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Between working from home, working out from home, having a good walking route with Ginger from my home, unless it's the grocery store, I barely leave the house.
Yesterday was an anomaly. I went to three stores. Each had their own "incident".
Bed Bath & Beyond:
We all get bombarded with their coupons. I've never once given them my address and yet somehow, they find me. I swear their coupons are the first piece of junk mail to come each and every time I've moved. I hoard them in my car so they're always with me when I actually need to go there (fyi: they totally don't adhere to the expiration dates. I used one from last August yesterday). Yesterday, I needed a new scrub brush (Ulysses broke ours trying to clean a muffin pan), a new spatula and a new over the shower caddy thing. 3 items and 3 coupons in my car. Destiny. Or so I thought. I had two $5 off coupons and one 20% off a single item coupon. Turns out you can't combine the $5 off ones with the 20% one. So I said "ok, do two separate transactions then". Makes sense, no? Bitch looked at me, VISIBLY rolled her eyes, sighed and said "are you really that cheap?" I KID YOU NOT. Apparently, I'm just a target for unbelievably rude comments lately. Usually, I'm pretty witty and quick on my toes with stuff like this. This time….I had nothing. My response was something like "um, can you do 2 transactions or not?" Lame. I've replayed that conversation and all the things I could've said about 58 times since.
Now that we're past the frost (I hope), I was on a mission to at least get my herbs planted before leaving for Napa on Wednesday. So I walk into the garden center pushing one of those lumber carts since that was the only cart left and make my way to the potting soil. I load a 50 lb. bag onto the cart and then aimlessly push it around looking for the potted herbs. They're nowhere to be found. So I ask the cash register person and she says they're out in the front (past the outside checkout area). Oh, ok. I start pushing my cart with the potting soil outside to go get my herbs when she says:
"Um, where do you think you're going with that?"
Me: "outside, to get the herbs I just asked you about" (totally confused at what the issue is).
Her: "well, not without paying!"
Me: "you want me to pay for the potting soil, then go outside and get the herbs, come back in here and pay again?"
Her: "yes."
Me: "why the hell are the herbs OUTSIDE of the paying area to begin with?"
Her: "I don't make the rules" (picture head swaying, lips smacking, and finger pointing all at the same time)
Me: "You've got to be kidding. I'm clearly not running off with this potting soil in a friggin lumber cart! I just want to simply add the herbs to my cart and come back in here and pay all at once."
Her: "You do what you like miss, but I'll call a manager if you push that cart outside."
Me: "Go ahead."
All I could think about was the scene in Father of the Bride with the hot dog buns. I was George.
Luckily, I didn't end up in jail having to apologize to my spouse through bars before getting bailed out and the manager (who she did call) basically put her in her place and agreed with me on the ridiculousness of the whole situation and the placement of the herbs in the first place.
And since that wasn't enough action for the day, I made a final stop at Target.
No crazy employee interactions here just the pathetic, saddening fact that I think I'm the only person on this planet that walks in there and cannot for the life of me, find anything decent to wear that looks mildly appropriate for my age. I TRY to spend money in there and just can't. I know some people would wish for this dilemma but being on the other side of the spectrum I can assure you it sucks. I want to buy a bunch of cheap clothes and cute outfits but every single time I head to that dressing room, I walk out empty handed. It all just looks like 12 year old clothes on me. And so I left with a cheap pair of sunglasses, a t-shirt and the realization that I will not look cute in Napa next week. But I'll most likely be drunk the whole time so it probably won't matter.
All this to say, I'm better off staying home, holed up in my kitchen, talking to my dog and making almond butter and jelly smoothies.
They don't talk back or make me feel fashionably challenged.
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Oh you poor thing! When I go to Lowes or Home Dept, I tell them I'm going outside with the cart. I'm afraid what happened to you would happen to me! Hey I'm with you about Target, I never find clothes that fit me, maybe a couple t-shirts but thats about it. the clothes are either to young or there to old! Don't worry about shopping, you have the outlet stores in Napa! have a fun trip and your smoothie looks awesome!!!!
Napa!!! I'm so jealous! Target has gone downhill lately. Their pants don't fit me at all. Not that most do, but the waistbands come up to my boobs!
I'm with you on the Target dilemma… same with Forever 21. But somehow my 30 yr old friends can pull off a cute outfit. I'm so awkward.
Hope you have a great trip! : )
I'll go shopping with you :)
I thought of you the WHOLE time! I was like "I need Melissa, I need Melissa…" And then, I had a dream about you and your wedding last night! It was the same night as my brother's and I could only go to the church part for yours and I was so upset! Clearly we need to get together :) Miss you!
Bed Bath and Beyond incident: don't you hate it when you are caught off guard and not able to respond and defend yourself from total rudeness? Aaargh! I always think of witty, passive aggressive, make me feel self satisfied comments AFTER an incident happens. I hate it!
I'm glad you were able to put that Lowe's lady in her place.
Target… Everything they have is cute, but it's too little girly or teenager cute. These days, all I buy there are their Champion sports bras.
Oh goodness! This Lowes incident is the reason that I send my husband to home improvement stores. I do 98% of our shopping, but those trips are left up to him. Glad you had this almond butter and jelly smoothie to recover, it sounds absolutely refreshing!
Girl. Omg. First the BB&B employees here actually help me save the most, i.e be the most cheap <– cannot believe!! she said that to you. They sort my coupons for me and combine them so that I can maximize the savings.
The lumber cart & 50 lb bag of soil, b/c that would be discreet to just run off with and steal…sure…
And Target. I have those days at Target. I have success with their sports bras, random tshirts here and there, but never can I go buy a whole outfit or anything from there and not when I "need" to or have an occasions. At those times, I'll never find anything cute. Murphy's Law.
Have fun in Napa…and pour a glass of wine, now! After all that!
I've been having annoying interactions with the employees at a local health food store. People are so weird. You shouldn't work in customer service if don't like it or don't like people. At any rate, it's probably nothing that smoothie can't fix. Looks good, I've just been making chocolate smoothies lately. All chocolate, all the time.
Oh my gosh, how ridiculous! I would've given attitude right back at her. Crazy. I know what you mean with target though, a lot of times the clothes do NOT fit me right. Especially the pants! It's either a hit or miss there.
Oh my… As bad as I feel for you with the rude comments and things, your stories are so entertaining, lol. People are ridiculous! I love the smoothie. Usually I do peanut butter in something similar but I've been loving almond butter more than usual lately. Gotta try it :D
While reading this post I had a flashback to you trying to take an apple through customs in the Bahamas.
This is a great reminder of why I hate to leave the house! I think my husband and I are slowly becoming hermits. Amazon Prime is a life saver, lol.
But, man, I would have told the manager at Bed Bath about that comment! SOOO awful!! And I totally know what you mean about Target. It's like they have clothes for older women and then teens and there is nothing for everyone in between!
This smoothie looks so good! I would have needed to add some booze after a day like that! Have fun in Napa! My husband and I got married in Sonoma and wine country will always have a special place in my heart!
