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I actually have a degree in Biblical Studies, and found that one of its themes is a calling for us to CHANGE.
"Do not be conformed...but be TRANSFORMED". Ever read THAT one?
I respect your privacy, but not your patronizing tone toward liberals who are trying to learn how to LOVE our enemies.
So was Doctor King's "agenda" opposite of yours? He was more liberal than any Democrat today.
"my patronizing tone." I don't have one. If anything, the liberals are the ones who are ALWAYS saying that they are right and everyone else is WRONG. I am sick of it. Go preach to someone else by the way. I don't listen to people who lack values.
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Extreme Running
Made popular by a recent James Bond film, a new urban art form called free running hits the streets
- By Jenny Mayo
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Parkour and free running emerged from Lisses, a Paris suburb where Foucan and his friend David Belle grew up. Belle's father, a firefighter and Vietnam veteran, had trained in an exercise regimen based on the methods of physical education expert Georges Hébert, which were meant to develop human strength (and values) through natural means: running, jumping, climbing and so forth.
Inspired by the techniques, Belle began playing around on public surfaces with friends, including Foucan, in the early 1990s. They called their efforts "parkour," from the French "parcours," meaning "route." (Hebert's methods also spurred the development of the "parcourse," or outdoor exercise track.)
"I didn't know what I was looking for when I was young," says Foucan. "Then I started to have this passion."
Shortly after the turn of the millennium, Belle and Foucan's playful assaults on urban facades surfaced in the public consciousness. In 2002, a BBC ad showed Belle sprinting across London's rooftops to get home from work. "There was a huge reaction," says English filmmaker Mike Christie. "No one really identified it as a sport, but I think it caught most people's eyes."
A year later, Britain's Channel 4 premiered a documentary, "Jump London," that Christie had directed on this new phenomenon. Loaded with footage of Foucan and other French traceurs bounding off London's edifices, it introduced the term "free running," which filmmakers thought to be a suitable English translation of "parkour."
According to Christie, an estimated 3 million viewers tuned in for the project's first screening, and it was subsequently exported to 65 additional countries for broadcast. Almost overnight, the practice exploded on the Internet. Toorock, who lived in Britain at the time, recalls that a local parkour Web site he was affiliated with, called Urban Freeflow, doubled its membership in a matter of weeks.
People used sites like this to meet others interested in group training sessions and "jams," where traceurs convene in one spot to do full-speed runs together, each lasting several seconds to several minutes.
By the time Christie's sequel, "Jump Britain," reached the airwaves in 2005, the United Kingdom had become a breeding ground for traceurs. Meanwhile, Toorock, who had relocated back to the United States, was founding his own parkour community, and the nascent video site YouTube was carrying images of the sport far beyond its European birthplace.
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The Waldseemüller Map: Charting the New World
Two obscure 16th-century German scholars named the American continent and changed the way people thought about the world
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This was an astonishing statement. Histories of New World discovery have long told us that it was only in 1513—after Vasco Núñez de Balboa had first caught sight of the Pacific by looking west from a mountain peak in Panama—that Europeans began to conceive of the New World as something other than a part of Asia. And it was only after 1520, once Magellan had rounded the tip of South America and sailed into the Pacific, that Europeans were thought to have confirmed the continental nature of the New World. And yet here, in a book published in 1507, were references to a large world map that showed a new, fourth part of the world and called it America.
The references were tantalizing, but for those studying the Introduction to Cosmography in the 19th century, there was an obvious problem. The book contained no such map.
Scholars and collectors alike began to search for it, and by the 1890s, as the 400th anniversary of Columbus' first voyage approached, the search had become a quest for the cartographical Holy Grail. "No lost maps have ever been sought for so diligently as these," Britain's Geographical Journal declared at the turn of the century, referring both to the large map and the globe. But nothing turned up. In 1896, the historian of discovery John Boyd Thacher simply threw up his hands. "The mystery of the map," he wrote, "is a mystery still."
On March 4, 1493, seeking refuge from heavy seas, a storm-battered caravel flying the Spanish flag limped into Portugal's Tagus River estuary. In command was one Christoforo Colombo, a Genoese sailor destined to become better known by his Latinized name, Christopher Columbus. After finding a suitable anchorage site, Columbus dispatched a letter to his sponsors, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, reporting in exultation that after a 33-day crossing he had reached the Indies, a vast archipelago on the eastern outskirts of Asia.
The Spanish sovereigns greeted the news with excitement and pride, though neither they nor anybody else initially assumed that Columbus had done anything revolutionary. European sailors had been discovering new islands in the Atlantic for more than a century—the Canaries, the Madeiras, the Azores, the Cape Verde islands. People had good reason, based on the dazzling variety of islands that dotted the oceans of medieval maps, to assume that many more remained to be found.
Some people assumed that Columbus had found nothing more than a few new Canary Islands. Even if Columbus had reached the Indies, that didn't mean he had expanded Europe's geographical horizons. By sailing west to what appeared to be the Indies (but in actuality were the islands of the Caribbean), he had confirmed an ancient theory that nothing but a small ocean separated Europe from Asia. Columbus had closed a geographical circle, it seemed—making the world smaller, not larger.
But the world began to expand again in the early 1500s. The news first reached most Europeans in letters by Amerigo Vespucci, a Florentine merchant who had taken part in at least two voyages across the Atlantic, one sponsored by Spain, the other by Portugal, and had sailed along a giant continental landmass that appeared on no maps of the time. What was sensational, even mind-blowing, about this newly discovered land was that it stretched thousands of miles beyond the Equator to the south. Printers in Florence jumped at the chance to publicize the news, and in late 1502 or early 1503 they printed a doctored version of one of Vespucci's letters, under the title Mundus Novus, or New World, in which he appeared to say that he'd discovered a new continent. The work quickly became a best seller.
