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Wedding Paper Divas conducted a survey* to find out just how prevalent sharing wedding details has become in the online social space. From "checking in" on Facebook to uploading snapshots of the bride and groom to Instagram, the survey found that guests are taking an active part in putting a wedding on a social channel.
While it is always fun to share photos of a good time, take your cue from the bride and groom when it comes to sharing their wedding day on your social accounts. 65 percent of recent wedding guests agree that it is important to ask the couple's permission before posting wedding photos online. So, before you break out the photo filters and dream up the perfect hashtag, take a moment to look over the infographic and see what the digital trends are for weddings.
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*An online survey of 1,005 adults, age 18 to 54, who attended at least one wedding in the past 12 months was conducted April 3 to 6, 2013. Results have a margin of error of +/- 3 ppt. The survey was administered by Decipher, Inc.
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QNAP Launches Marvell-based 4-bay Rackmount NAS Unitsby Ganesh T S on 3/23/2013 2:49 PM EST
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JFish222 - Saturday, March 23, 2013 - linkIf I found the right specs, the Marvel is an Armv5 in order architectural. I'd think something like this would get bogged down pretty fast.
More than a couple of users, or worse a couple of hosted applications (ex: VPN) I'd expect performance to drop fast. Any word how this thing will scale? Does the extra RAM improve this situation? Reply
Daniel Egger - Saturday, March 23, 2013 - linkThe smaller version should have about double the punch of my trusty lgnas which uses a 6192. However the 6282 does not support USB 3.0 and the datasheet doesn't say anything about SATA port multipliers that the 6192 supports -- my guess is that qnap puts external USB 3.0 and SATA on the two PCIe ports. However I'm not sure what that would do to the hardware acceleration of the software(?) RAID.
This announcement is *really* light on essential details, it's more a press rerelease which I really hate.
FWIW the price is really not so hot. The pre-release price in Europe is € 760,78 without storage which is f*ing expensive for a Marvell based system. Reply
K1wi - Saturday, March 23, 2013 - linkNot that QNAP boxes are ever cheap but...
Whenever anyone provides something in the rackmount format with hot swap drive bays they always bump the price correspondingly high and call it business/prosumer. Reply
Daniel Egger - Sunday, March 24, 2013 - linkRight, but those are rather low-endish. Even an Atom-based NAS should provide better performance.
And you can get a Netgear ReadyNAS 1500 without drives for € 530. There're several non-Intel devices for around € 600 including vendors like Synology without drives. And Atom based ones from Thecus start a little above that.
Heck, for the same starting price you can get a Thecus N4510U-S with 2x2TB drives.
Or why not buy a PROLIANT DL120G07 with Xeon E3-1220 and hardware RAID for € 630 and run e.g. FreeNAS. Reply
jamyryals - Monday, March 25, 2013 - linkThe price would be way more palatable if the power supply wasn't built in... I don't want to have to dismantle the damn thing if the PS blows up. Reply
EricZBA - Sunday, March 24, 2013 - linkOf course they announce this 2 weeks after I broke down and bought the cheap Qnap 4 bay desktop unit for our backup system. Would have loved to use something rackmount instead :( Reply

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There are plenty of reasons to be frustrated about the Mets, or concerned about their ability to compete. I've reported on them for you here, and that will continue.
But today will be for something very different. Today, I'm going to enjoy baseball with my daughter.
Long before I knew this game would be fraught with significance, I'd put this date aside in my mind. The final afternoon game of the year, thus eliminating the need to worry about bedtime creeping up on us like an elevated pitch count. A game against the Pirates, leading to heavily discounted prices. The last chance to indulge my daughter, who frequently asks about the next time we can go to a baseball game, by responding, "How about today?"
So that's what we discussed as I drove her to preschool this morning. And in a little while, that's exactly what the two of us are going to do.
She knows who is pitching, will happily tell anyone (especially Mommy) that we are off to see R.A. Dickey pitch. She knows the last time a Met won 20 games, Daddy was ten years old.
It meant so much to me, 20 wins. A journal entry I found from that time actually alternated between extolling Frank Viola and talked about Cindy Greenberg, a fourth-grade love interest who essentially served as the Jason Tyner to my wife's role as Carlos Beltran (though mercifully, she is still signed long-term).
I haven't told my daughter that we might be watching R.A. Dickey's last start as a New York Met, just as I haven't told her that the man whose picture hangs in her playroom, David Wright, could be playing his final home game.
Those of you who aren't two years old are kidding yourselves if you don't think it's a possibility, of course. Both are elite; both want to win; both are heading toward expensive paydays after 2013. And a team with little financial wherewithal or reasonable expectations for contending in the near-term will be hard-pressed to keep either of them.
It would be foolish to assume they are both gone; it would be naive to pretend it is anything like a long shot that they both stay long-term.
But there's plenty of time to worry about all that. And if the Mets trade Dickey and Wright tomorrow, I'll still have had the chance to watch two of my favorite Mets play today. And my daughter can see one Met make history, a day after the other inscribed his name atop another franchise leaderboard.
It's astonishing to remember just how recently a future without David Wright or Jose Reyes, let alone both, seemed impossible. In July 2010, my daughter attended her first game, at the tender age of four months. The Mets won, 5-4. The RBIs came from Carlos Beltran, Jose Reyes, and three from David Wright.
I could do the math and see that Beltran might not be around for the long-term; but it felt entirely appropriate that my daughter's twin pillars growing up, Reyes and Wright, would make such a first impression. It would make a great story when we attended the ceremony at Citi Field in, say, 2020, watching the 5 and 7, worn by lifelong Mets, join the 37, 14, 41 and 42.
But if the last few years of rooting for the Mets has taught me anything, it is that such permanance cannot be assumed. My decision to attend every 2006 playoff home game, back before I did this for a living, was rooted in the idea that such occasions don't happen very often, so get to them while you can.