I find BB&B to be really hit or miss, although when I bought my Vitamix there, the cashier gave me an extra $100 off…just because. That was pretty awesome.
I cannot shop at Target for clothes. I want to, but I just never find anything other than sports bras that actually fit/seem like they won't disintegrate after one wear. I'm the same way with stores like TJ Maxx, although that has more to do with the shopping experience there. I can't handle digging through everything, the fluorescent lights, bad music. It stresses me out.
OMG I literally laughed out loud reading this post. I hate when stupid, rude people ruin your shopping experience, but hooray for the manager at Lowe's putting that employee in her place. I hope that you're drunk the whole time in Napa. It'd be a shame if you weren't.
The perfect sandwich in a smoothie, I'll say YES!
What ever happened to "the customer is always right"???! That's craziness, I would've walked out and gone somewhere else out of principle! Or…at least I like to say that I would've ;)
I always get that eye roll w hen I ask for separate transactions. Why do they bombard you with coupons if they don't want you to use them when it's convenient for you?!
Made this smoothie this morning minus the jelly and it was awesome! xoxo
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I have a challenge for all of you today! That challenge is to rid your pantry and refrigerator of Sodium Benzoate. This chemical preservative is used to help inhibit the growth of bacteria and fungus in acidic products. It's the cheapest mold inhibitor on the market, which is why it is so often used. Acidic foods tend to grow bacteria, mold and yeast more easily than non-acidic foods, so the Sodium Benzoate extends the shelf life. It is widely used in foods, beverages, cosmetics, dental care products, and pharmaceuticals. I even found it in Hyland's Homeopathic Cough syrup. It is also found in a lot of food in restaurants. For example, Subway's jalapeños, pickles, banana peppers and teriyaki glaze use Sodium Benzoate as a preservative.
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My weekend consisted of lots of reading on the balcony.
I felt like we were on a "Vacation Run" the entire way. The weather was as close to perfect as it gets and we ran along the bay and the ocean with palm trees almost the entire way. Yes, we do live here but sometimes it still feels like we're on vacation. I hope that feeling never leaves us. With little reminders like that Bears game, maybe it never will.
We left this a little over a year ago...
For this... (our run yesterday)
The Bears won by the way, and apparently it's a really big deal or something. Go Bears!
After a weekend spent on the beach, I am in relaxation mode and ready for this little thing called taper. Yesterday was our last 20 miler and I still have a hard time believing I will be able to run the entire 26.2 miles. My legs are toast during that last mile. How on earth will I be able to run an additional 6.2, at the same pace nonetheless?
I have been told time and time again to trust my training. I will apparently be able to pull 6.2 extra miles out of my butt some how. I know I can run the extra 6.2, but can I keep the same pace? That's my goal.
Has anyone else experienced this self-doubt and worry about completing the entire distance?
How did you overcome it?
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It was difficult coming back to reality today and having to say good-bye to my pretend vacation. Sigh.
After watching sunsets like this over the ocean every night, our regular life feels slightly less exciting.
Cell phone pictures don't do it justice!
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Frida's in the closet. Luckily, I'm not...
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LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), a second generation dark matter experiment, got a big boost when the Department of Energy and National Science Foundation selected it as one of three experiments that will be funded in the next-generation dark matter search. LZ will build on the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment, which has been operating at the 4850 Level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility since 2012, and on the ZEPLIN dark matter program in the United Kingdom, which pioneered the use of these types of detectors underground.
"We emerged from a very intense competition," said Daniel McKinsey, professor of physics at Yale and a spokesperson for LUX. "We have the most sensitive detector in the world, with LUX. LZ will be hundreds of times more sensitive. It's gratifying to see that our approach is being validated."
Construction on the supersized detector is scheduled to begin in 2016, with a commissioning date of 2018. Plans for LZ have been in the works for several years.
"This is great news for the future of Dark Matter exploration and the Sanford Lab," said Mike Headley, Executive Director of the South Dakota Science and Technology Authority. "The LZ experiment will play a key role in the future of the lab and we're pleased that the DOE selected the experiment. It certainly will extend the state's investment in this world-class facility."
Rick Gaitskell, Hazard Professor of Physics at Brown, is a founding member of LZ and also co-spokesperson for the LUX experiment.
"The go-ahead from DOE and NSF is a major event," Gaitskell said. "The LZ experiment will continue the liquid xenon direct dark matter search program at Sanford Lab, which we started with the operation of LUX in 2013. LUX will run until 2016 when we will replace it with LZ, which can provide a further improvement in sensitivity of two orders of magnitude due to its significant increase in size."
Even if LUX makes a dark matter detection before LZ is up and running, LZ will still be necessary to confirm the detection and fully characterize the nature of WIMPS, Gaitskell said.
"This green light is a clear indication of the value the agencies see, not only in all the preparatory work that has gone into LZ, but also in the existing accomplishment of LUX and Sanford Lab these past few years," said Simon Fiorucci, a research scientist at Brown who is the science coordinator for LUX and simulations coordinator for LZ. "LZ will be timed so that it is ready to start operations when LUX delivers its final results and reaches the limits of its technology. It will be a very natural transition."
Harry Nelson, professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara and spokesperson for the LZ Collaboration, said, "We still have a lot of work to do. Basically, we got the green light to go the next green light, then the next green light." Still, he continued, "Everyone is excited."
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The Sanford Lab is located at the former Homestake gold mine, which was a physics landmark long before being converted into a dedicated science facility. Nuclear chemist Ray Davis earned a share of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2002 for a solar neutrino experiment he installed 4,850 feet underground in the mine.
Homestake closed in 2003, but the company donated the property to South Dakota in 2006 for use as an underground laboratory. That same year, philanthropist T. Denny Sanford donated $70 million to the project. The South Dakota Legislature also created the South Dakota Science and Technology Authority to operate the lab. The state Legislature has committed more than $40 million in state funds to the project, and South Dakota also obtained a $10 million Community Development Block Grant to help rehabilitate the facility.
In 2007, after the National Science Foundation named Homestake as the preferred site for a proposed national Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL), the South Dakota Science and Technology Authority (SDSTA) began reopening the former gold mine.
In December 2010, the National Science Board decided not to fund further design of DUSEL. However, in 2011 the Department of Energy, through the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, agreed to support ongoing science operations at Sanford Lab, while investigating how to use the underground research facility for other longer-term experiments. The SDSTA, which owns Sanford Lab, continues to operate the facility under that agreement with Berkeley Lab.
The first two major physics experiments at the Sanford Lab are 4,850 feet underground in an area called the Davis Campus, named for the late Ray Davis. The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment is housed in the same cavern excavated for Ray Davis's experiment in the 1960s. In October 2013, after an initial run of 80 days, LUX was determined to be the most sensitive detector yet to search for dark matter—a mysterious, yet-to-be-detected substance thought to be the most prevalent matter in the universe. The Majorana Demonstrator experiment, also on the 4850 Level, is searching for a rare phenomenon called "neutrinoless double-beta decay" that could reveal whether subatomic particles called neutrinos can be their own antiparticle. Detection of neutrinoless double-beta decay could help determine why matter prevailed over antimatter. The Majorana Demonstrator experiment is adjacent to the original Davis cavern.