"In the past," it began, "I have written to you in rather ample detail about my return from those new regions...and which can be called a new world, since our ancestors had no knowledge of them, and they are entirely new matter to those who hear about them. Indeed, it surpasses the opinion of our ancient authorities, since most of them assert that there is no continent south of the equator....[But] I have discovered a continent in those southern regions that is inhabited by more numerous peoples and animals than in our Europe, or Asia or Africa."
This passage has been described as a watershed moment in European geographical thought—the moment at which a European first became aware that the New World was distinct from Asia. But "new world" didn't necessarily mean then what it means today. Europeans used it regularly to describe any part of the known world that they had not previously visited or seen described. In fact, in another letter, unambiguously attributed to Vespucci, he made clear where he thought he had been on his voyages. "We concluded," he wrote, "that this was continental land—which I esteem to be bounded by the eastern part of Asia."
In 1504 or so, a copy of the New World letter fell into the hands of an Alsatian scholar and poet named Matthias Ringmann. Then in his early 20s, Ringmann taught school and worked as a proofreader at a small printing press in Strasbourg, but he had a side interest in classical geography—specifically, the work of Ptolemy. In a work known as the Geography, Ptolemy had explained how to map the world in degrees of latitude and longitude, a system he had used to stitch together a comprehensive picture of the world as it was known in antiquity. His maps depicted most of Europe, the northern half of Africa and the western half of Asia, but they didn't, of course, include all the parts of Asia visited by Marco Polo in the 13th century, or the parts of southern Africa discovered by the Portuguese in the latter half of the 15th century.
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Posted by RAGHU K on June 25,2013 | 05:13 AM
Yes, great map and story.
I, too, am wondering if copies are available.
Posted by Ron Munson on April 11,2010 | 06:56 PM
This anomalously accurate map, like the Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings (Hapgood), was drawn from ancient source maps drawn by the mapping method described in article #2 at http://IceAgeCivilizations.com.
Posted by James I. Nienhuis on February 6,2010 | 08:14 AM
There is a very good DVD called THE MAP MAKERS - ep. 1 is about this map, and some other early maps.(was a 3 TV episode series by "Wild Dream Films" in association with "The History Channel" - so possibly gets repeated on cable.
Ep 2: is on Mercator Atlas.
Oddly - Ep 3 jumps to 400 years later - but it is very interesting, being about the elaborate mapping for the D-Day invasion of France in 1944.
But what happened to all the cartographic explorers in between - e.g. Captain Cook, Matthew Flinders - AND the other map makers in the rest of the world (Arabs, Turks, Chinese)? Maybe the Producers ran out of money? Pity.
Even just these 3 eps. are really worth seeing.
Posted by Dr Antony Howe on January 11,2010 | 02:37 AM
Not to be too pedantic, but St-Die was not in France in 1507. Lorraine was still part of the Holy Roman Empire, and would remain so for another 200 years. By law that is--but de facto, it was a separate state, with its own ruling family, and its own important patronage of artists and scholars, like Walseemuller.
Posted by Jonathan Spangler on January 11,2010 | 08:46 AM
An excellent article both fascinating and informative in an area that does not receive enough press. I shall buy the book so as to read the remainder of what space could not allow. Thank you. T.N. Craig
Posted by Terry N. Craig on December 26,2009 | 07:14 PM
A great story.
In answer to why they assumed there was a great sea beyond the Americas could be:
1. They, like the Portugese estimated the circumference of the earth, pretty closely. 2.From Marco Polo's report, they knew there was a great sea to the east of China. 3. Therefore,thatsea must cover the distance from China/Japan to the Americas or there might be two or more seas in between with other lands deviding them. So they showed the west coast of the Americas bounding this sea as undefined . For all they knew it might extend most of the way to China. Again,a great story, right to the end.
Posted by LA Bob on December 15,2009 | 05:06 PM
I thought it to be fascinating and insightful that the words, "those southern regions that is inhabited by more numerous peoples and animals than in our Europe, or Asia or Africa", begins to give us the initial sightings and revelations of people and animals outside of the then known continents. Such profundity in the simple written word!!
Posted by Deborah Dolsey on December 12,2009 | 11:27 AM
I have just finished reading the Smithsonian Magazine and the article by Toby Lester. Mr. Lester writes in a style that reminds me of a New York Times Best Seller. I thoroughly enjoyed the piece and could not put it down until I finished it. Thanks Mr. Lester. Let's have more!
Posted by Jim Palmer on December 12,2009 | 09:21 AM
Completely facinating, Although,even though Waldseemüller drew the map, judging from the text I think we should call it the Ringmann map.
Posted by Sean on December 10,2009 | 10:34 PM
The Waldseemuller Map looks very much like the one drawn by Piri Reis (Known as the Piri Reis Map) in 1513. His shows Antarctica's landmass free of ice. He explained that he composed his map from some 20 different maps, some of which dated back to Alexander the Great (died 323 AD) and even earlier.
Subsequent analysis of the Piri Reis Map showed it to be extremely accurate and according to some people could have only been done by viewing the earth from space.
In 1513, supposedly,North and South America as well as Antarctica had not been discovered. So how could these continents be depicted on any maps drawn up by Waldseemuller or Piri Reis.
It leads us to believe that a very intelligent race of people must have existed in our ancient and distant past.
Posted by Cecil Miller on December 9,2009 | 01:01 AM
Cristovão Colombo a portuguese natural of Cuba(in Alentejo-Portugal) discovered America at the service of the King of Spain, and he wrote the first map of the area.
I do believe that the Portuguese National Library (Torre do Tombo ) has a copy of this book, but on the area of reserves and it is not yet available as an internet copy and as with all the 15/16 th century books they do not allow us "the not illuminaty" to touch or even see it. But they are doing a fantastic job copying these kind of books so we will be able to see it soon.
I am not an expert on maps I am doing PHD on the Portuguese Caravel construction but I can try to answer any question because my latim and portuguese are much better than my english. We do have 7 years of latin and only 3 of english at school.
