "recipe-that-never-was," but regardless I was up for putting it to good use.
I'd like to introduce you to my molasses cookies!
This is what happens when you stick me in a near-empty kitchen with a sweet-tooth, and a desire to make something I can eat in multiples of two without feeling like I will gain 10 pounds as soon as I swallow the first bite.
To make these a little less fattening, I substituted unsweetened applesauce for the butter. I also substituted 1/4 cup of the sugar with 6 packets of stevia. Instead of using all white flour, I used 1/2 cup white and 2 cups wheat.
At the end of the day, these cookies have approximately 92 calories and 0.3 grams of fat. The sugar is 10 grams, but play around with the amount. You may be able to substitute more packets for the sugar, or cut back on the amount of white sugar altogether. If you're really feeling creative, I bet you could even sub flax meal for the egg. I thought about doing that, but seeing as how I was already doing a lot of substitutions, I didn't want to let things get too crazy up in here!
"No-Sweat" Molasses Cookies
inspired by: BonAppetit and Allrecipes.com
1/2 cup white flour
2 cups wheat flour
2 tsp ginger or nutmeg
1 tsp baking soda
3/4tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp ground black pepper
3/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
6 stevia packets
3/4 cup white sugar**
1 egg
1 tbsp water
1/4 cup blackstrap molasses
2 tbsp sugar
1. Preheat over to 350 degrees.
2. Sift flour, ginger (or nutmeg), baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, salt and pepper into a small bowl.
3. In a separate bowl, cream together applesauce, stevia, and 3/4 cup of sugar** until light and fluffy looking.
4. Beat egg into the applesauce/sugar mixture. Next, stir in water and molasses.
5. Gradually add the flour and stir.
6. The dough won't be thick enough to form balls. Instead, scoop the dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet by the tablespoon. Sprinkle with remaining sugar.
7. Bake for 8-10 minutes, and enjoy!
**Note: Again, if you'd like to cut back on the sugar, play around with the sugar-stevia ratio. This recipe seems to be very forgiving.
Why are they called "No-Sweat" Molasses Cookies? Because you can eat them without the need to go run 5-miles immediately afterwards…unless you want to that is!
Let me know if you try these, and how they turn out for you!
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|Donald M. Payne, Sr.
|Son, Donald Payne, Jr.
NEWS ALERT: The subsequent passing of this Congressman is truly a sad day for all mankind. A truly great advocate for basic human and civil rights has left the stage and will be missed by all. Congressman Donald M. Payne, Sr. issued a personal challenge to the Let's Reach 1 Million People Campaign in 2011 for LGBT Equality. The young grassroots organization issued a release on July 18, 2011 summarizing his challenge.
The organization is in the process of drafting correspondence to his son, Donald Payne, Jr., Newark Council President and Essex County Freeholder, who recently beat out five other candidates in the primary to get his name on November's ballot, to find out his intent on carrying out and continuing the support shown for the LGBT by his father and whether or not he was even aware of the challenge his father gave to the grassroots organization, as well as his knowing what plans his father alluded to in the challenge for potentially stepping up his support for LGBT Equality. Donald Payne, Jr. was also the winner of a special election to fill the unexpired term of his father, who died suddenly this past March of colon cancer.
The following is an excerpt from a June 6, 2012 article written by Monica Miller in NEWSWORKS New Jersey:
"Well, I wouldn't even kid you to think that I could fill those shoes. But, I'm standing on his shoulders," said Payne, Jr. "I understand what he wanted for this community. I understand what he wanted for this state. I understand what he wanted for this world. So, no one -- no one better than I can continue to do the work that the late Congressman Donald Payne did for everyone."
While it may appear this news alert is coming a little late being a short while since his passing; the organization thought it best to wait and see how the primary turned out last week as to whether his son looks to be the one to carry on the legacy of Congressman Payne...it does so look for that to be the case! (Because this district is so heavily Democratic, Donald Payne, Jr. will most likely win in November's general election.)
Congressman Payne was a progressive, staunch champion of civil, women's and labor rights, as well as an ally of the LGBT. He was steadfast in his support for equality. Congressman Payne was also up for re-election this year. He always thought representatives, at the end of the day, should side with constituents and was quoted once in an article as saying the following, "Members listen to constituents and will side with them over lobbyists if they assert themselves and hold their representatives accountable. Church groups and advocacy organizations can be particularly effective." This philosophy of his can definitely be seen in the challenge he issued in 2011.