Another major experiment, the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE)—a collaboration with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) and Sanford Lab, is in the preliminary design stages. The project got a major boost last year when Congress approved and the president signed an Omnibus Appropriations bill that will fund LBNE operations through FY 2014. Called the "next frontier of particle physics," LBNE will follow neutrinos as they travel 800 miles through the earth, from FermiLab in Batavia, Ill., to Sanford Lab.
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What do you know about such an incredible plant as aloe vera? The history of it is very long. It had grown only on the African continent before it moved to Asia, Europe and, of course, our houses. They were the ancient people who first discovered the useful properties of this plant and started to use them for medical properties.
They noticed that the liquid of this succulent is very good at curing wounds and burns. Gradually they started to use this liquid externally for the treatment of different diseases. Modern scientists proved that the content of aloe is very rich in vital elements. The thick extract of this plant consists of 96% of water and 4% of useful nutrients.
They include anthraglycosides, resinous substances ( up to 20 %), aloin, mineral substances (potassium, phosphorus, chlorine, zinc, calcium), essential oils, organic connections (glucose, cholesterol, protein, salicylic acid, triglycerides). The protein is high in 18 amino acids and vitamins A, C, В2, В3, В6, В12, Е.
Benefits of this plant
Benefits for skin
This beverage improves the quality of skin and its complexion that's why you can often meet in various beauty products. As it has been already mentioned it is recommended for curing cuts and burns as well as for relieving sunburns.
Digestive Health
This natural liquid is a real helping hand for our digestion. The health of the digestive system influences the process of absorption of the nutrients got from the food in the blood. This succulent promotes better absorption of these substancesin the intestine.
Anti-inflammatory Benefits
This plant has several substances having an analgesic and anti-inflammatory impact on the body. That's why using this plant improves the condition of those suffering from the pains.
This succulent can propose people lot of way of it use and it's a real pity when you it only for solving skin problems like wounds and burns. The most valuable part of it is thick liquid inside the leaves. You can extract it yourselves or buy it in the shops.
If it's in its pure form you may not like its taste much since it may seem bitter. But it's not a reason for giving up this attempt. There are lots of recipes for aloe vera smoothies which include other useful fruit and vegetables which not only improve its taste but double its positive impact on our body.
Aloe Vera Smoothie Recipes
Recipe № 1
2 oranges
aloe vera juice – ½ cup
Juice two oranges and mix with aloe.
Recipe № 2
1 Cucumber
1 Lemon
1 Apple
Aloe vera juice – ½ cup
1. Juice the fruit and vegetable
2. Add aloe to the mixture, and blend
Recipe № 3
kale – 4 leaves
chard – 4 leaves
fresh parsley – ½ bunch
aloe vera juice – ½ cup
dandelion greens – ½ bunch
1 banana
3 pears
3 cups water
Recipe № 4
aloe vera – ½ cup
Lemon (juice)
Pinch of salt
1. Blend lemon, aloe vera juice , water, ginger, sugar and salt.
2. Filter the liquid from the remnants. Now it' ready to serve.
Recipe № 5
Chopped tomatoes – 2 cups
tomato juice – 1/2 cup
apple juice – 1/4 cup
chopped carrots – ½ cup
celery, chopped – 1/4 cup
hot sauce to taste
aloe vera juice – ½ cup
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Dummies guide to the latest "Hockey Stick" controversy
MBH98 were particularly interested in whether the tree ring data showed significant differences from the 20th century calibration period, and therefore normalized the data so that the mean over this period was zero. As discussed above, this will emphasize records that have the biggest differences from that period (either positive of negative). Since the underlying data have a 'hockey stick'-like shape, it is therefore not surprising that the most important PC found using this convention resembles the 'hockey stick'. There are actual two significant PCs found using this convention, and both were incorporated into the full reconstruction.
4) Does using a different convention change the answer?
As discussed above, a different convention (MM05 suggest one that has zero mean over the whole record) will change the ordering, significance and number of important PCs. In this case, the number of significant PCs increases to 5 (maybe 6) from 2 originally. This is the difference between the blue points (MBH98 convention) and the red crosses (MM05 convention) in the first figure. Also PC1 in the MBH98 convention moves down to PC4 in the MM05 convention. This is illustrated in the figure on the right, the red curve is the original PC1 and the blue curve is MM05 PC4 (adjusted to have same variance and mean). But as we stated above, the underlying data has a hockey stick structure, and so in either case the 'hockey stick'-like PC explains a significant part of the variance. Therefore, using the MM05 convention, more PCs need to be included to capture the significant information contained in the tree ring network.
This figure shows the difference in the final result whether you use the original convention and 2 PCs (blue) and the MM05 convention with 5 PCs (red). The MM05-based reconstruction is slightly less skilful when judged over the 19th century validation period but is otherwise very similar. In fact any calibration convention will lead to approximately the same answer as long as the PC decomposition is done properly and one determines how many PCs are needed to retain the primary information in the original data.
5) What happens if you just use all the data and skip the whole PCA step?
This is a key point. If the PCs being used were inadequate in characterizing the underlying data, then the answer you get using all of the data will be significantly different. If, on the other hand, enough PCs were used, the answer should be essentially unchanged. This is shown in the figure below. The reconstruction using all the data is in yellow (the green line is the same thing but with the 'St-Anne River' tree ring chronology taken out). The blue line is the original reconstruction, and as you can see the correspondence between them is high. The validation is slightly worse, illustrating the trade-off mentioned above i.e. when using all of the data, over-fitting during the calibration period (due to the increase number of degrees of freedom) leads to a slight loss of predictability in the validation step.
6) So how do MM05 conclude that this small detail changes the answer?
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Anyway, whilst we're on the topic of dragons here, has anyone got any valid information on komodo dragons, and do they breathe fire or not?!
Originally posted by The Godfather of Conspira
Can anyone say... BS?
Don't worry guys, I saw a dragon too! He was in a cave near my house, guarding all this treasure, and I felt like plunderin' so I walked up to the cave and out comes this HUGE, Red Dragon, and he's breathin' fire and roarin' all over the place. So I try to pinch this nice-lookin' diamond, but I wound up with 1st-Degree burns all over my body, but I just walked it off. Anyway they're real alright, if you see a cave near your house, don't go into it...
*Thy Moderator, descend down from thine divine heavens, and place the thy great "lock thread" spell upon thine echanted, BS topic*
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An attempt by a country to hold onto some weird fetish-like archaic revival.
Originally posted by moonbeam13
Dragons do exsist they are just no longer on this plane. humans became to corrupt and them being so noble so to speak no longer wanted to physicaly indure humans pressence. although i have never seen one myself i have heard of those who had one of my books danceing with dragons is about a man who can see into the astral plane and sees them he also includes others who have seen them.