Merry Xmas
Posted by Francisco A. Fontes on December 9,2009 | 02:24 PM
To John Burkhart, who asked for the title of the book--it's The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of hte Earth and the Epic Story of the Map that Gave America Its Name, by Toby Lester
Posted by T.A. Frail on December 9,2009 | 01:23 PM
Thanks for an amazing article in another amazing issue of Smithsonian.
Posted by Calogero on December 9,2009 | 12:20 PM


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North Central Texas College
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North Central Texas College | |
Established | 1924 |
Type | Community college |
President | Eddie Hadlock, Ed.D. |
Admin. staff | N/A |
Location | Gainesville, Texas, USA |
Campus | Rural, 110 acres (0.45 km2) main campus |
Endowment | N/A |
Colors | Blue and white |
Mascot | Lion |
North Central Texas College (NCTC) is a community college serving Cooke County, Denton County, and Montague County, Texas.
As with many of the early community colleges, NCTC began as an extension of the local school district. In NCTC's case, a branch of the Gainesville Independent School District known as Gainesville Junior College was proposed by Superintendent Randolph Lee Clark, who previously started a junior college that later became Midwestern State University. The Gainesville college was established May 20, 1924, and held its first classes in the fall of that year.[1]
For the first 22 years of the school's existence, it shared the same building with Gainesville High School, also sharing teachers and administrators (not until 1957 were separate teachers hired for the college). In 1946 a building located next to the high school was purchased and the college had its own building.
However, by the mid-1950s the college grew to the point that sharing space with the high school was no longer practical. Local citizens passed a bond issue to build separate facilities for the college. However, discussions took place as to whether a separate entity, apart from the Gainesville ISD, should be created (including assessment of a property tax to support it). With the support of citizens such as W.T. Bonner (who donated the first 5 acres (20,000 m2) of the current campus and later sold 45 acres (182,000 m2) more to the college), Cooke County voters approved the creation of the new district, and Gainesville Junior College became Cooke County Junior College (the Junior was later dropped in the 1970s). In 1994, the institution's name was changed to North Central Texas College to reflect its increasing instructional offerings in two Denton County cities--Lewisville and Denton.
During this time, NCTC operated under a "gentlemen's agreement" with the other junior colleges, and thus no separate schools were formed in neighboring Denton and Montague Counties.
In 1992, president Ronnie Glasscock led the school to two major accomplishments. First, the "gentlemen's agreement" was codified into state law (however, neither Denton nor Montague are included in NCTC's tax base). Second, Glasscock lobbied for a name change, realizing that Cooke County College would handicap the college's effort to be a true regionally focused college. He was successful, and on June 1, 1994, the Regents voted to change the college's name to its current designation.
In January 2000, NCTC opened a branch campus in Bowie (to serve Montague County). The citizens of Bowie voted a 1/2 cent sales tax increase to build the 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m2), $2.196 million facility. NCTC also opened the Corinth campus (to serve Denton County) at the same time.
Claim to be the oldest continuously-operating Community College in Texas[edit]
A historical marker outside the Administration Building claims that NCTC is the oldest continuously operating public community college in Texas, having been approved for operations in May 1924. The claim is based on the fact that the four junior colleges that predate NCTC, have evolved into four-year institutions:
- Stephenville College started in 1893, and became a public college in 1898, but financial troubles led to its buyout by Texas A&M in 1917, and later it grew into today's Tarleton State University.
- El Paso Junior College (no relation to the current El Paso Community College) opened in 1920, but eventually became the University of Texas at El Paso.
- South Park Junior College opened in 1923, but grew into today's Lamar University.
- Wichita Falls Junior College, also opened by Randolph Clark, later became Midwestern State University.
- An additional four junior colleges (Carr-Burdette College in Sherman, Clifton College in Clifton, Gunter College in Gunter and Wesley College in Greenville) ceased operations.
- Weatherford College in Weatherford dates its history back to 1869, and can claim the title of oldest junior college in Texas. However, it began as a Masonic institution and later became a Methodist school, operating as a four-year institution until 1921 when it reorganized as a two-year school. Even so, it was operated as a private institution until 1949 when Parker County took over operations.
- Hill College opened in 1923, one year prior to NCTC, and still operates today. However, it did not operate during the 1950s.
- Jacksonville College, a junior college located in Jacksonville, Texas, opened in 1899 and has operated continuously since that time. However, it is owned by the Baptist Missionary Alliance of Texas and is not publicly funded.
NCTC operates five campuses, the main campus in Gainesville, campuses in Corinth, Bowie, and branch campuses in Graham and Flower Mound.
Organization and administration[edit]
The current president of NCTC is Dr. Eddie Hadlock, a 33-year veteran of the college. Dr. Hadlock previously served as the Director of Counseling, Registrar, Director of Continuing Education, Dean of Student Services, and Vice-President of Instruction.
As defined by the Texas Legislature, the official service area of NCTC consists of the following:[2]
- all of Cooke and Montague Counties, and
- all of Denton County excluding the cities of Frisco and The Colony, and those portions of the county included within the Carrollton-Farmers Branch, Celina, and Prosper school districts.
Academic profile[edit]
NCTC has a Lifelong Learning Division that recently held the first-ever Weld-Off with over 155 registrations and 42 participants. Known for its welding programs and state-of-the-art facility, the Lifelong Learning Division offers students a chance to go to school to learn a new trade or technique. Courses offered under Lifelong Learning consist of job skills and development, adult basic skills, computer training, and community education including English as a Second Language and GED courses.
Student life[edit]
The college athletics teams are nicknamed the Lions.
Notable people[edit]
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J. R. Towles is a baseball catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals.
- ^ "The Rich History of NCTC", North Central Texas College, Retrieved 28 July 2011.
- ^ Texas Education Code, Section 130.190, "North Central Texas College District Service Area".