This grassroots organization is particularly interested in ascertaining that his son, Donald Payne, Jr. will stand for the same progressive values his father stood for, including civil, human, women's, workers', immigrant and LGBT rights. He already has the support and endorsement of Jesse Jackson, Jr.
In closing: Was the challenge issued in 2011 so confidential because the congressman was up for re-election? I shouldn't think so as he had never really encountered any challenges of his own in continuing on in Congress for all of those years. We hope to find out some answers with correspondence in the works to Donald Payne, Jr.


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Hermes Steve BesaceCategories:Other Brands
The Hermes Steve Besace bag is destined to be worn only by men that live in the world of luxury and money, a world where style and refinement is a must, where $9000 spent on a purse is an insignificant amount of money. These masters of the universe dress in wool crepe suits, travel only on private jets and wear the ultimate messenger bag: Hermes Steve Besace. This extremely expensive and luxurious purse is nowadays the most iconic bag designed for males and it expresses style, power and fame.
Still, what are the core key characteristics of a Hermes Steve Besace bag? Firstly, as all modern men's purses, it is a messenger bag. This basically means that it is a shoulder bag with a very long strap that goes across the body hanging on the lower back. It is manufactured from bull calfskin leather and is nicely styled-up by the addition of silver color hardware. Of course, for enhanced comfort and versatility, the shoulder strap is adjustable. Another important detail is the use of numerous pockets both at the inside and outside. By all means, it is an extraordinary fashionable bag!
The original Hermes Steve Besace comes in three sizes: the smaller size version is 28 centimeters and it is also called the Steve "Caporal", the medium size is 35 centimeters and it is the most preferred one and the large size is 38 centimeters, this is suitable for men that are very tall. This Hermes replica purse is the medium size one and it measures 35 centimeters just like the authentic medium version.
The leather used on this Steve Besace replica model is incredibly sturdy and firm, but has a resolutely smooth outside that feels great when you touch it. Clearly, this imitation Hermes bag is made from very good quality leather, a supple one that clones perfectly the authentic purse. Also, the outside fabric is texturized; it has a texture that resembles a lot to little pebbles. On the inside it has a leather lining, same color and same basic leather, but with a different texture, a plain one with barely noticeable lines. What I noticed, but only after ordering the replica is that this type of brown color doesn't correspond to the original shades of brown used by the original Hermes company. The authentic Steve Besace bag doesn't come in this shade of brown. I must confess that it was a real disappointment.
The craftsmanship of the replica Steve Besace bag is flawless. The leather is perfectly sewn together with white threads and is nicely cut and finished on the edges. Also, it does not have any smudges, stains or discolorations. As already mentioned, the stitching is very well done. The white stitches are evenly spaced apart and do not seem to have any imperfections.
At the interior, we find three compartments and a zipper pocket. Exactly as the original Hermes Steve Besace bag has. It is a versatile bag that adapts without problems to your everyday necessities.
Under the flap cover of the bag- the one that has the two leather belts that close over it- there is the "HERMES PARIS MADE IN FRANCE" logo written on three different rows with the accent on the second "E". This marking on the original Steve Besace bag is colored in gold, but on my Hermes replica is silver color. Luckily, it is not very visible as the flap cover is always over this writing.
The hardware is another minus of my Hermes Steve Besace replica. The authentic model is made from silver and palladium plated metal while my imitation Steve Besace is crafted from stainless steel. This translates as a less shiny silver color hardware that does not look at all authentic or refined. Additionally, on the clasps you can see small scratch marks. This ruins the overall look of the bag.
The shoulder leather belt is very comfortable. It feels naturally and light weighted once worn across the body. Also, it can be adjusted very easily as to be shorter or longer depending on how tall you are.
The Hermes Steve Besace bag with its ultra-simple shape and design cannot pass without notice. It features a balanced combination of luxurious and casual lines, making it the ultimate men purse. Precisely because it is a frivolous and splendid bag, I had to see if it can be replicated successfully. Overall, this replica is a nice reproduction of the brutally gorgeous Steve Messenger bag. It is made from very good quality leather; it has the exact same size, an excellent craftsmanship and all the correct pockets and markings.
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Louis Vuitton Moon Besace BagCategories:Louis Vuitton
Meet the Louis Vuitton Moon Besace Bag.