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The Yearsley Group
Yearsley Group is leading the way in frozen foods via its two divisions: logistics and food sales.
Yearsley Logistics is the UK's largest logistics service provider in the frozen food sector, as well as offering ambient, chilled and freight forwarding solutions.
It has 13 sites nationally, a total capacity of 335,000 pallets and a fleet of over 300 temperature controlled vehicles delivering nationwide.
Yearsley Food markets and supplies a full range of innovative frozen products to customers in all sectors of the marketplace including export. It also offers exclusive imported frozen foods under its Belfield brand and IcePak, the Group's specialist frozen seafood supplier serves the wholesale and restaurant market.
An industry recognised organisation, Yearsley Group has BRC and ISO 14001 accreditations and plays an active part in the British Frozen Food Federation and the RHA.
The future of the company is based on delivering a sustainable business model, focused on innovation, agility and customer service excellence. A commitment to re-investment has recently seen the £20 million expansion of the Heywood Cold Store, which will double the capacity at head office to 80,000 pallets. Additionally following the purchase of the Hams Hall depot in 2012, we created the Midlands 'Super Hub' consolidation centre. The 3rd Southern Super Hub will follow, as successful planning permission has just been granted for the build of a 150,000 pallet cold store in Peterborough. The 3 Super Hubs together will service the whole of the UK with a consolidation service for manufacturers into retailers.Next: Business Structure


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HIDDEN GEM, clean & convenient place to stay in Venice! This place is a hidden gem. It's an affordable place to stay on the Venice island without getting hit hard with your wallet. The room is nice and clean, feels more like a B&B than a hostel. It has solid Wi-Fi connection which is a plus! The location is near the train station, and the street is lively even at night compare to other places in Venice (San Marco square) so we felt quite safe stay out late in nearby area. Highly recommended! One downside to note -- they did not replace our shampoo for the second day, so we were running low. — Daniel, Canada (2014-11-13)
Very minimal but clean They put as many beds as they can in the rooms, so there is really not much space for anything else (including people). Not only is there no breakfast, there is absolutely nothing to make one, no kitchen, no common area. You can have a 50% discount for breakfast in the next door bar, which is a bit expensive to start with. Basically what you should expect from this hostel is a bed, nothing more. There's only one key for the room, which means that if someone is in the room the others have to knock on the door, even in the middle of the night. The hostel is very close to the train station and close to the main axis of Venice (at least for tourists). It's nice if your staying only one night and want to drop your luggages when you arrive. Otherwise you'd better try to find something more central, even though Venice is small so you're never really far form anything. The only real good thing about this that it's clean. — Yann, age 34, France (2013-09-17)
New hostel and good location This hostel is renovated recently, the room is clean and nice. Also, the location is good. — Yin, Hong Kong (2013-07-19)
More like a hotel than a hostel Simply a hotel room with several beds and strict, stupid rules. Ridiculous lock out and curfew and 'no laundry' in the 'dorm'. Quiet of course, but not social at all. Good for what it is; clean, quiet, simple. — O, Australia (2012-12-15)
Good location, hot water is not enough Good location, room is nice and easy to find, but hot water is not enough. wifi is limited. anyway for the venice, is good price for living. — ALEX, CHINA (2012-10-07)
Good location Location was great. The room and bathroom were a bit small but it was fine for our purposes. — Todd, USA (2012-08-31)
Small but clean Great location and clean rooms; especially for the price! Thank goodness for the A/C! — Mindy (2012-07-28)
Clean, that's it Two Stars. One for being clean, the other for the location and the young staff working there. Dorms are five single beds cramped into the double room-sized room. Have fun storing your packs. Lockout from the dorms (nice when it is raining like hell in Venice! You can't even wait at the reception area, because the female owner kicks you out so rude, that you are better off in the rain and cold than enjoying seeing her face. Makes money with us travelers, but has to learn that friendliness counts as well!). There is no kitchen, common room or else, no place to sit and chat or read. The place is only called a hostel, I imagine, because it offers shared rooms. Plus, you might be directed to another place, fifteen minutes' walk, owned by an older lady, who lacks being friendly and the responsibility of cleaning rooms and bathrooms, and sometimes changing sheets of beds for new arriving guests. — Peter, RSA (2007-10-03)


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perlmod, perlmodlib, perlmodstyle explain modules in all the gory details. perlnewmod gives a brief overview of the process along with a couple of suggestions about style.
If you need to include C code or C library interfaces in your module, you'll need h2xs. h2xs will create the module distribution structure and the initial interface files you'll need. perlxs and perlxstut explain the details.
If you don't need to use C code, other tools such as ExtUtils::ModuleMaker and Module::Starter, can help you create a skeleton module distribution.
You may also want to see Sam Tregar's "Writing Perl Modules for CPAN" ( http://apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=14 ) which is the best hands-on guide to creating module distributions.
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Info about Maldives - The Maldives is situated in the South West of Sri Lanka, on the equator.
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The numerous coral reef islands, 1,190 in total, form an archipelago of 26 natural atolls ( groups of neighbouring coral islands).
These 26 atolls are organised into 19 administrative atolls with the capital island of Male' established as an entity of its own forming the twentieth division.
Info about Maldives - Seen from air, the atolls
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The largest island of Info about Maldives is Fuvammulah, which is a single island and single atoll located in the southern part of the Maldives known as Gnaviyani Atoll in the administrative division.
In Addu Atoll the westernmost islands are connected by roads over the reef and the total length of the road is 12 km.
Wild flowers in all colors compliment the enchanting landscape of serene Maldives that is located towards the South east of Sri Lanka on the Indian Ocean.
About 88 islands on scenic Maldives are exclusive sea resorts.
Most of the atolls in Map of Maldives are ring shaped coral masses that enclose stunning beach country within their golden embrace.
You are likely to experience a dry season or the rainy season on your tours to Maldives depending upon the time of the year you choose for your Maldives sojourn.
Feel the constant sea breeze that caresses the soft Maldives sands and be a part of a calm world that offers you a peaceful sanctum away from the regular city bustle.
Map of Maldives - The islands are formed from the growth of coral over long-submerged mountain ranges.
These are true coral islands, with no other forms of rocks or minerals visible or within easy reach.
As a result, beaches are covered with white coral sand with no trace of yellow or black as seen anywhere else in the world.
There are no hills, mountains or rivers in the Maldives.
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Oscars '14: Predictions, part four - Specialty features
It used to be that the specialty feature categories were the part of the Academy Awards ceremony when you could safely take a potty break.
Not anymore. These categories sometimes have the most interesting winners: "Amour," "A Separation," "Rango," "Up," "Wall-E," "The Cove" and "Searching for Sugar Man," to name just a few from recent years.
The specialty features make up the fourth part of The Cricket's predictions for the winners of the 86th annual Academy Awards
The Cricket predicted the technical categories on Monday, the craft categories on Tuesday, and the short-film competition on Wednesday. The major categories will get their due Friday, on this blog and in the print edition of The Salt Lake Tribune (or you can take a peek now).