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- Public universities in Texas
- North Central Texas College
- Community colleges in Texas
- Education in Cooke County, Texas
- Education in Denton County, Texas
- Education in Montague County, Texas
- Educational institutions established in 1923
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redblackapron asked: Your blog is amazing! I love to bake and always research on why certain reactions happen when you mix different ingredients together or when you cook things different ways. Most people may think that baking (or cooking) is just an art but it really is a science too! :)
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A Few Historically Bad Christmas Days
To most people Christmas is a time for celebrating the birth of their savior or as a reason to get together with loved ones for good food and drink. In general, it's a day to look forward to.
On the other hand, not everyone's Christmas turns out so well. So...before you complain about went wrong during your Christmas Day, consider these Christmases and how bad they were.
Christmas 1261: Blinded by Power
Poor John IV Lascaris, things started out well enough for him, as he was born on Dec. 25, 1250, and inherited the throne of emperor of Nicaea at the age of seven, when his father died. Unfortunately, in a plot that could be described, well, as Byzantine (get it? Nicaea was formed from fragments of the disintegrated Byzantine Empire), aristocrat Michael Palaiologos finagled his way into the court and managed to declare himself co-emperor. Michael VIII was actually John's second cousin 12 times removed or something. After Michael conquered Constantinople, though, he left John behind and then ordered him blinded on his 11th birthday. That would be Dec. 25, 1261. Being blind was a deal-breaker for being an emperor and so was deposed. Fortunately, people didn't really like this, Michael VIII was excommunicated and John became a monk named Joasaph, Michael's son lager sought his forgiveness and he eventually was recognized as a saint. Things turned out OK and all, but that birthday/Christmas in 1261 was pretty crappy.
Christmas 1621: No Games Allowed
Gov. William Bradford, leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, forbade game playing on Christmas Day in this year. Imagine if the Governator in California did that this year? There'd be a riot! But back in in the day, people actually did what their governors told them and feared not obeying. And Christmas, at this time, was a very holy day. And Bradford still hoped, at this point, for Plymouth Colony to be that Shining City on the Hill, a beacon of religious freedom – emphasis on the "religious." One might imagine that Christmas in Plymouth Colony, if you were a young one, was not so enjoyable and festive. No games for you!
Christmas 1776: A Christmas Surprise
Christmas Day this year was a turning point in the American Revolution and is remembered quite fondly by many in the U.S. who've studied their history. However, for the Hessian soldiers defeated at the Battle of Trenton, that was one lousy Christmas. On Christmas, you see, no one expected a surprise attack. OK, you might argue that no one ever expects a surprise attack, but when you're at war, you generally don't let down your guard. On Christmas, though, it was expected that everyone would take the day off from fighting and that you could let your guard down, if only for a moment. Bad idea. American Gen. George Washington was counting on that and crossed the Delaware River from Pennsylvania, surprising the Hessians (who were German soldiers of fortune, hired by the Brits to battle the upstart Colonials) and capturing almost 900 of the 1,500 men.
Christmas 1914: Lost at Sea
The S.S. Therese Heymann set sail from the Tyne in Britain on Christmas Day, with a cargo of coal. It was never seen again. Though it wasn't officially classified as "missing" until the following March, it was never heard from again shortly after setting sail. It was suspected she was one of several ships sunk by mines in the area at the time. No one ever found the wreckage or any bodies from her crew. No word if Santa hijacked the ship because he had an extra lot of naughty names on his list.
Christmas 1941: Deadly Christmas
The Battle of Hong Kong ended on Christmas Day, resulting in the surrender of the British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong – the Royal Rifles of Canada (a regiment from Quebec) and the Winnipeg Grenadiers. Of the two regiments, 290 were killed and 493 wounded, and the survivors all got to spend the rest of the war in Japanese POW Camps. I'm thinking the soldiers felt rather like the Hessians did back in 1776.
Christmas 1953: A Volcanic Eruption
Not all bad Christmases had man to blame. In 1953, activity of the Ruapehu volcano caused the worst rail disaster in New Zealand's history, with 151 people killed. A barrier of volcanic debris and ice collapsed, sending boulders, sand and other debris into the Whangaehu River, along with 1.6 million cubic meters of water from a lake. The subsequent flood lashed the piers of a rail bridge as a Wellington-Auckland passenger train was crossing. The force was too much and the piers buckled, sending the engine and six passenger carriages to plunge off the bridge. The accident happened on the night of Dec. 24, Christmas Eve. For the families of those lost in the disaster, this surely was a horrible Christmas.
Christmas 1974: Tracy Visits and Leave a Mess
Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin, Australia on Christmas Eve and Day. Almost the whole city was destroyed – more than 70 percent of the city's buildings, including 80 percent of the housing. This left more than 20,000 people homeless; 71 people died. Damage was in the hundreds of millions of (Australian) dollars. People didn't have much of a chance to mourn the loss of their Christmas gifts; they were too busy mourning the loss of the family, friends, homes and livelihoods. One might imagine the memory of this cyclone cast a pall on quite a few subsequent Christmases.
Christmas 1989: A Firing Squad for Christmas
After 15 years as president of Romania, Nicolai Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were executed at the end of a televised "trial." The two-hour trial followed a military coup, but it is apparent that he was either in complete denial of the dire situation his nation faced or he didn't care. Romanians stood in bread lines for food and Ceausescu would show up on TV talking about the high standard of living his citizens had achieved. People who believed their leader simply was unaware would send and hand him written appeals, but it became dangerous to do so, as those people soon found themselves on the wrong side of the law. Though he technically was kicked out of office through a military coup, that was merely the capper to days worth of rebellions that had spread throughout the entire nation like wildfire – through word of mouth. The members of the firing squad were so eager to do their jobs, they didn't even wait for the couple to be tied up and blindfolded before they began shooting. You'd be hard-pressed to find a Romanian today who mourns the loss of the Ceausescus.