The latest bag presented for the Spring Summer 2015 Collection and for your information, it's a cool bag, here's why:
The Moon Besace Bag is the first bag for women to feature the Louis Vuiton's signature Taiga Leaher in supple body-friendly version. The House's stamp is subtly presented on the distinctive Tuck closure.
It's named the 'Moon' is thanks to its curvy and round shape, and if you look closely, even the handles are curved.
Considering the iconic canvas prints, the Moon Besace is a totally different Louis Vuitton style. It's edgy and arty, it can be carried by hand, over the shoulder or cross body, thanks to its removable strap.
Crafted from natural cowhide and bi-color brass, the interior is lined with sheepskin, featuring a zipped pocket at the back, inside flat pocket and refined with palladium hardware. Measuring 14.6 x 11.0 x 1.2 inches for the GM size, priced at $3600 USD or 2500 euro via Louis Vuitton boutique or e-store.
Louis Vuitton Moon Besace Taiga PM
Size: 24 x 18 x 3 cm
Price: €2300 euro
Louis Vuitton Moon Besace Patchwork GM
Price: $6600 USD and €4500 euro
Tags: Louis Vuitton bag Moon Besace
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Louis Vuitton Moon Besace Hobo Bag Reference GuideCategories:Louis Vuitton
Introducing the Louis Vuitton Moon Besace Bag. The Moon Besace Bag is Louis Vuitton was first presented in the Spring/Summer 2015 Runway show. There were some colors seen at the runway show, but as of the moment, only two styles are featured in the Louis Vuitton website.
The blue with natural cowhide trim is made of supple Taiga leather, while the other multicolor style is designed in a French marquetry inlay made of lambskin, suede and eel skin. The bag's interior is made of Sheepskin lining and includes a flat pocket. It also has a zipped pocket at the back of the bag. The bag can be carried by on the shoulder as hobo or crossbody since the strap is removable. It features a Palladium and golden brass Tuck closure which matches the natural cowhide Louis Vuitton stamp
Style, Price & Size
|Louis Vuitton Moon Besace Patchwork GM Bag
|14.6″ L x 11.0″ H x 1.2″ W
|Louis Vuitton Moon Besace Taiga GM Bag
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North Raleigh: Community
Club Notes: May 8
Triangle military officers
Tickets are available for the Triangle Chapter Military Officers Association of America's annual barbecue and oyster bake at 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 11, at Milburnie Fish Camp, 1308 Old Milburnie Road, Raleigh. Any current or former commissioned or warrant officer in any of the seven uniformed services and their guests may attend. The cost is $30 per person. RSVP and payment were due by May 5. Tickets can be purchased on the group's website at trianglemoaa.com.
Raleigh Arthritis and Fibromyalgia Support Group
The Raleigh Arthritis and Fibromyalgia Support Group will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, May 9, at North Raleigh Brookdale, 1200 Carlos Drive, Raleigh. A natural substance that relaxes muscles will be discussed. For details, call Esther at 919-782-6784 or Grace at 919-303-8080.
Association of IT Professionals
The RTP chapter of the Association of IT Professionals will meet at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 12, at N.C. State's University Club, 4200 Hillsborough St., Raleigh. A panel discussion will focus on "DevOps – From the Hype to the Bottom Line." For more information, go to http://rtp-aitp.org/next-meeting/ or call 984-200-7917.
Wake Senior Democrats
The Wake Senior Democrats will meet at 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 18, at the Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley, 4500 Marriott Drive, Raleigh. Dan Blue, candidate for N.C. state treasurer, and Michael Morgan, candidate for the state Supreme Court, will speak. Visitors are welcome.
League of Women Voters
The League of Women Voters at Wake County will host a Timely Topics luncheon at noon Friday, May 20, at the NCSU University Club, 4200 Hillsborough St., Raleigh. Glen D. Anderson will talk about Climate Change Adaption: Using Climate Data to Improve Decision Making on Small Farms. The public is welcome. Lunch costs $18 per person; reservations can be made at www.lwvwake.org by May 16.
Raleigh Diabetes Support Group
The Raleigh Diabetes Support Group will meet from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, May 21, at Milner Church, 1950 New Bern Ave., Raleigh. Dr. Robert Milham will talk about how to reverse type 2 diabetes. Lunch will be provided at no charge, but donations will be accepted. Call 919-604-3519 or email firstname.lastname@example.com to register.