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In 1924, when Gar Wood and his mechanic, Orlin Johnson, arrived at the starting line for the Fisher-Allison Trophy Race on the Niagara River at Buffalo, they were dressed in evening wear--white ties, tail coats, the works. According to Anthony Mollica, author of Gar Wood Boats: Classics of a Golden Era, Wood even wore an opera hat fitted with a chinstrap. They won all three heats and were awarded the trophy looking dapper, if somewhat disheveled.
Wood's motivation for this particular publicity stunt was manifold and in all likelihood can be traced back two years, to when the committee overseeing the American Power Boat Association's (APBA) Gold Cup Races instituted sweeping changes in the rules governing the competition. Prior to 1922 Wood--teamed up with Christopher Columbus Smith, the eventual founder of Chris-Craft--had won five straight Gold Cups under rules that left the design of the boats and the engines that powered them virtually unregulated. Wood's deep pockets were matched by his unparalleled fervor for extreme performance, and every year following his first Gold Cup victory in 1917, he relentlessly upped the ante with bigger engines and brawnier boats. By 1921, with entries falling off because of the great cost of facing Wood and with the Eastern boat-racing establishment supremely resentful of upstart Midwesterners dominating the sport, something had to be done.
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First he takes a Juno. Then he takes the 'Peg.
Leonard Cohen may be at the top of the Canadian musical mountain, but he still knows his place in the universe.
The 78-year-old Montrealer kneeled on his prayer bones at the MTS Centre Friday night, pleading for redemption from a higher power and begging for forgiveness from an adoring crowd.
He was supposed to perform here on March 11, but the flu swept its way through his exceptional band, so the gig was rescheduled until Friday night.
The wait was worth it.
Cohen is just six days removed from winning the Junos' artist of the year award at its gala Saturday in Regina. He showed why he was such a deserving choice during the first of two sets Friday night.
During his first set, he blended his treasure trove of classics, such as the opener, Dance Me to the End of Love, a country-blues version of Bird on a Wire and a sweet rendition of Ain't No Cure for Love with three new songs from his critically acclaimed 2012 recording Old Ideas, which has slices of his recent wit and wisdom.
One of them, Amen, had Cohen back on his knees, left hand clenched by his cheek, seeking the unattainable love that is so close, yet so far away.
During the second set, another new one, Show Me the Place, proved to be another song to add to Cohen's famous ones. Cohen's voice, already known as one of the deepest in contemporary music, almost reached Paul Robeson territory when he pleaded, "Show me the place, where you want your slave… to go."
The soulful skeleton of Cohen's show remains similar to the sumptuous Live in London album/DVD of 2009, which re-introduced his classics to a new generation of listeners. But those heart-rending bits of Canadiana were instead performed with a western style that matched the bolo tie Cohen was wearing.
And a fiddle, superbly played by Alexandru Bublitchi, replaced the usual instruments of wind during early solos, adding a different mood compared with Cohen's famous live recording.
Later, Spanish guitar wizard Javier Mas brought the show back to Europe prior to Who by Fire, and his deft touch earned four separate bursts of applause from Cohen's polite fans.
Cohen was also accompanied once again by singers Sharon Robinson and the Webb sisters, Hattie and Charley. They fit so well together, it's hard to imagine Cohen without a trio of right-hand women by his side.
The sardonic Tower of Song kicked off the second set to plenty of giggles before another one of Cohen's titans, Suzanne, hushed the audience. For three or so minutes, they were transported to an earlier time, as the great songs so often do. The same effect would happen at the beginning of a lengthy encore, when So Long, Marianne took the MTS Centre back to the Mediterranean, 1960, even if it was just for a moment or two.
Hallelujah came near the end of the second set, and it continues to be a fan favourite, despite its overuse by Hollywood. The song can pack an emotional wallop, and Cohen squeezed every bit of feeling out of it, and his gestures earned one of the biggest cheers of the evening.
Mortality is never far from the topic of conversation for rockers in their 70s, and the subject came up near the end of Friday's concert. Cohen acknowledged the recent passing of Stompin' Tom Connors and Rita MacNeil before playing Choices, a song from American country legend George Jones, whose death was announced earlier Friday.
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The Chinese herb Ban Zhi Lian may not be in everyone's lexicon, but to the 80 women with stage IV metastatic breast cancer, who are participating in the second phase of the BZL101 clinical trials, it represents hope and life.
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Tagliaferri's interest in Ban Zhi Lian, which has traditionally been used to treat swellings, sores and fever, was sparked in 1996 by a fellow acupuncturist, Isaac Cohen, who would later become a co-founder of Bionovo. At that time, Cohen had been treating, for a decade, women who were battling breast cancer with conventional medicines and had run out of treatment options. "In their exhaustion and desperation, they were trying to find an alternative treatment that was not so harsh," says Cohen, who often prescribed herbs to be prepared as teas to ease the side effects of chemo and hormone therapy. But the patients' oncologists, says Cohen, discouraged them from trying anything new. "They'd say Chinese medicine was quackery and that there was no evidence it worked," he says. Still, Cohen observed that many of the women to whom he gave Chinese herbs, including Ban Zhi Lian, responded well to the herbs and even experienced a relatively good quality of life. "At first I chucked it to luck," he says. "But then you see it's not just luck. And then you ponder why."
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Wright homers twice as Mets drop opener
DENVER -- Coming off two promising wins against the Twins last weekend, the Mets found themselves grooving, until snow postponed their final game in Minneapolis. They flew to Denver still feeling relatively good about themselves, before more snow disrupted their schedule.
"It doesn't help the momentum," manager Terry Collins warned on Tuesday morning, hours before the Mets resumed play in Game 1 of a doubleheader at Coors Field.