Christmas 1990: The Third Time Was Not a Charm
Christmas Day was becoming, at this point, the biggest movie day of the year. Studios saved blockbuster releases for premieres on Christmas Day each year and many looked forward to seeing what just might be the best movie of the year six days before said year came to a close. And what movie could be expected to be more of a blockbuster than "Godfather III"? The final movie in the brilliant saga, still starring Al Pacino and with a young Andy Garcia in what promised to be a breakthrough performance. Then people saw the film. It consistently crops up on "worst movies in the history of mankind" lists. It's a good bet that the three hour crap-fest ruined more than one person's Christmas Day.
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If we are to believe the 'December 21, 2012 Doomsday' scenario, then we have already celebrated our last Christmas. But regardless of prophecy, enjoy the holiday season. History has a way of repeating itself...Lon
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Posting better-than-expected earnings, India's third largest IT exporter Wipro Ltd today reported a 28 per cent growth in its consolidated net profit for the quarter ended September 30, aided by currency depreciation and an uptick in client spending.
The city-headquartered firm posted a net profit from continuing operations of Rs 1,932.1 crore for the second quarter against Rs 1,510.5 crore in the year-ago period.
Registering its highest growth in the last 7 quarters, consolidated revenues rose by 19 per cent to Rs 10,990.7 crore in the July-September quarter this fiscal from Rs 9,235 crore in the same quarter of 2012-13 fiscal.
Wipro Chairman Azim Premji said: "There are positive indicators on the global economy. Client confidence is on the uptick and we see it reflected in our results."
In US dollars, Wipro's net profit stood at USD 309 million in the second quarter this fiscal, while consolidated revenues were at USD 1.76 billion during the quarter.
IT services revenue rose 20 per cent to Rs 10,068 crore in the second quarter. In US dollars, IT revenues rose 5.9 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) to USD 1.63 billion, whereas, sequential growth stood at 2.7 per cent.
Wipro, which does not give annual forecasts, had guided to USD 1.62-1.65 billion IT service revenue in second quarter.
"We have had the highest revenue growth over the last 7 quarters. All our verticals have grown sequentially in Q2. We have likewise seen broad based growth across customers," Wipro Ltd CEO T K Kurien told reporters here.
However, analysts said Wipro's sequential revenue growth lagged peers. TCS revenue sequentially rose 5.4 per cent in US dollar terms, Infosys 3.8 per cent and HCL 3.5 per, while, Wipro's IT revenues grew 2.7 per cent.
"The growth was lower than reported by peers...," said Kotak Securities Head PCG Research Dipen Shah.
However, in rupee terms, Wipro's revenue from operations rose quarter-on-quarter by 12.91 per cent.
Shares of Wipro today closed at Rs 514.90 apiece, up 1.67 per cent from their previous close at BSE.
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How To Make It In America: Insiders Weigh In!
HBO's How To Make It In America has spurred debate since its debut episode and as the show's first season finale draws near, talk within street fashion's real inner circle has hit fever pitch.
The show follows two enterprising twentysomethings, Ben Epstein (played by Bryan Greenberg) and Cam Calderon (Victor Rasuk) as they hustle their way through New York City, determined to achieve their version of the "American Dream" by creating a premium denim line.
On the eve of the show's finale this Sunday, we asked a group of industry insiders if they believed Ben and Cam's story is an accurate depiction of the process of creating a successful fashion brand in New York. Check their responses below.
"Hells yeah! Its about as accurate as any show has been, to this point. Some of the themes and situations that we've seen on the show, we've gone through here at FLuD (www.fludwatches.com) and at OCD (www.ocdnyc.com). In regards to OCD, the overall theme of the show is really similar to what my business partner Martin and I have gone (and are going) through—even down to our first accounts being from Tokyo when no one Stateside showed us any love.
"I'm not sure if Cam and Ben are gonna 'Make It In America' but I'm pretty sure FLuD and OCD are gonna be alright. I think if you've lived through building a brand from the basement on up, you can really appreciate what Cam and Ben are going through."
-Mel Peralta
Brand Director, FLuD Watches/Operations Director, Obsessively Chasing Dollars (OCD)
"The show is name-drop central but I'm waiting to see my man Javier Nunez (real-life skater who plays Wilfredo Gomez) get his shine! That's the only thing I like about the show.
"Starting a brand is a big hustle. I worked for a financial firm and put in 55 hours a week, while doing Mighty Healthy, as well. At times I was sleeping three hours a night. I had to learn on my own how to make tees. My lady at the time hated my guts! It also gets very tough financially. I didn't come from money like some people. I worked three-and-a-half years straight with two demanding full-time jobs. I think the show may show the fun part of it, but not the day-to-day grind."
-Ray Mate
Co-Founder, Mighty Healthy
"I have to admit, I hated the show for the first few episodes, but I do feel the plot and storyline have gotten better. The older characters (played by Luis Guzman and Martha Plimpton) definitely steal the show.
"I don't feel the storyline is realistic within our street-fashion industry. Why? First off—a cool label named Crisp? A line based around one item? A Japanese buyer purchasing t-shirts instead of the denim and placing a PO on the spot? Come on…that doesn't happen. Not in this economy. Not to mention, throwing Kid Cudi in for street credibility and then giving him barely any lines. Anyway, enough ranting—I give it a thumbs down, but I do enjoy catching and naming the downtown landmarks, haha."
-Daymon Green
Co-Owner, COA Boutique/Agency
"I think the show could be accurate. I know quite a few designers who've started brands but generally designers/owners are more artistic, reclusive and much more driven and focused [than Ben and Cam]. I love the show but as a founder/creative director, I do not think Ben nor Cam fill the shoes."
-Sergio Spitaleri
East Coast Sales, LRG
"The answer to your question is yes, I think it is accurate. I started a denim sportswear brand four years ago at the same time I was building my sales agency. We were doing domestic denim production. We went through some similar situations that they went through. Our denim didn't fall off a truck, but we did have to buy our denim in rolls and then we had to go get a pattern maker to make our first samples. From having the wealthy Jewish friend to invest, to the vintage t-shirt depot, to all the hustles, I think it is, for the most part, realistic. I think they have some 'lucky' chance meetings, but those meetings are all possible in New York."