The Cricket will be live-tweeting the Oscar ceremony (which starts at 6:30 p.m. Mountain Time, with the pre-show red carpet coverage starting on ABC at 5 p.m.) on Sunday, at @moviecricket.
Animated feature
The nominees are... • "The Croods," by Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco and Kristine Belson; "Despicable Me 2," by Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin and Chris Meledandri; "Ernest & Celestine," by Benjamin Renner and Didier Brunner; "Frozen," by Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho; "The Wind Rises," by Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki.
What will win • "Frozen" is a lock in this category.
What should win • The delightful "Frozen," just slightly over "The Wind Rises" (opening Friday in Salt Lake City), which the great Hayao Miyazaki says will be his last film. (By the way, the cute-as-a-button "Ernest & Celestine," which had its English-language debut in the Sundance Film Festival's new Sundance Kids program last month, will arrive in Salt Lake City theaters in April.)
Documentary feature
The nominees are... • "The Act of Killing," by Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen; "Cutie and the Boxer," by Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher; "Dirty Wars," Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill; "The Square," Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, "20 Feet from Stardom," by Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen and Caitrin Rogers.
What will win • The musical comeback story "20 Feet From Stardom," a joyous celebration of backup singers, is the likely winner here.
Who should win: The harrowing, and divisive, "The Act of Killing" is the most amazing piece of cinema this year an uncomfortably close look at 1960s Indonesian death squads. (Disclaimer: The Cricket has not seen "The Square.")
Foreign-language film
The nominees are... • "The Broken Circle Breakdown" (Belgium), "The Great Beauty" (Italy), "The Hunt" (Denmark), "The Missing Picture" (Cambodia), "Omar" (Palestine).
What will win • Paolo Sorrentino's "The Great Beauty" is a sumptuous feast of Rome's landmarks and indelible characters, and will probably charm Oscar voters.
What should win • "The Great Beauty" is a gorgeous and whimsical movie, a shade more entertaining than either "The Hunt" and "The Broken Circle Breakdown," two tough dramas with plenty to say. (The Cricket has not yet seen "Omar," which arrives in Salt Lake City in mid-March, or "The Missing Picture.")
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Dragon robe
Dragon robes were first made for the Emperor who wore them in a special golden yellow colour. They feature dragons and other symbols of heaven and earth such as clouds, flaming pearls and, at the hem, a mountain peak surrounded by waves and water. This is represented by a rainbow of diagonal stripes.
Dragons are also a symbol of the emperor and his heavenly powers.
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Cooking with the Zojirushi Induction Heating Pressure Rice Cooker & Warmer NP-HTC10 makes rice taste so good it is worth the high price, reviewers say. The use of induction heating and pressure cooking makes cooking rice as simple as selecting a setting on the LCD display and then waiting for the rice cooker to do all the work. Owners say it is easy to use and clean.
Perfect rice. The Zojirushi Induction Heating Pressure Rice Cooker & Warmer NP-HTC10 uses precise heat control and pressurized cooking to create perfect rice, reviewers say. Menu settings include white (regular, softer or harder), mixed, sushi, porridge, sweet, brown, germinated brown and quick-cooking and other varieties. The rice cooker automatically selects from three pressure levels, and the vacuum-insulated inner cooking pan distributes heat to the rice quickly. Instead of a heating element, it uses inductive heating to heat the entire surface of the pot. The Zojirushi has automatic and extended keep-warm settings.
Removable parts make cleaning easy. The Zojirushi rice cooker has a clear-coated, stainless-steel exterior and removable parts -- the inner lid, inner cooking pot and the steam vent -- for easy cleaning. The orange LCD display panel is easy to read, and the timer makes it simple to set the cooking time, so you can set it in the morning and return home to rice in the evening. Cooking instructions are clear and easy to follow, users say.
Durable and sturdy. The Zojirushi NP-HTC10 has a 10-cup capacity (5.5 cups of dry rice), while the sister model, the NP-HTC18, has an 18-cup capacity (10 cups of dry rice). The rice cookers weigh 11.3 and 13.2 pounds, respectively. All Zojirushi products have a one-year warranty, but some reviewers say they wish the warranty was longer for such an expensive piece of equipment. However, we found no durability complaints, so warranty coverage does not seem to be an issue.
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This enthusiast site reviews a number of rice cookers, including the Zojirushi NP-HTC10. The reviewer calls it the "crème de la crème" of Zojirushi's collection, saying it's super easy to use, but it can take a while to cook the rice.
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The Zojirushi NP-HTC18 is the top choice in this roundup of five top rice cookers. Mandy Slake notes that it works at any elevation, thanks to technology that monitors and controls the inside pressure. This review is for the 18-cup model, but she mentions the 10-cup model, saying it's the same, just for a smaller quantity of rice.
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The Zojirushi NP-HTC10 receives an overall rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars based on more than two dozen reviews, and owners rave about it. They say you can tell the difference in taste and texture when rice is cooked with a pressure cooker. They also say the excellent taste is worth the high price.
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Cabaret singer Deborah Boily returns to her roots in musical theater and performs American songs, previewing her weekend solo show at Ovations.
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith pilot finally gets the go ahead
A year later, and the show is finally getting the go ahead for a pilot, but not at NBC. Somehow the show has now ended up at ABC. Liman, who directed the big screen version, will direct the pilot. It will be written by Simon Kinberg, who wrote the movie. Kinberg says of the series, ""It's essentially Married With Children with guns." Casting is under way with nobody officially attached to replace Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at this time.
I'll be curious to get a look at it, just because it's Doug Liman, but my real hope for the show is that it will somehow lead to a DVD set of the completely unrelated CBS show, also called Mr. & Mrs. Smith. You might remember that from the fall of '96, starring Scott Bakula and Maria Bello.


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Galilee Diary #406, September 7, 2008
Marc J. Rosenstein
it has been taught: three come unexpectedly: the Messiah, a found object, and a scorpion. (Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 97a)
and the snake was the craftiest of all the beasts of the field
(Genesis 3:1)
I will make a mourning cry like the jackals
(Micah 1:8)
Late one Friday night a few weeks ago our son Josh, still up when the rest of the family were sleeping, walking barefoot across the living room, met a robust looking black scorpion about two inches long. Being a resourceful type he knew just what to do he ran upstairs to awaken his younger sister, the zoologist, who he figured would be much more interested in the guest than he was. Sure enough she came to the rescue and captured the critter in a jar where we could all be impressed by it the next day. Saturday night she contacted an entomologist friend at the university who grilled her on all the details of the scorpion's various organs and appendages, and decided that it was indeed valuable for stud (he has a matching female). So Ilana put the jar in a plastic bag and took it with her on the train to Tel Aviv. Presumably it is now happy in its new urban setting. The trains on Sunday morning are very crowded, but our daughter resisted the temptation to use her travelling companion to clear herself some elbow room. Scorpions are one of our indigenous natural neighbors that we know are living around us, but we only encounter one maybe once a year or less, so it's always a surprise meeting.