His comment proved foreboding, and the Mets infused it with truth during a frosty, 8-4 loss to the Rockies. Defensive troubles exacerbated Dillon Gee's struggles on the mound, sending the Mets to a Game 1 loss despite third baseman David Wright's two homers.
"I could just tell, two days off really hurt us today," Collins said. "As much as the guys wanted to play, the energy level wasn't there. And the weather didn't help."
Gee pitched well into the fifth inning, nursing a two-run lead with a man on first base and two outs. But typically a control artist, Gee walked Carlos Gonzalez on a 3-2 pitch, hit Troy Tulowitzki on the right elbow and walked Michael Cuddyer, forcing in a run.
The next batter, Todd Helton, sent a playable grounder toward the right side of the infield, but second baseman Daniel Murphy could not glove it or knock it down. The ball instead trickled into right field for a two-run single, giving the Rockies their first lead of the day at 5-4.
"That's pretty much what I was trying to do -- get a ground ball," Gee said. "It's just going that way right now. I get a lot of ground balls that just sneak under gloves and next to gloves."
Of the seven hits that Gee allowed in 4 2/3 innings, three were grounders that Murphy and shortstop Ruben Tejada could not glove, despite diving efforts. But the Rockies also hit Gee hard at times, plating runs on Gonzalez's solo homer in the third inning and Wilin Rosario's RBI single in the second. Gee allowed five runs in total, departing with two outs in the fifth.
"Ground balls, normally that's what you want," Gee said. "But it seems like every time they hit a ground ball, it finds a way through."
For most of the afternoon, the Mets found themselves ahead due to Wright, who smashed a two-run homer to right field in the first inning and a solo shot to center in the fifth. But the Mets scored only one other run against Rockies starter Juan Nicasio, despite forcing him to throw 97 pitches over five innings.
Originally scheduled to play at 1:10 p.m. MT, the Mets and Rockies waited two extra hours as employees cleared the field of roughly eight inches of snow, which forced the postponement of Monday's series opener. Among those shoveling were Mets general manager Sandy Alderson and Rockies owner Dick Monfort, as well as a small army of Rockies front-office employees and even the team's mascot, a purple dinosaur named Dinger.
Gee was originally scheduled to start Sunday, but saw his outing pushed back twice due to wintry conditions in Minneapolis and Denver. He frequently blew into his hand during Colorado's key fifth-inning rally, with temperatures dropping from the high- to low-30s as the game progressed.
"It's tough, but it's bad out there for everybody," Gee said. "I don't want to use the weather as an excuse at all. It's tough for everybody. But I thought I made some decent pitches and got what I was looking for -- ground balls. It's just the way it's going."
Anthony DiComo is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AnthonyDicomo. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Sending our Condolences on the Death of NBA Coach's Daughter
The S.L.E. Lupus Foundation and Lupus Research Institute send deepest condolences to NBA Houston Rockets Head Coach Kevin McHale and his wife Lynn on the loss of their daughter, Alexandra "Sasha" McHale to the disease of lupus. We offer our heartfelt support to the family as an organization and as individuals whose every day is about helping improve the outlook for people with lupus. Sadly, lupus is primarily a woman's disease, and mostly young women like 22-year old Sasha who should be out conquering the world instead of battling a devastating disease.


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Zeal and Enthusiasm Described in the Qur'an
What the Believers' Excitement Is Like
In societies remote from values of the Qur'an, the word "excitement" often expresses feelings of nervousness, anxiety, stress and agitation in the face of certain events. It is not a positive feeling but something distressful. The excitement of believers, on the other hand, is a feeling of ebullience experienced at the thought of Allah's artistry, of His blessings, and of the eternal life in Paradise.
Disbelievers experience feelings of distress because they do not put their trust in Allah. Putting trust in Allah means taking Allah as one's guardian and relying only upon Him. Since people of ignorance fail to appreciate the greatness of Allah, they cannot experience feelings of trust and submission. Instead of taking Allah as their protector, they expect to receive assistance from worldly sources. For this reason they can never get rid of the fears and anxieties particular to the ignorant.
Believers, however, are not afflicted with the distress found in ignorant societies thanks to the trust they place in their Lord. They are the ones who profoundly experience the excitement of faith which the Qur'an describes as an attribute of believers. That is because they are aware that every single occurrence is created for a divine purpose and so, contemplate deeply to perceive divine purposes. By exercising consciousness, they can easily see purposes hidden in the most delicate details. When compared to people of ignorance, they show more sensitivity to the very same occurrence, derive more pleasure and feel greater excitement from it. They experience zeal and excitement from knowledge that they have been created from nothing into a colorful world where hundreds of thousands, even millions of miracles exist all together at the same time. Wherever they look, they see the unique artistry of Allah: the universe, the sky, the sun, the moon, the butterflies, millions of animals, plants, fruits, etc. A believer cannot help getting excited when he envisions all these.


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Balder Succes will lead the British assault on the Ryanair Novice Chase at Punchestown on Thursday.
The Alan King-trained six-year-old will bid to continue his excellent start to 2014 which has seen him win all his three starts so far, culminating in the Grade One Doom Bar Maghull Novices' Chase at Aintree three weeks ago.
The other British raider among an eight-runner field is the Tom George-trained God's Own, who has not raced since finishing second to Balder Succes in the Pendil Novices' Chase at Kempton in February.
Ireland's champion trainer Willie Mullins saddles two runners in Champagne Fever, who was just touched off in the Arkle Trophy at Cheltenham, and Felix Yonger.
Trifolium, who defeated Felix Yonger in Leopardstown's version of the Arkle but has since been beaten by Champagne Fever and Balder Succes, is one of two challengers from the Charles Byrnes stable.
The other is Arnaud, who was well beaten in the Red Rum Handicap Chase at Aintree on his latest start.