-Dre Hayes
Co-Founder, The Foundation Showroom (G-Shock, Supra, etc)
If you're into fashion and you've been following the show, we'd love to hear your thoughts on the subject!
How To Make It In America's season finale airs 10pm this Sunday on HBO.


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http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=1901804 ... al-robbers
This guy has been running around SLC robbing various restaurants with a handgun. So I have a few questions. I'm new to CC so your answers would be appreciated. If this perp walked into the same pizza place I was in would I be justified in shooting him? would I only be justified if he directly confronted me and threatened me? what if he's threatening to kill someone else like another customer or a worker? I thought I heard in my CFP class that I was justified in using force if the perp demonstrated deadly force and I felt that my life was in danger (basically). I have the same question about being on the street (or any public place), am I only justified if MY life is threatened? Thanks for your comments. Hopefully they catch this guy quick.


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Peru - Homicide rate
Intentional homicides (per 100,000 people)
The value for Intentional homicides (per 100,000 people) in Peru was 10.32 as of 2009. As the graph below shows, over the past 5 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 11.71 in 2008 and a minimum value of 5.60 in 2004.
Definition: Intentional homicides are estimates of unlawful homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups. Intentional homicide does not include all intentional killing; the difference is usually in the organization of the killing. Individuals or small groups usually commit homicide, whereas killing in armed conflict is usually committed by fairly cohesive groups of up to several hundred members and is thus usually excluded.
Source: UN Office on Drugs and Crime's International Homicide Statistics database.
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Year | Value |
2004 | 5.60 |
2005 | 11.09 |
2006 | 11.27 |
2007 | 10.45 |
2008 | 11.71 |
2009 | 10.32 |
Topic: Public Sector Indicators
Sub-Topic: Conflict & fragility


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About eight weeks ago, we featured the story A ModJOBs modified motorcycle on eBay Stories, talking about how the modJOBs2 team was going to modify a Yamaha V Star 950 cruiser into a one-of-a-kind custom bagger, chronicling the process in eight weekly webisodes. The team has completed the transformation of the motorcycle, and it is now up for auction to benefit the National Motorcycle Association Safety Fund.
Which brings us to today's remarkable listing, the newly revealed, one-of-a-kind modJOBS 2012 Yamaha V Star 950 Cruiser:
As you can see, a lot of incredible custom work has been put into this beauty. If you haven't followed the show from day one, don't worry: there are links at the bottom of this post to each and every episode. And it would take watching them all to witness all the painstaking work that has gone into making this motorcycle what it is today.
Aside from the final episode where the team reveals the motorcycle, our favorite episode is the one featuring the famous motorcyclist and biker hangout, the Rock Store, where we first meet Last Comic Standing winner (and motorcycle enthusiast) Alonzo Bodden. The Rock Store, located along the famed Mulholland Highway, halfway between Malibu and Calabasas, caters to celebrities and tourists alike. The Rock Store site notes that it wouldn't be surprising to run into Jay Leno, who comes to show off some of his more interesting vehicles and chat with folks in the parking lot, or even Arnold Schwarzenegger. Here is the episode:
As you can see from the video, it appears to be a friendly gathering spot, and you would certainly fit right in if you bagged the new Yamaha custom motorcycle and showed up there. And what a story you could tell about how it was modified!
Aside from the fact that the motorcycle looks and sounds great, we appreciate some of the innovative safety features in the headlight and the taillights. As you can see from this episode, the newly installed taillights blink when you put on the breaks, increasing your visibility and indicating to the people behind you that the bike is slowing down. We only wish they could include the same kind of feature on cars' taillights, maybe with increasingly rapid blinking until the car comes to a complete stop. [Editor's note: ModJOBs 3, anyone? I would be happy to volunteer my car to be modded.]
In case you missed any episodes, or if you want to jump around, here is the complete episode guide:
Episode 1: Sparks Fly
Episode 2: The Right Woman for the Job
Episode 3: Let's Get Loud
Episode 4: Let's Get LOUDER
Episode 5: Get a Grip!
Episode 6: Fast and Funny
Episode 7: Chrome Sweet Chrome
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The day before yesterday, after unloading the cargo he was transporting from France to Kosovo, for the local thermal-electric power plants, at about 10 o'clock he ended up stuck between two barricades on the main street in Obilic. He turned into one of the side streets, but ended up face to face with a large group of ethnic Albanian demonstrators.
"Everything happened extremely fast and I had no chance to do anything. They opened the door on my truck, pulled me out, threw me on the pavement and started hitting me. They were hitting me all over. Only my thick overcoat saved me from serious injuries," Panov says.
At one point he managed to get away from the mob and started running away.
"When I turned around I realized that three or four of them were running after me. I entered a health center, but they followed me inside and continued to beat me. The Police observed all of this but failed to react. Even worse, I suffered the worst beating inside the health center. At one point I was convinced that I was going to die, but then one of the patients in the hospital interceded and carried me with the director to one of the offices," Panov continues. Visible injuries can be seen on his head, chest and legs, which hurt the most, he says.
After receiving first aid at the health center, Panov attempted to return to his truck. However, he was told that the vehicle had first been driven away and then totally wrecked. Then, Panov was moved to a more secure location in Pristina.
Yesterday morning Panov crossed the border between Macedonia and Kosovo, with the assistance of the Macedonian police. By 12 noon he was in Probistip, where he was welcomed by his loved ones, wife Svetlana and two minor children, son Robert and daughter Natasa.
"I heard about the incident on the radio news and since then have been waiting for any information about his condition," wife Svetlana relates through tears.
In Obilic, besides being beaten, Panov was also robbed. He lost his complete documentation, both his personal documents and papers for the vehicle. Also, 500 Euros were stolen from the truck.