Snakes too are part of the landscape here in the Galilee, and one encounters them more often than scorpions disappearing into the bushes along the sidewalk, crossing the road (sometimes unsuccessfully). There are a number of varieties found here, including both poisonous and non-poisonous ones. This summer there were an unusually large number of cases of snakebite in the western Galilee, only one of which, I think, was fatal. Various theories have been proposed to account for this increase: a) Global warming (of course) being cold-blooded animals, snakes are more sensitive to ambient temperature, and during the heat of the day seek out cool, shady places; as the surroundings get hotter and natural habitats get destroyed, they seek their shade in our gardens and porches. b) Earthquakes in southern Lebanon snakes don't like earthquakes (the theory goes) and so they have fled south into Israel. c) In recent years there have been escalating range wars between farmers and cowmen in the upper Galilee. These occasionally result in violence, generally against cows. When the meat of poisoned cows in the field is eaten by birds of prey, the birds die and their population is reduced, which in turn results in an increase in the snake population, as snakes are part of the hawks' normal natural diet.
Every evening when the muezzin of Shaab, the village across the valley, chants the call to prayer over the loudspeaker of the mosque, the jackals living on the mountainside respond with an eerie chorus of high pitched howling. Sometimes they sound as if they are just beyond the edge of our garden, and there are clearly a lot of them but I've never seen one. Their cousins the foxes we see from time to time, generally in the headlights, running across the road at dusk. Apparently the foxes, and maybe the jackals too, have found an easy source of food in garbage dumpsters (and the offal from illegal slaughter dumped in the valley by our neighbors in Sha'ab), so they are doing very well in our area. For years rabies was a problem with these populations (when we arrived at Shorashim in 1990 there was an epidemic, and we had to keep all dogs and cats indoors when we weren't walking them (try walking a cat). But now the use of oral rabies vaccine in bait has apparently succeeded in almost eliminating the threat.
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Iranian phishing on the rise as elections approach
Cross-posted from the Google Online Security Blog
For almost three weeks, we have detected and disrupted multiple email-based phishing campaigns aimed at compromising the accounts owned by tens of thousands of Iranian users. These campaigns, which originate from within Iran, represent a significant jump in the overall volume of phishing activity in the region. The timing and targeting of the campaigns suggest that the attacks are politically motivated in connection with the Iranian presidential election on Friday.
Our Chrome browser previously helped detect what appears to be the same group using SSL certificates to conduct attacks that targeted users within Iran. In this case, the phishing technique we detected is more routine: users receive an email containing a link to a web page that purports to provide a way to perform account maintenance. If the user clicks the link, they see a fake Google sign-in page that will steal their username and password.
Protecting our users' accounts is one of our top priorities, so we notify targets of state-sponsored attacks and other suspicious activity, and we take other appropriate actions to limit the impact of these attacks on our users. Especially if you are in Iran, we encourage you to take extra steps to protect your account. Watching out for phishing, using a modern browser like Chrome and enabling 2-step verification can make you significantly more secure against these and many other types of attacks. Also, before typing your Google password, always verify that the URL in the address bar of your browser begins with https://accounts.google.com/. If the website's address does not match this text, please don't enter your Google password.
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No rational person could think Iran's elections are open, free and democratic and the attack on Google email addresses is only part of that overall plan. It's not a free election when you strip 680 candidates down to a handpicked group of six. But you do have a choice! I just voted on www.we-choose.org which is a pretty cool idea to get Iranians to vote outside of the elections, in an open, confidential and free election. I voted for Maryam Rajavi, from the National Council of Resistance of Iran. I've followed what she's done in fighting for a free Iran, but you can pick from any of 20 candidates, which sure beats Khamenei's Gang of Six. So take a minute out to vote and make your voice heard.ReplyDelete
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Sometimes while going about our day to day lives, we forget to stop and give thanks to that all-powerful being who has brought so much to our pathetic existence. Since this day (6/6/06) shall never come again, I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to sit down for a little chat with Satan, ruler of the underworld, prince of Hades, and former sales manager at Tru Value Hardware, to find out how he feels about television these days. Enjoy:
Adam: Did you really work at Tru Value?
Satan: No, that was just a resume builder.
Adam: Oh.
Satan: Well, employers want customer service experience these days. It's tough. Getting kicked out of Heaven and torturing the damned doesn't automatically get you a job. It's not 1989 anymore, you know.
Adam: Sure. So anyway --
Satan: I can install drywall pretty well.
Adam: This isn't a job interview.
Satan: I'm just saying.
Adam: It seems that ever since television began, you've been portrayed in almost every possible way. You've popped up in old Warner Bros. cartoons, The Simpsons, South Park, Futurama (as a robot), and that's just cartoons. You've also been portrayed in a lot of live-action work as well, both comedy and drama. People don't seem to care for you personally, but they can't stop thinking about you, or playing you on TV.
Satan: And I never saw a single cent from any of that.
Adam: That's unfortunate.
Satan: Well, that's why I'm sitting here in front of you today. I think you'll find my carpentry skills are excellent.
Adam: I already told you this isn't a job interview.
Satan: Sorry, my mind isn't what it used to be. Old age, you know.
Adam: How old are you, exactly?
Satan: I am ageless, but if I had to put it in human terms, I would say I'm about 785,292,678 years old.
Adam: Wow.
Satan: But I read at the level of a 785,292,695 year old.
Adam: Did you ever become jealous when religious shows like Highway to Heaven and Touched by an Angel were popular?
Satan: Actually, I only saw one episode of Highway to Heaven, and I thought it was that episode of Little House on the Prairie where they found the time machine. Then someone told me that episode doesn't exist. So there you go.
Adam: Out of the hundreds of portrayals you've seen of yourself on television, which do you feel was the most accurate?
Satan: Oh, that's easy. Martha Stewart.
Adam: That's kind of mean, Satan.
Satan: What? You think I'm talking about her personality? I'm talking about culinary skills, man. I defy you to taste my pumpkin dessert next to hers and try to figure which is which. Also, I use a special ingredient.
Adam: Which is?
Satan: The gouged-out eyeballs of the innocent.
Adam: Actually, I heard Stewart uses that, too.
Satan: Yes, but she only uses half a cup.


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Deborah J. Baier, R.N.
PAWTUCKET - Deborah "Debbie" Jane (Sladen) Baier, R.N., 59, passed away unexpectedly at home on Sunday, March 16, 2014. She was the beloved wife of Claus Baier for 33 years. Born in Providence, she was the daughter of Thomas "Leo" L. Jr. and Jane (Rowse) Sladen of Pawtucket. Debbie was a graduate of the University of Rhode Island School of Nursing.
Besides her loving husband and parents, Debbie leaves a son, John T. Baier of Pawtucket; three brothers, Thomas L. Sladen, III and his wife, Barbara of Seekonk, Paul W. Sladen and his wife, Cathy of East Providence and Michael S. Sladen of Pawtucket and several nieces and nephews.