Completing the line-up are the Henry de Bromhead-trained Moscow Mannon and Tony Martin's Ted Veale, fourth and sixth respectively behind Balder Succes at Aintree.
The Barbury Castle trainer also has Medermit in today's Grade One Punchestown Gold Cup, which carries 200,000 euros in prize money.
Swindon jockey Wayne Hutchinson takes the ride on the 33-1 shot and King is hopeful of success.
"This trip will suit him better than the two miles and five in the Ryanair Chase at Cheltenham, where he was in top gear all the way. He would also have needed that match-practice, so we'll give it a go and hope for the best."
King celebrated a double on Monday courtesy of Nyanza at Windsor and Gimme Five at Bath.
"She (Nyanza) has strengthened up through the winter and also appreciated the step up in trip," said King.
"He (Gimme Five), too has strengthened up and has also been gelded since he last ran."
Meanwhile, Lambourn trainer Nicky Henderson tasted success at the Punchestown Festival in the bragbet.com Handicap Hurdle with 9-1 shot Cool Macavity clinching victory under Barry Geraghty.
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The Saint Leo Soccer Academy, headed by men's soccer coach Joel Harrison, will host a series of summer camp sessions on the campus of Saint Leo University, it was announced recently.
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Topic: Saffron Takes on Cancer?
Hi folks,
I just wanted to share some information that my youngest brother (the MIT grad/researcher) shared with me yesterday:
"We also saw a good article about saffron (the spice that is used in lots or Spanish and mediterrean cooking):
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic … _on_cancer
Six out of eight rats on the placebo got liver cancer from liver cancer causing drugs, while only 4 out of 24 on saffron got cancer.
Here is another articles that talks about it. Sounds like another natural tool along with turmeric.
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More to follow..."
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Canada's road to London has been a bumpy one.
Equestrian champion Eric Lamaze's horse died during a competition, Alex Despatie smacked his head on the diving board, triathlete Paula Findlay has been hindered by a hip injury and Canada's star hurdlers didn't even make the Olympic team.
Three-time world champion boxer Mary Spencer required divine intervention by the International Olympic Committee just to get to the Games.
And then there was cyclist Ryder Hesjedal, who went down in a pile of bodies and bikes during the Tour de France. The silver lining is he'll get some rest before the men's road race and time trial in London.
But Canada's athletes will put the pre-Games bad luck behind them when the Summer Olympics officially kick off with Friday's opening ceremonies in East London.
Competition starts earlier than that though. Canada faces Japan in a preliminary-round women's soccer match Wednesday.
Simon Whitfield, winner of triathlon gold in 2000 and silver in 2008, will carry the Maple Leaf into the opening ceremonies and represent the 277 Canadians competing.
Canada's objective of a top-12 finish among the 200-odd countries is a reach.
Using the 2008 Olympics in Beijing as a gauge, Canada needs 24 medals, which would be the most ever for this country at a non-boycotted Summer Games. The previous high was 22 in 1996.
Canada tied for 14th in Beijing with 18 and won just 12 in Athens in 2004 to finish 19th.
The country isn't as deep in summer-sport talent as it is in winter. Canada can't afford any more misfortune if it is to finish among the top dozen countries in London.
"Top 12 in 2012 is an ambitious goal, but when you're striving for new levels of excellence, that's always going to be challenging," says Chris Overholt, chief executive officer of the Canadian Olympic Committee.
Think of the total number of medals to be won as a pie. China, the United States, host Britain, Russia, Germany and Australia will eat almost half of it.
Japan, France, Italy and South Korea will fork out healthy slices for themselves. Canada has to elbow aside Spain, Cuba, Belarus, Brazil, the Netherlands and Ukraine to get a piece.
"The medal race is so, so tight," says Anne Merklinger, head of the Own the Podium program. "We know one medal is going to make the difference between 13th and 20th."
If you put stock in such things, a USA Today online projector forecasts Canada wins 18 medals again with five gold, six silver and seven bronze.
USA Today says the number is "based on an algorithm that monitors athletes' performances leading up to the Games."
Sports Illustrated projects 17 medals (2-8-7) for Canada.
Kayaker Adam van Koeverden of Oakville, Ont., in the 1,000 metres and mountain biker Catharine Pendrel of Kamloops, B.C., are reigning world champions in their respective sports.
The glamour sports of swimming and track and field provide a motherlode of medal chances. Canada isn't a major player in either, with a bronze in each in Beijing.
Improvement is expected in both, however, with three medals in swimming and two at the track the stated goal for London.
Shot putter Dylan Armstrong of Kamloops can end Canada's century-long medal drought in throwing events.
Victoria distance swimmer Ryan Cochrane intends to upgrade the bronze he won in the 1,500 in Beijing and go for a second medal in the 400.
The bulk of Canada's medals will likely come from rowing, cycling, trampoline, women's wrestling and canoe/kayak. The country has a couple of medal opportunities on the opening weekend.
Cochrane is a contender in the 400-metre freestyle Saturday, although his bread-and-butter event is the 1,500 on Aug. 4
The diving duo of Emilie Heymans of St-Lambert, Que., and Jennifer Abel of Laval, Que., are potential medallists in women's synchronized springboard Sunday. One of the best in the world on springboard, Abel is a double-medal candidate.
Canada was a slow starter in both 2004 and 2008. The opening seven days of competition in Athens produced one bronze medal. Canada was shut out the first seven days in Beijing.
Canadian athletes to watch during London's opening week include Armstrong, Ontario trampolinists Karen Cockburn, Rosannagh MacLennan and Jason Burnett, the rowing eights and cyclists Hesjedal of Victoria and Clara Hughes of Winnipeg, in the time trial.
Concerns over the heat and smog in Beijing have been replaced by worries over transportation, too much rain and security controversies in London.
