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An Ipswich family has escaped unharmed after enduring its second house fire in just over a year.
On Monday Leichhardt resident John Paton's home in Jane Street burnt after his two-year-old grandson set a mattress on fire while playing with a lighter just after 7am.
Mr Paton watched in disbelief as he suffered the same experience as he did at his Larson Street home on Christmas Eve 2011.
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WHITE HOUSE CONTINUES TO STONEWALL, AGAIN by JUST ME
WHITE HOUSE STONE WALLS attorney, Victoria Toensing, for a Benghazi whistle-blower, with denials and misdirection. Toensing is trying to get clearance to meet and speak with her client, but the Administration, via an Obama mouthpiece, Jay Carney, will not give Toensing information regarding the process of getting that clearance. Carney continues to deny that the President has no knowledge of survivors of the Benghazi slaughter, who want to testify and tell the unknown truth about that day. Until the attorney can get the necessary clearance, she cannot speak with, or build a defense, for her client. Carney accused Toensing of distributing misinformation and spreading gossip. However, recently,Toensing received a letter, which directed her to a human resources office which would start the process of gaining clearance. That office gave Toensing a telephone number, which continues to go to a voice mail. In itself, that's not unusual in these hectic days, but the problem is that no one is ever home. Contact with a living, breathing individual, appears an impossibility. Now, who is disseminating falsehoods?
Of course, without clearance, the Benghazi hearing cannot produce legitimacy in any area. This White House has gotten by with so much in the last 4 1/2 years, that it is now like a spoiled child throwing temper tantrums when something doesn't go his way. This is unacceptable, and the list of unacceptable actions, taken by Obama thus far will topple his regime. Arrogance always causes a fall. It is a matter of time before rats begin to jump ship and spill their guts.
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The director and producer team behind 'Watchmen', Zack and Deborah Snyder, reveal that more than five minutes of the action fantasy movie's previous running time has been cut out.
"Watchmen" won't be having a 2 hours and 43 minutes running time anymore. Coming up with the latest update on the film's length, director Zack Snyder and his producer wife, Deborah, have stated that the running time of the comic adaptation movie has been shortened, though the final length of the movie has not yet been approved by the studio.
Addressing the matter in a telephone interview with Sci Fi Wire on November 19, Deborah said, "We're getting really close. We're at two hours and 35 minutes." Zack then added, "The movie's pretty long...compared to '300', which was an hour and 58 minutes. The director's cut [of Watchmen] is about three hours and 10 minutes long. It has even more than the theatrical version, as far as the detail that gets even closer to the graphic novel."
Apart from revealing the current running time, Zack also opened up about the incorporating of a 20-minute animated adaptation of "The Black Freighter" into the movie. "The Black Freighter version of the movie that we're working on - which has the ins and outs of the Black Freighter comic book woven through it, with an animated version of the Black Freighter - will be about three hours and 40 minutes," he explained. "So there's a huge epic version of Watchmen, which will probably come out after the movie's theatrical release, for hardcore [fans]."
Adapted from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' comic book series, "Watchmen" follows superhero-turned-vigilante Rorschach as he investigates the murder of his former colleague and discovers much more than a simple homicide case. Starring Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, Patrick Wilson, Billy Crudup and Matthew Goode as other costumed superheroes in an alternate 1985 America, this Warner Bros. film has been enlisted for U.S. theatrical release on March 6, 2009.


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It's obligatory, if unnecessary to announce the Cincinnati Bengals will have no interest in the recently released Peyton Manning. There. But the scenario which resulted in the Indianapolis Colts letting go the greatest player in the history of their franchise is a stark reminder to all players and fans. As legendary Houston Oilers' coach Bum Phillips once quipped, "NFL stands for Not for Long."
Manning spent 14 years with the Colts, turned a moribund franchise into a Super Bowl champion, revolutionized a city's sports culture and generally endeared himself to the community in every way possible. That didn't count for much when the team was faced with the choice of paying him $90 million dollars over the remaining three years of his contract when the other choice was young phenom Andrew Luck.
For their part, the Colts rewarded Manning handsomely. CNBC's Darren Rovell tweeted last night that Manning has made over $1000 hour while breathing since the Colts selected him first overall in the 1998 draft. Yet when Manning looked at the prospect of finishing his final days on a rebuilding squad, the fact that the Colts paid him $20 million last season to wear an earpiece held no sway.
The NFL is a business. It's about winning and making money, lots of both and not always in that order. Sometimes that gets lost when looking at the Cincinnati Bengals.
Mike Brown has made lots of money over the course of his ownership of the team, but there's not been much winning until very recently. During that time, Brown has made some bad choices personnel-wise, some of them motivated by personal rather than football reasons. Obviously that didn't work out all that well. Whether that means firing a coach who might be a heck of nice guy, but a really lousy coach, or letting go of a player with a troubled life off-the-field even though you really want to help him get straightened out, the football decisions have to be made. Fortunately, it appears that more of the football decisions and fewer of the personal decisions are being made lately.
For Bengals fans, Manning's situation is a reminder to enjoy the moment. The Bengals' seasons have failure have programmed many fans to expect the worst and to hold off their support, waiting for the other shoe to drop. Those that did so this past season missed a magical coming out party with Andy Dalton and AJ Green. They missed a spirited young defense playing aggressively on every snap. That season is gone and won't be back.
Most importantly, as each season passes, some of our heroes, those men whom we cheer on each Sunday won't be back. Cedric Benson revitalized his career and gave Bengals fans some great moments. It's a business though and both parties are moving on. Jerome Simpson electrified everyone, especially against Arizona, but he likely won't be doing any more acrobatics in Paul Brown Stadium.