Services will be held Thursday at 10:30 a.m. in WILLIAM W. TRIPP Funeral Home, 1008 Newport Ave., Pawtucket. Burial will be private. VISITATION will be Wednesday 5 to 8 p.m. If desired, memorial gifts to the American Heart Association, P.O. Box 417005, Boston, MA 02241 will be appreciated. TRIPPFUNERALHOME.com
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January 8 - Unconditional War on Poverty is declared by President Johnson in his State of the Union address.
June- Ralph M. Besse, President of the Cleveland Illuminating Company, was elected the first President of the Board of Trustees.
September 1- CEOGC is incorporated as a private, non-profit corporation to apply for federal grants under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964; and is authorized as prime contractor and coordinating agency in Cuyahoga County.
January 8 - Ralph S. Locher, former Mayor of Cleveland, is elected President of CEOGC Board of Trustees,
April 9 - Ralph W. Findley is appointed Executive Director of the Council for Economic Opportunities in Greater Cleveland.
June - Project Head Start, an eight week summer program, is announced.
June 9 - CEOGC Board of Trustees receives notice that the Head Start Program is funded for $815,000. Carver Park and Dare become the first Head Start sites to open in Cleveland.
August 20 - CEOGC Board approves $120,000 grant to the Council of Churches for a pre-school nursery program on Cleveland's West Side.
November 12 - CEOGC announces that funding is available for the Reading Improvement Program ($487,606) and work study ($159,855); both programs to be sub-contracted for operation to the Cleveland Board of Education.
November 12 - CEOGC Board approves general and open election procedures to seat five new members on the board, representing low-income persons in five social planning target areas.
January 14 - CEOGC receives a $1.1 million federal letter of credit for Adult Education, Reading Improvement and Work Study in Cleveland.
March 25 - CEOGC approves $18,600 Head Start Grant for East Cleveland Schools and a $502,000 Head Start Grant for Cleveland Public Schools.
May 13 - Steven Minter introduced to CEOGC Board of Trustees as the new Director for the Work Experience Program under Title V.
August 10 - CEOGC Executive Director, Ralph W. Findley, reports approval for the Police Athletic League Youth Citizen Center proposal.
March 1 - CEOGC assumes responsibility for the Foster Grandparents Program.
May 24 - CEOGC becomes prime contractor for a $1.8 million grant for a Comprehensive Neighborhood Family Health Care Center.
June 28 - CEOGC announces its approval as prime contractor for Project Action in Manpower (AIM JOBS).
January 17 - Carl B. Stokes, Mayor of Cleveland, is elected President of the CEOGC Board of Trustees.
April 4 - Neighborhood Opportunity Centers remain open all night following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. CEOGC Outreach Workers spread the spirit and teachings of non-violence.
May 15 - CEOGC Board approves $2.7 million continuation grant of federal funds for Hough Norwood Family Health Care Center.
May 21 - CEOGC announces $40,000 grant for the Greater Cleveland Associated Foundation and $40,000 from OEC for Project CARE, a program for senior citizen involvement.
Ralph W. Findley retires as Executive Director of CEOGC. Melvin Crouther is named the new Executive Director. Edwardina Riggins becomes the first woman President of the CEOCG Board of Trustees.
The Ralph W. Findley Education Fund is created; this fund will help the clients and their children further their education with a grant of $250.
Cuyahoga County Commissioners declare today - September 22 - "Ralph W. Findley Day."
CEOGC celebrates the 20th anniversary of the agency.
Volumes I of the Ohio Poverty Indicator is published. Head Start is funded to serve 3,677 children. Fannie M. Lewis, Councilwoman in Cleveland Ward 7, is elected President of the Board of Trustees. Her tenure as President is the longest ever for the CEOGC Board.
Jacqueline A. Middleton is selected as Executive Director, becoming the first women in the history of CEOGC to hold this position.
CEOGC staff assumes direct operations of Head Start services for 722 children.
Board of Trustees and Executive Director negotiate for four new facilities for program expansion.
A newly constructed Head Start facility with 14 classrooms, G.E.D. literacy programs, will be completed in 1997. Head Start / CEOGC's Board of Trustees approved naming the site The Louis Stokes Head Start Center.
The Louis Stokes Head Start facility opens in the Lee-Harvard Community. The facility is the first of its kind in the nation - a Head Start building built with 100% federal funds.
CEOGC holds their first annual fundraiser, "Can You Put A Value On It", at the Cleveland Browns Stadium raising nearly $100,000 for CEOGC programs. Christie Alomar, Sharon Hargrove and Brad Bacon from TOPS Friendly Markets serve as the Honorary Chairpersons.
CEOGC begins construction on the Windermere Head Start Center in East Cleveland. The facility is a unique collaboration between CEOGC, The US Department of Transportation, RTA and the Greater Cleveland Port Authority. The center is scheduled to open in June 2002.
In November, CEOGC officially opens the CEOGC Head Start Center in East Cleveland. The site is a partnership between CEOGC, the Rapid Transit Adminstation, the US Department of Transportation and the Department of Health and Human Services.
CEOGC formally opens the Puritas Head Start Center on the west side of Cleveland in March.
CEOGC awards Senator George Voinovich with the inaugural Ralph W. Findley Award for Excellence in Community Action at an awards breakfast held at the Cleveland Intercontinental Hotel and Conference Center in May.
CEOGC dedicates the George L. Forbes Early Learning Center (formerly the CEOGC Head Start Center) in East Cleveland. The Cleveland Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, Forest City Enterprises and Texcel/Xerox are generous supporters of the event.
CEOGC opens its new Green Road Head Start Center in Highland Hills.
May - CEOGC receives a new five-year grant from the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Head Start to operate Head Start and Early Head Start programs in Cuyahoga County to begin July 1st.
CEOGC opens the Outhwaite, Earl B. Turner, Buckeye, Lakeview Terrance, Pearl Road, Horizon, Bellaire and Grovewood Head Start centers.


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Bud Light Turmoil: MMA PR Standards Have Gone too Far
The following is an editorial, expressing the opinions of MMA writer and one of the more obnoxious Fight Nerd correspondents Peter Lampasona. The opinions expressed in this editorial do not necessarily reflect those of The Fight Nerd.com or any of its contributors.
Yesterday, an article from ad analysts Advertising Age started making its rounds about the internet regarding a warning that major UFC sponsor Anheuser-Busch delivered to the world's largest MMA promotion. The brewing company responsible for Bud Light and its terrible slogans issued a public statement that they were displeased with racist and homophobic remarks from UFC employed athletes.
"We've communicated to the UFC our displeasure with certain remarks made by some of its fighters, and they have promised to address this," the statement read. "If the incidents continue, we will act."
The fighting words from Anheuser-Busch towards its long-time business partner and the context from which they came provide a perfect example of exactly how over-blown the image standards for mixed martial arts organizations really are.
The ultimatum from one of the biggest and oldest UFC sponsors comes off the heels of pressure from advocacy groups that have been butting heads with the MMA giant. The actual offensive statements in question were documented last January by the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence, where the organization cited off-color comments from a few athletes, mostly Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, as justification for why the whole sport of MMA "contributes to a culture of violence against women, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people."