A waterlogged June has organizers nervous about the equestrian and rowing venues. London's forecast for the next couple of days is warm and sunny, but more rain is predicted for Friday. A last-minute shortfall in the number of security guards needed led to an influx of British soldiers and policemen.
There is also the matter of getting around a city of eight million people with the added congestion of the Olympic hordes.
Despite the slings and arrows, the Canadian team has reasons to be optimistic. The rowing team is poised to stand on the podium multiple times.
The cycling team has improved massively with medal contenders on the road, track and trail.
Despatie required stitches and time away from the pool after his training mishap, but the Laval diver is back on the boards.
Spencer lost her opening bout of the world championship, which was also an Olympic qualifier, in May.
After an agonizing wait, the IOC's Tripartite Commission gave her a wild-card spot in the 75-kilogram class. The Wiarton, Ont., fighter still has a chance to show she's one of the best in the world.
Former world champion hurdler Perdita Felicien and Beijing bronze medallist Priscilla Lopes-Schliep didn't make it to London.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Victims' rights have been the center of the Trayvon Martin case and victims' rights were the center of attention Monday at City Hall kicking off a week of events honoring crime victims.
State Attorney Angela Corey, special prosecutor in the Martin case, joined members of law enforcement and advocacy groups at a ceremony beginning Victims' Rights Week.
Corey could not talk about the Martin case, but others praised her for her prosecution of murders in the Jacksonville area.
Among those who spoke at Monday's event was Lysa Telzer, mother-in-law of Renie Telzer-Bain, who was killed in 2009. Her killer is now on death row.
"Crime has no boundaries, ladies and gentlemen, so please try and keep yourself, your family and your friends as safe as possible," Telzer said. "Tell them every day that you love them."
Victims' Rights Week events:
Duval County:
- TUESDAY: Candlelight Vigil at 6 p.m. in Hemming Plaza
- WEDNESDAY: Victims' Rights Week awards luncheon from 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the Jacksonville Main Library
- THURSDAY: Crime Prevention seminar: Safety for Seniors from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. at the Oceanway Senior Center
- FRIDAY: ABC's of Representing Victims (legal seminar) from 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. at Florida Coastal School of Law
Clay County:
- TUESDAY: Self- defense class from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. at the Orange Park Substation (Blanding Blvd.)
- WEDNESDAY: Crime Victims' Rights Ceremony at 5:30 p.m. at the Orange Park City Hall Pavilion
Nassau County:
- TUESDAY – FRIDAY: Victim information table in the main lobby of the Courthouse. The clothes line project will also be on display in the Courthouse. The project consists of artwork from victims who visited Micah's Place.
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Parks and Wildlife Looking for Additional Dove Leases
AUSTIN, Texas — Attention landowners: Looking to make some extra money and got a weedy field not in production or being rested this fall?
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Public Dove Hunting Program is not only an opportunity for hunters, but it is also an opportunity for landowners to make some extra money by leasing the hunting rights for dove and other small game to TPWD.
This is a short termed lease usually for 45 to 60 days in length — the equivalent of the first split of the dove season.
Revenue from the sale of hunting licenses and the annual public hunting permit enable TPWD to expand public hunting opportunities through private land lease programs.
"We are looking for properties that are at least 50 or more acres where hunting is legal, with access, food, water and cover to attract dove," said Kelly Edmiston with TPWD's public hunting program. "Ideal sites have a good food source such as grain crops; sunflowers, croton (goat weeds), water or that have become recently fallowed."
Additionally, each tract must have a public access point where hunters can park their vehicles, from which they will walk to the hunting area.
Temporary signs will clearly identify property boundaries. Game wardens and other departmental staff will monitor the units to ensure compliance with all regulations. Edmiston said most entrance points are designated for parking to protect the private property and reserve the maximum acreage for actual hunting activities.
"We expect our public hunters to respect the land and the landowners who have been so generous. We want to maintain a good relationship for the future," Edmiston said.
This is a short termed lease usually for 45 to 60 days in length — the equivalent of the first split of the dove season. Not everyone with a hunting license is allowed legal access to these short-term lease lands. Only those hunters who purchase the $48 Annual Public Hunting Permit (approximately 31,000 are sold annually statewide) from TPWD are allowed to hunt and only at times the area is open to hunting under the terms of the contract.
Price per acre is dependent on size, habitat, game species and hunt dates included. Location is also very important. We would like to find areas that are along the corridors of interstates 35, 45, 10 and 20 within about 100 miles of major urban areas.
"However if a property is located in other areas and you are interested, give us a call anyway," Edmiston said. "We try to find a good hunting opportunity, which means that we don't lease all properties that are offered due to limited funding and not meeting the criteria we are looking for. If you know your local wildlife biologist or game warden you can also contact them."
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This article was published 30/11/2012 (1725 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Dolores Chief-Abigosis perfectly illustrates why social workers must take detailed and accurate notes of their case work.
She took over the Phoenix Sinclair file on Nov. 14, 2000. From that date until Feb. 5, 2001, there is no recorded contact between Chief-Abigosis and the family.
In testimony at the Phoenix Sinclair inquiry this week, the former social worker insisted she might have had more contact but not written it down. Her supervisors have testified it was standard social-work practice to note all contact.
Chief-Abigosis's shoddy note-taking was exacerbated by her lack of memory. She answered "I can't recall" 14 times in a 25-minute exchange with a lawyer.
Under questioning from commission counsel Derek Olson, Chief-Abigosis drew a blank on even minor matters.
Is there a reason why supervisor Lorna Hanson would have signed Samantha Kematch's closing file summary in your place, Olson asked.
"I can't recall."
"It's dated Aug. 16," he prompted. "Were you still at the agency?"
"I can't recall the exact date I left the agency," she replied.