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For most of its history, Korea was an independent kingdom, or at least an autonomous kingdom under Chinese influence. This came to an end in 1910, when Japan annexed all of Korea. At the end of World War II in 1945, the 38° parallel was established as the dividing line between U.S. and Soviet zones of occupation, and in 1948 separate civil administrations were established in the two halves of the country. The Korean War (1950-53) ended in a draw, with the armistice line falling close to the prewar 38° line. The Republic of Korea (ROK), commonly called South Korea, occupies the Korean peninsula south of the armistice line. This page covers lighthouses of the northern part of South Korea's province of North Gyeongsang (Gyeongsangbuk-do), including the counties of Uljin and Yeongdeok. (There are additional pages for the cities of Pohang and Gyeongju in the southern half of the province and for lighthouses of the islands of Ulleungdo and Dokdo, which are also part of the province.) This east coast of Korea faces the East Sea (commonly called the Sea of Japan in the West). Most of it is rugged and scenic, but there are some sandy beaches between the headlands. Although there are some famous and historic lighthouses on this coast, many of the more modern lights are not well known. Navigational aids in the ROK are regulated by the Ministry of Land, Transport, and Maritime Affairs (MLTM). MLTM also operates the major coastal lights, but management of harbor lighthouses is in the hands of local port authorities. In Korean, the word for a lighthouse is donghae (등대); dan is a cape, do is an island, and hang is a harbor . ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. Admiralty numbers are from volume M of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. U.S. NGA List numbers are from Publication 112. |
Uljin County Lighthouses
Wangdalcho Light, East Sea Korea Hydrographic and Oceanographic Administration photo |
Yeongdeok County Lighthouses
Information available on lost lighthouses:
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Adjoining pages: North: Gangneung Area | East: Ulleungdo and Dokdo | South: Pohang Area
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Posted October 29, 2007. Checked and revised February 15, 2013. Lighthouses: 27. Site copyright 2013 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


text: Journal of Near-Death Studies, volume 9, issue 1 Near-Death Experiences and the Measurement of Blood Gases Gliksman, M. D., & Kellehear, A. Although cerebral anoxia is not thought to be responsible for triggering near-death experiences (NDEs), the issue is not so clear in the case of hypercapnia. Detection of normal blood gases in Michael Sabom's (1982) case study seems to be the major reply to suggestions that hypercapnia may have a causal role in NDEs. We argue, however, that routine arterial measures of blood gases are not a reliable indicator of cerebral levels.


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You want high-tech gizmos? You get those, too. Three of this noisy epic's sleek, missile-loaded stealth aircraft are operated by movie stars wearing chocolate-colored, skin-tight flight suits -- the racially diverse, gender-correct trio of Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel and Jamie Foxx. But the fourth plane, nicknamed "EDI" (pronounced Eddie, short for Extreme Deep Invader), is a heavily armed supersonic drone with a mind of its own -- the grandson, technologically and philosophically, of HAL, the smarty-pants computer that went berserk in 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968. A quick learner with no conscience, the spiffy new aircraft flips out after it gets struck by lightning, starts blasting heavy metal in its cockpit, and sets out on a reign of terror the human Navy folks don't approve of.
In this case, though, the old issue of man versus machine doesn't entirely satisfy the agenda of director Rob Cohen (XXX, The Fast and the Furious) and screenwriter W.D. Richter (Needful Things, Brubaker). They send their dashing pilots to Thailand for the express purposes of filling a tiny blue bikini with Ms. Biel's extraordinary fuselage and giving Foxx an opportunity to romance a local beauty who speaks no English but probably saw him in Ray. Meanwhile, Lucas' Lt. Ben Gannon, all blue-eyed and chiseled and full of noble thoughts, finds himself falling for his wingman, er, wingwoman, Kara Wade (Biel) -- she's one helluva pilot, she's deeply concerned about avoiding civilian casualties while she's strafing a shipment of nukes in Tajikistan, and Ben has seen her in that bathing suit.
There's only one bad guy in this movie's Navy: a self-absorbed captain played by Sam Shepard, who has rushed EDI into combat for his own purposes. Everybody else is dedicated to the cause of freedom but not above drinking $12 martinis and making out at the bar between air strikes against rogue nations. In fact, one of the great things about the crisis-a-minute pace of this elaborate fantasy is that its team of airborne warriors seems to be everywhere at once -- catapulted off the flight deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln somewhere in the Pacific one minute, heading off EDI's unauthorized attack on a cold-fusion plant in Siberia the next. The Korean peninsula. Myanmar. The starkly mountainous republics of the former Soviet Union. A secret base in the wilds of Alaska. They're all in a day's work -- apparently an hour's work -- for our worthies.
I'm still trying to figure out how Lt. Ben gets from Alaska to North Korea in what appears to be three minutes and, once there, how he manages to find his downed lady love, then escape Kim Jong Il's none-too-hospitable nation, despite the destruction of both of their airplanes and the fact that they're surrounded by the entire North Korean army. Not even Tom Cruise, aka Maverick, on his best day could pull off such miracles. Oh, well. Let's just credit good old American ingenuity -- or Hollywood's irrepressible desire to fill our heads with fantastic nonsense -- and move on.


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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Declaring immigration reform a "moral imperative," Mitt Romney on Thursday laid out a broad vision for increasing legal immigration both for businesses and for family reunification, but also vowed to step up border enforcement and complete "a high-tech fence" along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Mr. Romney again refused to say whether he would allow President Obama's recent order halting deportations of young illegal immigrants to remain in place while he and Congress worked on a reform bill.
In a major speech to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO), meeting at Disney World for their annual conference, the Republicans' presumptive presidential nominee tried to highlight areas of general agreement on immigration — such as expanding legal avenues, fixing long wait times and trying to attract highly skilled immigrants.
But he shied away from broad calls for a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Instead, he said, he would try to find ways to discourage illegal immigration.
He urged Hispanic voters to take a critical look at Mr. Obama's entire record on immigration rather than be swayed by the stopgap deportation decision that the president made last week. Mr. Romney said the move was timed to win votes, not to become serious policy.
Read More at The Washington Times. By Stephen Dinan.