Single Women with Children support group
Where The Healing Begins, a support group of Single Women Children, Inc., meets from 6 to 7:30 p.m. the fourth Monday of each month at 500 New Hope Road, Suite 109, Raleigh. All are welcomed. For more information, email email@example.com or call 919-250-3593 or 919-271-8198.
Carolina Dance Club
The Carolina Dance Club hosts swing-dance parties every Sunday at the Raleigh Elks Lodge, 5538 Lead Mine Road, Raleigh. An introductory lesson begins at 6:15 p.m., and open dancing is from 7 to 10 p.m. Newcomers are welcome. Admission is $10.
Garner Woman's Club
The Garner Woman's Club meets the second Thursday of the month except June, July, August and December at 6:30 p.m. For more information, go to garnerwomansclub.org.
Wake Forest Kiwanis
Wake Forest Kiwanis hosts bingo from 6:30 to 9 p.m. every Monday at The Factory, 1839 S. Main St., Wake Forest. For more information, go to www.wakeforestkiwanis.com.
Brier Creek Seniors
The Brier Creek Seniors meet from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays for social activities, speakers, trips, and games at the Brier Creek Elementary School/Community Center. For details call 919-973-4044.
Triangle Singles Club
A dance club for single people age 40 and older meets from 8:30 to 11 p.m. on alternating Fridays and Saturdays at Northbrook Country Club, 4905 North Hills Drive, Raleigh. The cost is $5 for members and $8 for guests. The event features a DJ, food and soft drinks. For details, call Lewis Lemond at 919-740-3103 or go to www.meetup.com/Triangle-Singles-Club.
Wake County Republican Women's Club
The Wake County Republican Women's Club meets the third Thursday of each month at the University Club, 4200 Hillsborough St., Raleigh. A social begins at 11:30 a.m. and the lunch and program begin at 11:45 a.m. To register, go to www.wakerepublicanwomen.org.
Wake Forest Area Republican Club
The Wake Forest Area Republican Club meets at 6 p.m. the second Monday of each month at Real McCoy's, 3325 Rogers Road, Wake Forest. Dinner starts at 6 p.m. and the meeting starts at 7 p.m.
Triangle Stroke Support Group
A support group for stroke patients, caregivers and people at risk of having a stroke meets at noon the third Tuesday of each month at St. Matthew AME Church, 1629 Bennett St., Raleigh. All meetings are free and open to the community.
Hi Rise Toastmasters
The Hi Rise Toastmasters meet from noon to 1 p.m. every Wednesday at the Downtown Express Library, 336 Fayetteville St., Raleigh. For details, email firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Wake Forest Survivors of Suicide
The Wake Forest Survivors of Suicide is a support group for those who have been affected by suicide. The group meets from 6:30 to 8 p.m. the second Thursday of each month at 10580 Ligon Mill Rd., Ste. 210, Perkins Counseling, Wake Forest. Questions may be directed to 919-368-6286 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Alzheimer's and Related Dementia Support Group
Alzheimer's and Related Dementia Support Group meets at noon the third Tuesday of each month at Spring Arbor of Raleigh, 1810 New Hope Road, Raleigh. The group offers a safe place for caregivers, family members and friends of people with dementia to meet and develop a support system. To RSVP, email email@example.com or call 919-250-0255.
Newcomers Club
Newcomers Club of Raleigh invites members and prospective members to Welcome Coffees the first Friday of the month from 10 a.m. to noon at the Harrington Grove Swim and Racquet Club, 12201 New Leesville Blvd., Raleigh. For details, go to NewcomersClubRaleigh.org.
Wake Forest Lions Club
The Wake Forest Lions Club meets at 7 p.m. the second and fourth Thursday of each month at The Forks Cafeteria, 339 S. Brooks St. For details, call Bob Wallace at 919-671-9913.
Rotary clubs
▪ The Rotary Club of Wake Forest meets for fellowship, dinner and presentations from guest speakers at 6:30 p.m. Mondays at The Forks Cafeteria, 339 S. Brooks St., Wake Forest. For details, email email@example.com.
▪ The Rotary Club of Wakefield meets from 7:45 to 9 a.m. Thursdays at Heritage Golf Club, 1250 Heritage Club Drive. Wake Forest. For details, go to WakefieldRotaryNC.com.