(For the record, Chief-Abigosis left the agency in July 2001.)
In another exchange, Olson questioned Chief-Abigosis about her involvement with the family after Echo, Phoenix's younger sister, died.
If you attended the funeral, Olson asked, when after that did you stop actively working on files?
"I can't recall."
After the funeral, did you offer services to Sinclair, Olson asked.
"I can't recall."
"Were you still involved with the family after funeral?" he asked.
She was on paper duty. She said she remembered attending Echo's funeral. Does that help you remember when you resigned, Olson asked.
I can't recall exactly, she said.
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Set in the 1950's Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.
©1956 James Baldwin (P)2013 AudioGO
I am a New York musician, a New York native, and a passionate reader of fiction. Audible is helping me fill in some serious literary gaps.
"Baldwin: sensational. Butler: great. One caveat."
I'd never read any Baldwin and it was high time to fill in the gap. I think "Giovanni's Room" is a good way to get to know this extraordinary author. The writing is filled with beauty, the characters are potent and alive, and Baldwin's ability to evoke time and place (cities, seasons, an entire era) is masterful. The tone is unrelievedly elegiac; the sad ending is announced at the very beginning, and there is precious little joy in the narrative. Every character is at some kind of impasse. But Baldwin describes everyone with such vivid detail that their dead-ends blaze in Technicolor.
Dan Butler is a fine actor, and he doesn't fight the dolefulness of the book. He lives it. He has good timing, he finds non-stagy ways to evoke the characters, and he turns Baldwin's novel into a subtle, powerful monologue. He has variety and soul.
What's the catch? Something that could have been avoided, alas. There is a lot of French in this book--most of it takes place in Paris, some in the south of France--and Butler has no idea how to pronounce the many, many French phrases. It's not merely that he has an American accent. Sometimes I simply could not figure out what he was saying at all. He's such a believable, sympathetic reader. I wish he'd taken the time to coach the French and get it right. He doesn't even pronounce the title character's name correctly; sometimes he gets the name "Guillaume" right but in the next paragraph he'll call the man "Zhee-yome." Etc. For me, a distraction and an irritation. For another reader, perhaps less of an issue.
"Giovanni's Room" is shortish--a manageable length, and I think a beautiful entry into the world of James Baldwin. I am ready for more.
"Narrator's Poor French Ruins This Book"
A reader who could read the French names, places and frequent French phrases!<br/>This is a beautiful story, set in Paris and populated significantly by French characters and French speakers. It is a crime that the narrator cannot pronounce the French. This is worse than merely distracting; it destroys an essential part of the book.
He butchers the French names and phrases. It is often incomprehensible due to his poor pronunciation.
Thomas Otto
"Sub par performance for a Baldwin masterpiece."
The least they could do is find a narrator who can pronounce 'Giovanni' and basic French. And if you can't find that, the least the narrator could do is make his mistakes consistently. Pronunciation wasn't his only problem.
If I hadn't already read this book I probably wouldn't have finished listening.
"A masterpiece that holds up over time"
Atmospheric of post-war Paris. Gives you a sense how far our society has come eith LBBTQ.
This writer puts Hemingway to shame.
"Coming out. Quick and easy."
This was a very nice book nothing earth shatteringly amazing happened but there was great character development and a story that made me invested. A quick and easy page turner.
"Does Not Disappoint"
It's a good story to listen to because it lends itself to the audio format. Be careful, though -- you may miss your exit on the highway because you're so involved in the drama.
Baldwin is one of my favorites because he always is able to lull the reader into a sense of comfort before unleashing a phrase, sentence, or passage that rises above the fray and cuts to the core of an emotion. He blends the matter-of-fact with the lyrical so well.
The last scene between David and Giovanni is very well done. Baldwin takes what could have been a trite, commonplace circumstance and makes it into something much rich and less generic.
An alternative title? Perhaps: Escaping Myself.
"Great Classic - Can't Go Wrong!"
The story is a classic - James Baldwin captures so many emothions - passion, longing, loathing into one story line.
"Classic Baldwin language, powerfully emotive"
I will recommend it to people fascinated by relationships with others and with one's self
Another Country is another beautiful story of human relationships and emotional connections
David and Giovanni
I would take Giovanni if I was allowed to fall in love with him
Must read for open minded romantics
"The Revisit"
This is my third revisit of this magnificent story and my first time listening to its magic, mystery and tragedy. Thanks to Dan Butler I now have a truly vivid and unforgettable picture of these characters that will live in my thoughts for years to come. I love this book. I love it more now that I've had the opportunity to experience it this way.
"The Six Hours and Some Minutes Best I Have Spent."
When I realized, I was gay in 1967 at a very early age... I went to the library's card catalog in St. Paul, Minnesota and searched the catalog under the term homosexuality. I found this book but I was too young and too scared to read it. That has nagged me all these yards that I didn't.
I think it would have been scared out of my mind... This book was ever so sad... And the struggles of these characters I identified with both the younger characters and saw many parallels with my own. Many think, the times that these characters lived in are well pass. Sadly, they aren't. Our times present individuals the same shame, guilt, and pain....
Great read.
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PROGRAMS: Hillels of New York Trip to The U.S. Holocause Memorial Museum
Each spring, the New York area Hillels sponsor a trip to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. The purpose of the trip is to share the experience of the Jewish people in the Holocaust with students of color in order to forge a better understanding of this historical event and to work together on campus to prevent any forms of prejudice, hatred, and bigotry, as well as working together to fight modern-day "genocidal" behavior around the world. Please check back for dates.
All students who are interested in attending must register with the Office of Student Activities, C001 North Building or the Hillel Lounge, Thomas Hunter 501.