But, the NCDSV statement, which was written to urge members of the New York State Assembly to uphold the ban on the sport, was not the catalyst for Anheuser-Busch's tiff with the UFC. The problems for Bud Light started with the commercial spot below featuring UFC ring girl Arianny Celeste:
UK media watchdog group Alcohol Justice described the above ad as "disgusting and typical of their cage-fighting sponsorship advertising campaign." And it is at the moment the above commercial seems any more harmful to society than anything generated from any other professional sport that the double-standard for the public relations of mixed martial arts officially becomes ludicrous.
Read more about advertising and the atrocities other sports don't get in trouble for after the jump.
Let's start with the obvious. Beer commercials, including ones from Anheuser-Busch, have been using sex to sell their wares long before most of this article's readers were born. The only thing that makes the Celeste spot particularly offensive is her line delivery. And, it should be noted that whichever producer prevented her from singing deserves some kind of humanitarian award.
But, while criticism started with the wholly unremarkable ad spot, it does run deeper than one Bud Light Lime commercial. As does the irony of the outrage. The same night the Anheuser-Busch statement went public, Capitals forward Joel Ward – a black Canadian – scored the game-winning goal in overtime against the Boston Bruins in the NHL playoffs. Boston hockey fans took to the internet and responded with all the poise and class expected from drunken New England hockey fans. For those who can stomach it, there's a nice compilation of responses to the overtime goal here.
If I were a betting man, I'd put my last dime against the NHL being held accountable by advertisers for the truly vile level of racism displayed by fans. The sport of hockey as a concept taking the blame for sending bad messages is also damn near impossible. Yet, the UFC and all of mixed martial arts is being called out to answer for what is essentially Rampage's inappropriate sense of humor.
You could point out that my opening example wasn't fair. After all, none of the Bruins fans featured are employed by the NHL. And Rampage, along with some other athletes that have gotten flack for insensitive or bigoted behavior, are major figures in the sport.
Google "Brett Farve sex scandal." While you're at it, search "Michael Vick trial" or anything about former Steeler's staple Ben Roethlisberger. I know the trouble that these athletes got in to was recent enough that you feel you remember it, but go read up on it, anyway. Let all the details sink in.
I'll wait.
Now that you're caught up, please hit the comment section and explain to me how much worse it is for a popular MMA athlete to tweet an offensive joke. All those professional football players I mentioned have a good chance of being in the hall of fame one day. Of course, they all got into trouble as individuals. But was the NFL called on by advertisers to answer for the bad message their players sent to fans?
Was football?
I believe that, as a newer sport with a very high average education level and a culture steeped in reverence and tradition, MMA can be held to a higher standard than other sports. MMA can, and often has, lived up to to that higher standard.
This is not to say that the culture of MMA is perfect. It's not. Nor that a relatively low amount of scandal excuses bad behavior from athletes in MMA. It doesn't. But the disproportionate amount of blow-back to the entire sport for negative publicity from individuals passed insane about a mile back.


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Travel Search Wars: Google Tests City Guides, Bing Travel Plagiarizes
Seems like travel functionality is a trending topic in search engine design: Google's testing intelligently-created City Tours. Meanwhile Bing Travel, which we wrote about recently, is in trouble over an alleged plagiaristic UI.
The City Tours feature is still a Google Labs project, so it's not fully fleshed-out yet, but it's extraordinarily easy to use. You simply set a destination, and the system calculates a three-day itinerary for you, using Google maps and search results to populate it. I tested it out for the city nearest me, Lisbon in Portugal, and the day one result is shown above.
Actually not a bad tour around the city, from my local knowledge. Google does seem to like suggesting museums, which it seems you're always supposed to spend an hour in. But the choices are all pretty good—the Carmo ruin museum is stunning. Day two involved a stroll along the river to the coach museum, which is nice, although Google ignores the incredibly famous cake shop just a hundred meters away, and expects you to follow the following action for one leg of the journey: "walk about 140 minutes." It also missed out a visit to the rather stunning castle.
Still, it's easy to add and remove suggested attractions via a simple search list interface, and you can adjust both the number of days the tour covers and the starting date. This last bit is interesting: Google isn't just randomly creating these itineraries, as different dates create different tour routes. Results are partially based on the opening dates of the different sites—which you can access via a quick click—and partially based on Google's own search engine voodoo, I suspect.
So, it's not perfect, but it's still experimental—and by the time it becomes a full Google product I suspect it'll be a very useful travel tour guide, at least enough to get traditional city guide book makers worried. But at least Google's not in hot water over City Tours, as Microsoft is with Bing Travel. We also checked out this travel guide recently, and gave it a tentative thumbs-up. But check out the image below, showing Bing Travel alongside established travel search engine Kayak.
Looks pretty similar doesn't it? Right down to the slider bar for the search parameters. It's close enough that Kayak's management has opened up a dialogue with Microsoft—one suspects that the dialogue is rather heated, though Kayak's chief of marketing, Robert Birge, only said, "from the look and feel of their travel product, they seem to agree with our approach to the market." Microsoft says it's in discussions with Kayak, but countered with a version of Bing Travel's development history and the wonderful line "any contrary allegations are without merit." That's MS remaining true to its monolithic bullying business identity. That's definitely interesting, since the clear similarity of Kayak to Bing would suggest MS doesn't have a leg to stand on.
[via Wired, TechCrunch]
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Oliver Cromwell House in Ely is taking part in the BBC's Your Paintings project.
Staff at the ancient house will open its wooden panels to reveal the 16th century wall paintings in the parlour.
The event will be held every day at 3pm, from Saturday, February 9 to Sunday, February 17.
A spokeswoman for Oliver Cromwell House said: "We will be opening the building's wooden panels to reveal the unseen 16th century wall paintings in the parlour, a particularly fine example of imitation panelling dating back to 1572.
"Viewing of the wall paintings is free at 3pm daily with normal admission price for the paintings trail available throughout the week."
For details, call (01353) 662062 or visit www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings.


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Diana Murphy, "Indecent Proposal."
Robert Redford is a dreamy dish. His good looks are enough to make even the most heterosexual man in the world consider his options. But Demi Moore in "Indecent Proposal" is a married woman, and even though she is paid a million dollars to do so, getting it on with Sundance should never have been an option for her. But she toed the line of prostitution and gave serious consideration to Redford's offer, making her a pretty poor wife in the process.
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Written Answers - Decentralisation Programme.
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
Dáil Eireann Debate
173. Deputy John O'Mahony asked the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the position in respect to decentralisation to Claremorris, County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40074/08]
Minister of State at the Department of Finance (Deputy Martin Mansergh): The Office of Public Works is pressing ahead with the Claremorris decentralisation project on a phased basis. Phase one of the project will provide for 104 posts and is currently proceeding. Phase two, involving 38 posts, is deferred pending review in 2011.
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