Wake Forest Optimist Club
The Wake Forest Optimist Club meets at 7 p.m. the first and third Wednesday of each month at The Forks Cafeteria, 339 S. Brooks St. For details, call Dawn Nakash at 919-926-1452.
Wake Forest Kiwanis Club
▪ The Wake Forest Kiwanis Club meets at 7:30 a.m. Thursdays at The Forks Cafeteria, 339 S. Brooks St., Wake Forest. For details, email email@example.com.
▪ The club meets for Bingo from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Mondays at The Factory, 1839 S. Main St., Wake Forest. Participants pay a $20 entry fee and receive a packet of cards and the chance to win cash prizes. For details, go to WakeForestBingo.com.
Chess club
A chess club for ages 16 and older meets from 6 to 8 p.m. Mondays at the Wake Forest Coffee Company, 156 S. White St., Wake Forest. For details, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Civil War Roundtable
The Raleigh Civil War Roundtable meets for a lecture program at 7 p.m. the second Monday of each month in the Daniels Auditorium at the N.C. Museum of History, 5 E. Edenton St., Raleigh. Admission is free; new members are welcome.
TOPS Morning Club
Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) Morning Club hosts 9:30 a.m. weigh-ins and 10:30 a.m. meetings Mondays at Hope Lutheran Church, 3525 Rogers Road, Wake Forest, and other locations. One-year membership to the nonprofit weight loss support program costs $32. For details, call Laura Wickwar at 919-621-3613 or go to www.tops.org.
Social clubs
Specialized Recreation Services of the City of Raleigh offers three social clubs for individuals with developmental disabilities. The clubs encourage the development of appropriate leisure and social skills. For details, call 919-996-2147.
▪ Adventure Club: Members, ages 15-24, work on money-handling skills and appropriate community behavior.
▪ Wildcats Club: Members, ages 25-34, work on money management, community skills and activity planning.
▪ Dragons Club: Members, ages 35 and older, continue developing appropriate social and community skills while focusing on independent-living skills.
Bridge clubs
▪ Vanderbilt Bridge Club offers competitive bridge games Monday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings at the Quail Hollow Swim Club, 800 Orleans Place, Raleigh. Beginner bridge classes are also offered. For details, call 919-847-8963.
▪ The Capitol Bridge Club meets for competitive bridge from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesdays and Fridays at Jaycee Community Center, 2405 Wade Ave., Raleigh. For details, call 919-996-6833.
Seniors dance club
Pullen Park invites seniors 50 and older to its dance club, which meets from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesdays at the Pullen Community Center, 408 Ashe Ave., Raleigh. The club dances to live ballroom music including foxtrot, waltz, swing and Latin tunes. The cost is $8 per person per week. For details, call 919-831-6052.
Send Club Notes to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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In the middle of the day it was crazy hot so we where sitting in the shade at the Dice Magazine stand drinking gin tonics and crackers with cheese and home-made marmalade.
While drinking an other gin tonic and wearing shorts and a t-shirt David from El Solitario asked me if I wanted to test ride the just finished Trimotoro V650 Moto Guzzi. Hell yes!
I borrowed a helmet and gloves and jumped on the Guzzi. I never rode a Guzzi before.
It was a blast. I expected the seat to be very uncomfortable but I can tell you I was wrong. My bare knees touched the cylinders a few times so my knees where on fire the next days but it was great to ride in Biarritz after standing on the side taking pictures while everyone was blasting through town and me wanting to ride so badly...
It handled great, perfect riding geometry, nice power output and a sweet sound, the gin making me feeling a little light in the head, nice breeze and perfect weather. I was in heaven for 30 minutes. Thanks David, you the man. :)


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Atlanta Hawks (34 - 22) @ Golden State Warriors (26 - 30)
Start time: 7:30 PM PST @ The Oracle Arena
Local TV: CSN Bay Area
Probable starters for the Golden State Warriors:
C - Andris Biedrins
PF - David Lee
SF - Dorell Wright
SG - Monta Ellis
PG - Stephen Curry
Probable starters for the Atlanta Hawks:
C - Al Horford
PF - Josh Smith
SF - Marvin Williams
SG - Joe Johnson
PG - Jeff Teague
Team leaders:
PPG - M. Ellis (25.3) | J. Johnson (19.6)
RPG - D. Lee (9.4) | A. Horford (9.8)
APG - S. Curry (6.0) | J. Johnson (5.4)
SPG - M. Ellis (2.2) | J. Smith (1.4)
BPG - A. Biedrins (0.9) | J. Smith (1.7)
Game Thread: Atlanta Hawks @ Warriors 2011-02-25
Talk about the upcoming Warriors game here
Moderators: Mr. Crackerz, JREED, Guybrush, 32
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W'S BY 10+, DAMMIT!!! Maybe if we get in Josh Smith's head like KG got in Lee's we can totally get him cryin to the refs and bitchin the entire game... oh. He already does that every game. FUK the Hawks. They are everything that is wrong with the NBA.