Guidelines for the New York Area Hillels Trip to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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The New York area Hillels is sponsoring a trip to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. This event is made possible by the generosity of David and Linda Taub. David and Linda Taub established the Student Holocaust Museum Endowment Fund to encourage both Jewish and non-Jewish students to learn together about this significant period in history.
Purpose of the Trip
Linda and David Taub know that it is important for students to study history in order to appreciate its impact on the present. However, they recognize that for college students, understanding history must do more than chronicle the past. By learning its lessons, history can help young people to shape the future. The purpose of the trip is to share the experience of the Jewish people in the Holocaust with students of color in order to forge a better understanding of this historical event and to work together on campus to prevent any forms of prejudice, hatred, and bigotry, as well as working together to fight modern-day "genocidal" behavior around the world.
Jewish students and students of color of traditional college age (18-26). Approximately half of the 98 students and staff will be Jewish, and the other half will be students and staff of color.
A Professional from the Hillel staff or the Student Activities office on each campus is asked to recruit, interview, publicize, and be in charge of all the necessary details of the trip for their students, and their school. In order to better recruit underrepresented students, letters are sent to the local college Dean of Students and Student Life departments asking for their assistance.
Signing Up
To sign up, please visit the Office of Student Activities, C001 North Building, or the Hillel Lounge, Thomas Hunter 501, or fill out and Submit the Online Interest Form.
The students will be staying Saturday night at the Holiday Inn, Greenbelt, MD. Each student will be in a room with two beds and a total of two to three students per room depending on rooming requests. Females and males will have separate rooms.
Departure Information
One bus will be leaving from Brooklyn College Hillel @ 2901 Campus Road, in Brooklyn, New York (Tel: 718-839-1151). One bus will be leaving from Queens College Hillel at 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Student Union Room 206, Flushing NY (tel: 718-793-2222) corner of Melbourne Avenue, Exit 24 on the LIE). Each school is responsible for their students' transportation to and from the pickup stops. There will be pick up and drop off stops in Manhattan at NYU Hillel 7 East 10th Street New York, NY (tel: 212-998-4114).
This is a FREE trip. Hotel, food and transportation are included.
Short Itinerary
The students will leave New York on Saturday evening and will be staying overnight at the Holiday Inn in the Greenbelt, MD. On Sunday morning, the students will have breakfast in the hotel and then take a bus tour of the historic sights of Washington, DC. The students will then go and tour the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (boxed lunch will be served on the bus) and afterwards have a debriefing session discussing their thoughts and feelings about what they have just seen. The group will have dinner and then proceed home to New York.
Participating Schools: (partial list)
Barnard College
Baruch College
Bronx Community College
Brooklyn College
City College
College of Staten Island
Columbia University
Hunter College
Hofstra University
York University
John Jay College
Kingsborough Community College
LaGuardia Community College
Long Island University (Brooklyn Campus)
Queens College
Queensborough Community College
Sarah Lawrence College
St. John's University
SUNY Purchase
SUNY Stony Brook
For United States Holocaust Memorial Museum information, go to www.ushmm.org. For more information about the trip contact the Office of Student Activities at 212-772-4908.


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Good morning all! Good morning, Sally!
Just like last summer, before he left for his long meeting with Mt. T, and me with you for two weeks (oy, July blog management!), Carp badgered, um, asked me, if I'd post a post this week, and I just can't say no to the blogfather, so here I am. (I'm certainly no "guest" though, so I took that out. Blogmama perogative.)
But what to say, what to say? Not even going to try to match Mitch or Paul on prospects, CR snagged Mess, and you all have covered most of the major topics and news. And besides, is there really anything left to say about Staal?? So, to keep your summer-addled, hockey-less minds sharp, I thought we'd just have some fun. (Of course, you're also free to talk about anything else, as per usual, and we will post new news if by some miracle there is any, but if you're up for it….)
Now, obviously this first idea doesn't work in reality. I'm aware. But we talk so often about divisional rivalries, and what a pleasure our division is, and how certain teams are going to come out of their divisions based on their rosters to make a Cup run, I thought … what if you could remake the league? What if we didn't have to worry about Philly and Jersey and, ugh, Pittsburgh, but say, Detroit or, better yet, the Blue Jackets!
So, Challenge 1: Remake the NHL's team groupings to your liking. Who'd you like us to play less, or more? If you don't want to do the whole league, just remake the Eastern Conference, or just the Atlantic Division. But remake something, involving the Rangers, naturally. And explain your rationale.
Challenge 2: Build your own Rangers. And don't just go by star power, please. From anyone now playing in the NHL, or prospects, who do you think would work best together to make the ideal Cup-winning, great to watch, in-your-dreams dream team? No capologist skills needed, no salary worries. But here's the real part of the challenge: You must keep Hank, Dubi and Avery. (That's my fun). So choose your lines. You can have a back-up goalie, but lines without the other two don't count.
If any of the challenge answers particularly inspire me, you can have the book about cats I got sent in the mail that's been sitting on my desk for months, courtesy of the sister blog!
In closing, thanks to all the guests so far, and to the ones coming (MickeyM tomorrow, Yergs Saturday, and ilb Sunday). It's hard putting yourselves out there, I know, but Carp and I sure appreciate it, and so do most visitors here…TA!


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IAOM Offers Fundamentals of Milling I and II Courses in Cremona, Italy ... March 11-15 and 18-22
Date Posted: January 10, 2013
It is our pleasure to announce open enrollment for two new Resident Milling Course offerings to be held in March 2013 in Cremona, Italy.
Together with Ocrim's International School of Milling Technology, IAOM will be offering technical milling courses, which are modeled after the basic and advanced milling courses IAOM offers at Kansas State University.
Students may enroll in one or both weeks of classes.
Fundamentals of Milling I
Course Date: March 11-15, 2013 (registration closes 2/4/2013)
This is a technical training course intended for employees, supervisors and managers closely associated with flour milling plant operations.