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GAINFORD - More than 100 Gainford residents forced from their homes by last weekend's train derailment were allowed to return home Tuesday afternoon, after Parkland County lifted a mandatory evacuation order in place since Saturday.
The 126 registered evacuees, including the Mrdjenovich brothers, were allowed to return home at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, more than 80 hours after they were first evacuated.
Milos, Milan and Brody Mrdjenovich, who have a ranch next to the wreckage, finally got a first-hand look at the site Tuesday afternoon.
Nine cars of liquefied propane and four cars carrying crude oil derailed about 1 a.m. Saturday, triggering an explosion and fire in the hamlet about 85 kilometres west of Edmonton. No one was injured in the blast.
According to the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, the 134-car train "experienced an undesired emergency brake application" while travelling westward into Gainford, causing cars 13 through 25 to derail.
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Brody Mrdjenovich described the strong smell of gas still in the air at the site.
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The brothers have about 60 bison, 130 cattle and 30 horses on a ranch south of the derailment. They worried Tuesday about their animals, who they said were spooked following the weekend's events.
A fence lining their ranch was destroyed, and the brothers hope CN will be able to quickly replace it.
Earlier Tuesday, Parkland County said a second attempt by CN crews to conduct a controlled burn of propane tanks damaged in the derailment appeared to be working. One tank car still contained about 68,100 litres of propane Monday evening, but less than two hours later the car was flaring.
With the rail cars no longer on fire, CN said rail service was expected to resume Tuesday night.
The section of Yellowhead Highway near the derailment site remained closed, however, as Alberta Transportation and CN workers cleared tonnes of sand put down to protect asphalt on the road. Parkland County Mayor Rod Shaigec said the highway would be reopened "when it is safe to do so."
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C.J. Williams may have been one of the most underappreciated recruits in recent Maryland prep history. A dynamic tailback on offense and an unblockable terror on defense, he was perhaps the driving player behind Calvert Hall's 10-2 season in 2011. But when a scholarship offer failed to materialize from his "dream" school, his recruitment took a dramatic turn.
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It didn't take long for one dream to give way to another. Ironically enough, his new dream took shape just a few miles from the university which passed him over.
"Right when I left that Army-Navy game I knew I wanted to go to Navy," Williams told
"I said 'that's the school I want to go to!' Everyone is just so tight knit, and I just wanted to be a part of that when I went down there. It was awesome," he added.
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Have you always liked Navy? When was it that you really got serious about the possibility of attending the Academy?
I've always liked Navy, just with their tradition and everything. When I went down there for the Army-Navy game everyone was just so into it. With the 'Brotherhood' and everything it made me want to play for the team so bad. With the fans and everything -- the looks on the players' faces -- it was just electric. I just want to be a part of the Brotherhood and play for them.
Did the 'Brotherhood' remind you at all of what you came from at Calvert Hall?
It definitely reminded me a little bit of Calvert Hall and how we all play together and stuff like that. That's one of the reasons I'm going to Navy, because it's very similar to Calvert Hall in everyone being so close to each other, and everyone has each others' backs – in everything they do.
Did you know much about Navy when you were growing up and in high school? Did you have any Navy service members in your family?
I didn't have too much experience with Navy. My Uncle went to Navy but besides that I didn't have too much experience with them. Since sophomore year they have been recruiting me and I've been to a few games here and there, but besides that, not too much. But I've always liked (Navy).
I know you were recruited by Napoleon Sykes, who is no longer at Navy but was responsible for recruiting Maryland. Was he an important factor in your recruitment?
I became really close to him. He went to Gilman, and has this really friendly vibe that you can just play around and stuff like that. When he left I was kind of like, "uh, oh," but coach (Danny) O'Rourke has been awesome and me and him have gained a great relationship. It hasn't been too tough moving on.
You were a standout on both sides of the ball, and could fit into a fullback or a safety mold in college. Do you know where Navy will you?
I just actually talked to coach O'Rourke (last week), and he said the coaches have had arguments over where I'm going to play and stuff like that. Honestly, it doesn't matter where I play, but they are saying A-back, B-Back, outside linebacker, or safety. We'll see.
Do you think you're built in the mold of a Navy fullback (B-back)? They have quite a tradition…
I'm definitely built around that mold. I am a tough player and I love contact and love to do anything to lay it on the line for my team. I'm the type of player where in clutch situations and times of need for a big-play I can give you that big-play. I can fill that mold in B-back if they need me there.
Tell me about this 'Williams Leap' I've seen in your highlight film. When did you start – quite literally – jumping over the heads of defenders?
(Laughs.) I've been doing that ever since I've been playing rec. It's always just been instinctual. I've always been a bit bigger and (defenders) have always tried to hit me low. Ever since I was young I'd say I was tired of getting hit low and would just hop over people. You don't really plan it out – it just kind of happens. It's all instinctual.
Did it hurt not to get an offer from Maryland? Does that give you a chip on your shoulder going into your college career at Navy?
It definitely adds fuel to the fire and stuff like that. There were definitely a lot of schools that were playing with me and stuff, and I definitely use that as motivation. I'm glad Navy was one of those schools that gave me an opportunity, but it definitely hurts not getting an offer from my home state school. But it's no big deal. If it came down to Navy and Maryland I would go to Navy, any day of the week.
What was it like to have such an accomplished career and yet only get one FBS offers? Why do you think so many schools overlooked you?
It's tough. I had some I-AA offers but besides that a lot of the I-A schools were saying they didn't know where to play me. They told me I was kind of like a tweener type between a linebacker and a safety. In high school I played middle linebacker but they had no film on me as safety, so that's why a lot of schools were like 'I don't know if you can play safety for us.' I didn't fit the 'measurables' for a linebacker because I'm only 210 pounds, so a lot of schools we telling me I'd have to add on some weight and stuff like that. But it is what it is, and it just made me work harder.
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Plans for the deal between Shenhua and developer HydroTasmania were announced in September last year, but financial terms were not disclosed.
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