AST:TO is gonna tell the story. mark my words
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LilBallerx8 wrote:AST:TO is gonna tell the story. mark my words
given the very recent shuffle of ATL's lineup with the trade of Bibby and others (was that Jamaal or Jordan Crawford?), I like our odds better with them trying to assimilate new players in the rotation. Have to admit I can't remember who Hawks got in the trade, just heard a quick ESPN update on the radio coming home from a high-school game last night.
Well, the Suns and Rockets getting their $hit together...hopefully we can keep up and beat this team.
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They got Kirk Heinrich from the Wizards, he's a good player but even if he plays I don't think he will have a make or break factor in the outcome of the game.
Route waiting to happen...shooting 5 of 16...hopefully they can pick it up a little.
They probably just don't want to match their win total from last year just yet...they probably want to hit 29 wins towards the end of the season...looking that way Dubs...or should I say DuDs! We'll see..
What do you say at halftime down by 20 if you're Keith Smart? Good job guys! You can get this one! Only he would say that I guess..


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Major Section: RELEASE-NOTES
The Version_2.8 notes are divided into the indicated subtopics. Here we give only a brief summary of just a few of the major new features and changes that seem most likely to impact existing proofs. Not included in this brief summary, but included in the subtopics, are descriptions of many improvements (including bug fixes and new functionality) that should not get in the way of existing proof efforts. In the description below we also omit discussion of changes that will become clear by way of error messages if they affect you.
In particular, please see note-2-8-new-functionality for discussion of a number of new features that you may find useful.
Acknowledgements and elaboration, as well as other changes, can be found in the subtopics listed below.
o Some of the bug fixes (see note-2-8-bug-fixes):
+ Some soundness bugs were fixed.
+ The handling of free variables in hypotheses (see free-variables) of rewrite and linear rules had a bug that prevented some proofs from going through. Now that this bug has been fixed, you may find some proofs running much more slowly than before. You can use
add-match-free-overrideto remedy this situation; see note-2-8-bug-fixes for details.
+ The default-hints in the current logical world are no longer ignored by
+ Forms violating guard-checking such as
(defconst *silly* (car 3))are now allowed in books.
o Some of the new functionality (see note-2-8-new-functionality):
+ WARNING: You may find that
control-d(in emacs,
control-c control-d) can throw you completely out of Lisp where it had not formerly done so.
+ ACL2 now starts up inside the ACL2 loop -- that is,
)is executed automatically -- when built on CLISP or Allegro CL. This was already the case for GCL and CMUCL, and it still is not true for Lispworks.
+ See note-2-8-ordinals for a discussion of a significant change in ordinal represtation, and in particular, for how to preserve existing proofs that depend on the previous ordinal representation.
+ Macros
mbe(``must be equal''),
mbt(``must be true''), and
defexechave been introduced, which allow the user to attach alternate executable definitions to functions.
+ The user can now control multiple matching for free variables in hypotheses for
forward-chainingrules, as has already been supported for
+ It is no longer necessary to specify
(set-match-free-error nil)in order to avoid errors when a rule with free variables in its hypotheses is missing the
+ The form
(break-on-error)causes, at least for most Lisps, entry into the Lisp debugger whenever ACL2 causes an error.
+ A new
tablehas been provided so that advanced users can override the built-in
untranslatefunctionality. See user-defined-functions-table.
+ The
pstack(`process [prover] stack'') mechanism, formerly denoted
checkpoints, has been improved. One of these improvements is to show actual parameters with
(pstack t)rather than formals.
+ The
defstobjevent is now allowed to take an
:inlineargument, which can speed up execution.
+ Macro
cw-gstackno longer takes arguments for the
state. To print terms in full rather than abbreviated:
(cw-gstack :evisc-tuple nil).