Participants will be introduced to general flour milling plant operations including the grain elevator, cleaning, conditioning, milling, packaging and warehouse departments.
Special focus will be placed on grain cleaning, conditioning and milling equipment role in the milling process and system flow sheets. Wheat quality characteristics as well as the cleaning and conditioning impact on mill processing will be qualitatively explored.
Flour quality specifications and quality measurements will be identified for basic bakery product systems.
In addition to lecture and discussions, participants will be engaged in hands on laboratory and pilot scaling milling exercises.
Fundamentals of Milling II
Course Date: March 18-22, 2013 (registration closes 2/11/2013)
This is a technical training course intended for employees, supervisors and managers directly associated with flour milling plant operations.
Participants will be introduced to a variety of technical and economic analytical tools for milling process evaluation.
Technical tools to be presented include product granulation, cumulative ash, step chart development, and flow sheet equipment allocation analysis.
Economic tools to be discussed include yield management, divide milling and the impact of moisture on profitability.
The impact of wheat characteristics, cleaning and conditioning on mill operations will be quantitatively explored.
Selected roller mill grinding, sifting and purification variables will be examined in depth.
Special emphasis will be put on mill balance and troubleshooting skill development during hands on laboratory and pilot scale milling exercises.
(includes tuition, laboratory fees, books, special instruction, materials, field-trip transportation, and lunch on class days; fees do not include lodging and evening meals)
• IAOM Members - 1,900 Euro
• Non-Members - 2,000 Euro
LOCATION: Ocrim's International School of Milling Technology | Cremona, Italy
LODGING: Ocrim has reserved a block of rooms at the Hotel Continental for a special rate of 65 Euro/night.
This rate includes breakfast.
Students will be responsible for their hotel, meals outside of the course, incidentals, and travel to/from Cremona.
Don't miss this opportunity to empower your employees with tools and problem-solving skills that will help them make and implement recommendations based on technical and economic considerations!
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Shareholder anger over Apple's recent stock swoon has finally spilled into public view. Now, a shareholder lawsuit promises to set up a dramatic showdown later this month at Apple's annual shareholder meeting.
On one side will be Greenlight Capital, a fund run by notable short-seller David Einhorn. Greenlight has been pushing Apple for the last year to distribute a special class of stock to shareholders to enhance the value of their holdings.
On the other side will be Apple, which has asked shareholders to vote on a proposal in its latest proxy that would eliminate the ability to distribute such preferred stock. To help carry the day with shareholders, Apple has enlisted the help of an organization that had long been critical of the company's governance practices: the California Public Employees' Retirement System, or CalPERS.
CalPERS apparently liked the fact that Apple's proposal called for the majority election of all directors, in addition to the elimination of what CalPERS termed the "blank check" preferred stock.
The move by Einhorn made clear why Apple had been seeking an alliance ahead of the February 27 annual meeting in Cupertino, California. The company has a fight on its hands.
In a letter to shareholders declaring his challenge, Einhorn said his firm believed Apple's stock had been undervalued even before it fell almost 35 per cent in recent months.
"However, like many other shareholders, Greenlight is dissatisfied with Apple's capital allocation strategy," Einhorn wrote. "The combination of Apple's low [and shrinking] price to earnings multiple and $137 billion (and growing) hoard of cash on the balance sheet supports Greenlight's contention that Apple has an obligation to examine all options to create and unlock additional value."
In addition to the dividends Apple began paying in the past year and the stock buyback program underway, Einhorn wants the company to distribute a special preferred class of stock to shareholders. Einhorn argues that these additional shares would allow the company to reward shareholders without having to repatriate billions of dollars the company has stashed overseas that would require the company to pay hefty taxes.
"Apple has $145 per share of cash on its balance sheet. As a shareholder, this is your money," Einhorn wrote. "Though Apple recently commenced paying a common dividend and initiated a nominal share repurchase program, we believe that there is much more that the board should do for shareholders. We believe that it is important for shareholders to send Apple's board the message that the current capital allocation policy is not satisfactory, and that after considering all options, Apple's board should act to unlock the latent value of Apple's balance sheet and franchise."
In addition to announcing the challenge to Apple's shareholder proposal, Greenlight also filed a lawsuit in US federal court in New York to block the amendment, saying such a move violates shareholders' rights.
"As holders of more than 1.3 million Apple shares, Greenlight is alarmed that Apple is attempting to eliminate preferred stock from its corporate charter, hindering its ability to unlock value for shareholders," Einhorn wrote in his shareholder letter. "This is an unprecedented action to curtail the Company's options. We are not aware of any other company that has ever voluntarily taken this step. Furthermore, over 90 per cent of the S&P 500 companies have the flexibility to issue similar preferred shares."
Greenlight said it informed Apple on Wednesday of its intent to challenge the proposal, and that the company promised to re-evaluate the idea, but did not remove the proposal from the ballot.
Greenlight also noted that Apple had bundled the stock proposal with two other reforms, including the majority election of directors, which it supported. It said the tactic was meant to confuse shareholders into voting for a package of reforms, even if it included the stock change that was not in their interests.
Apple and CalPERS did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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For this book discussion, participants are reading and discussing six Iowa memoirs in order to come away with a richer appreciation of Iowa's past and a deeper understanding of who we are as Iowans. Sessions are led by scholar Allison McNeese and are at 7:00 pm on alternating Thursdays from March 14-June 6. Join us tonight as we discuss the book A Lucky American Childhood by Paul Engle. Copies of the book are available to check out from the library.
Other books to discuss in this series are: A Good Days Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression by Dwight Hoover; The Farm at Holstein Dip: An Iowa Boyhood by Carroll Engelhardt; Out of this World by Mary Swander; and By the Iowa Sea by Joe Blair.