+ The
include-bookevent now has an additional (optional) keyword,
:dir. In particular,
(include-book "foo/bar" :dir :system)will include the indicated book after prepending the path of the built-in
books/directory. You will probably not find
:dir :systemto be useful if you move the executable image or distributed books; see include-book, in particular its ``soundness warning''.
+ The printing of results in raw mode (see set-raw-mode) may now be partially controlled by the user: see add-raw-arity.
+ For those using Unix/Linux
make: A
cert.acl2file can contain forms to be evaluated before an appropriate
certify-bookcommand is invoked automatically (not included in
o Some of the changes in the proof engine (see note-2-8-proofs):
+ ACL2 now prevents certain rewriting loops; see rewrite-stack-limit.
+ Small changes have been made to heuristics for controlling rewriting during proofs by induction and in handling certain ``weak'' compound-recognizer rules.
+ The handling of free variables in a hypothesis of a rewrite rule (see free-variables) has been improved in the case that the hypothesis is of the form
(equiv x y), where
equivis a known equivalence relation (see equivalence).
+ We have modified how the ACL2 simplifier handles the application of a defined function symbol to constant arguments, by avoiding the introduction of hide when evaluation fails if the term can be rewritten.
+ The generation of "Goal" for recursive (and mutually-recursive) definitions now uses the subsumption/replacement limitation (default 500). See case-split-limitations.
+ Default hints now apply to hints given in definitions, not just theorems. See default-hints.
+ Linear arithmetic now uses the conclusions of
forward-chainingrules, and
type-setnow uses a small amount of linear reasoning when deciding inequalities.
o Some of the changes in rules, definitions, and constants (see note-2-8-rules):
+ See the above doc topic.
o Guard-related changes are described in see note-2-8-bug-fixes.
o Some of the proof-checker changes (see note-2-8-proof-checker):
+ Added new proof-checker commands
wrap, and
wrap-induct, to combine multiple conjuncts or goals.
+ The
type-alistcommand now takes optional arguments that control whether or not the governors and/or conclusion are used in computing the context.
o Some of the system-level changes (see note-2-8-system):
+ ACL2 now runs on OpenMCL and on MCL 5.0.
o Some of the other changes (see note-2-8-other):
+ Emacs file
emacs/emacs-acl2.elhas been updated (see note-2-8-other for details).
+ When
:plis given a term other than a symbol, it will print all rewrite rules that match that term.
+ A new function,
pkg-witness, returns a symbol in the given package.
+ The list constant
*acl2-exports*has been extended.
+ A new release of the rtl library has been included:
books/rtl/rel4/. See the
READMEfile in that directory.
Again, please proceed to the subtopics for more thorough release notes.


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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Federal Agency Charges That Employer Discharged Two Employees Because They Were Pregnant
MOBILE, Ala. -- S.T.L.I, Inc., doing business as J's Seafood Restaurant of Panama City, a Florida corporation operating a seafood restaurant in Panama City, Fla., violated federal law by discharging two servers because of their pregnancy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed today.
According to the EEOC's suit, both servers were hired in June 2011 and terminated in October of that year after the restaurant became aware of their pregnancies. According to the EEOC, the restaurant told the employees that their pregnancies caused them to be a liability to the company.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA), provides that it is unlawful for employers to discharge any individual because of her pregnancy. The EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. S.T.L. I, Inc. d/b/a J's Seafood Restaurant of Panama City, Case No. 5:12-cv-00317) in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida after an investigation was completed by the EEOC's Mobile Local Office and after the agency first attempted to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
The suit seeks monetary damages, including back pay, compensatory and punitive damages, reinstatement into the positions the employees previously held, and injunctive relief.
"The EEOC is committed to holding employers accountable when they fire employees, or subject them to other unlawful treatment, because of their sex or pregnancy," said C. Emanuel Smith, regional attorney for the EEOC's Birmingham District Office. "This lawsuit, we trust, will deter other employers from engaging in this same type of conduct."
Delner Franklin-Thomas, district director for the EEOC's Birmingham District, added, "Too many employers continue to penalize their female work force because of pregnancy. This lawsuit sends the message that employers need to hear - stop discriminating against pregnant employees."
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. The EEOC's Birmingham District consists of Alabama, Mississippi (except 17 northern counties) and the Florida Panhandle. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.