We've got Dalton and Green and Peko and Dunlap, but for how long? Until their contracts expire, or worse, heaven forbid, if they're injured not that long. We unexpectedly waved goodbye to Bobbie Williams last season.
Colts fans got to enjoy Peyton Manning for 13 glorious seasons on the field. They witnessed history. Bengals fans would be wise to pay attention to the young stars in front of them. They'll be gone before you know it.Tags: AJ Green, Andy Dalton, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Bengals, Football, NFL


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NoahSD and Vanessa Selbst interview Dan Cates
As the one person in the whole sage that seemed to have been forthright –although the questions posed to him have been lacking in both depth and scope—Daniel "jungleman12" Cates agreed to do an audio interview with Noah Stephens-Davidowitz (NoahSD on 2+2) and Vanessa Selbst, where he intended to set the record straight regarding what he knows and his role in the Jose "Girah" Macedo scandal.
The interview ended up being done in two-parts, over two days, because after the initial interview, Cates' publicist contacted NoahSD to inform him that Cates had lied during the interview and wanted to clear it up! So, even before the interview was available many in the poker community started to have a different opinion on Cates' involvement, and also the trustworthiness of the rest of his answers.
After listening to the first portion of the audio interview (I think it's important that you hear the audio and not simply read the transcript in this case as there are a lot of pauses and such) I truly felt that Cates was just a naïve young millionaire; great at poker and not so great in other areas of his life. However, after listening to Part 2 a new version of Cates was revealed. Cates has a hard time distinguishing between right and wrong –saying so in the interview, as he digressed into a long rant about what a lie is; when it's ok to lie; why certain lies aren't lies—and has an "ends justify the means" mentality on these things.
One such example is when he tries to explain why multi-accounting isn't always cheating, because it's not always done for a strategic advantage. What he is forgetting is that even though I might not be collecting people's personal data –phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and so on—for nefarious reasons, there is a reason why these doing this is illegal! Just because you have no malicious intent does not make something ok.
Here is a response from Cates on 2+2 addressing some of the blowback he has received from the interview:
"And so we see that this does not satisfy you, 0 lies in 2nd interview and you STILL suggest I'm lieing, even though logically that makes little sense when I tell the interviewees things that could not possibly be figured out had I not said them. I'm really frustrated… After all seems like I should say nothing? For FAQ I will answer 20 questions and then quit responding to this topic althogether, and quit doing interviews. I might have done more but this once again affirms that you will not believe me no matter what I say"
What he does not understand is that he has lied and admitted to lying, but seemingly thinks everyone should now just assume he is being completely truthful because he revealed a little bit of dirt about himself; eventually he did, after first lying and then being pressed on the matter.
I'm not going to conjecture as to what Cates may be lying about or his motivations for lying, I'll let you draw your own conclusions after listening to the interviews.
You can listen to the audio interviews at SubjectPoker.com
Tags: Audio Interview, Ends Justify The Means, Hard Time, Initial Interview, Macedo, Malicious Intent, Mentality, Millionaire, Noah, Personal Data, Publicist, Rant, Sage, Scandal, Scope, Social Security, Social Security Numbers, Strategic Advantage, Trustworthiness, Vanessa Selbst
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Piccadilly Stockpile?
I am really liking the small squared Piccadilly I've switched to as my current daily notebook.
The quality is much improved from the first Piccadilly notebooks I bought— the elastic is tight, the back pocket works, and everything just seems solid. I like the paper, which is nice and smooth and seems to resist more bleed-through than others. It opens nice and flat. And the thickness and square spine are very appealing. And it only cost me $3.99 at Borders! $3.99!!!
When I bought this notebook, I almost grabbed two more, but I held off, thinking that A) I hadn't used it yet and might not like it, and B) I had about a dozen other notebooks ready for future use, including 4 squared Moleskines that I managed to snag for about 50 cents each, and C) who knows what other exciting new notebooks the future holds? The minute I stock up on one thing, I might fall in love with something else!
I can be fickle with notebooks– though I generally know what I like, some notebooks' charm can fade a bit after a short period of use. I loved my Markings notebook when I first started it, but then the back cover started tearing (below is how it ended up, way too soon after I started using it), and I never felt like the semi-leather cover broke in the way I wanted it to. I might have bought 5 of those based on first impressions, but now I'm glad I didn't.
I will be buying a few more Piccadillies soon– if Borders has them, that is. I think they buy large lots of them periodically rather than re-ordering in small batches, so the stock levels seem like they can be unreliable. And Borders as a company is reputed to be a little shaky, so what if they stop carrying them or their stores close? I could order directly from Piccadilly but that gets a bit more expensive. And if they lose Borders as a major customer, will they still produce these notebooks? There is always that paranoia that the perfect notebook will cease to exist, a fear that Moleskine has exploited nicely with the story of Bruce Chatwin's Paris stationer ceasing to carry the type of notebook Moleskine later resurrected under their own brand.
How about you? Do you buy multiple notebooks when you find a type you like? Does it make you nervous not to have a few spares ready to be written in? How many unused notebooks do you have stockpiled?
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I definitely stock up — in fact I stocked up on Piccadilly notebooks from Borders last week! I find near where I live, they go fast and sometimes don't show up again for weeks. One Borders had a special rack just inside the front door featuring them, and that makes me nervous. Who knows if they'll be there when I need them?!
It may just be because of the awesome colors, but I have like 9 extra Field Notes notebooks laying around.
Do I have a stockpile? LOL….. Though I've moved on from Moleskine to books that are more suited for fountain pen use, I still have a single red Mole… along with several Paperblanks, Webnotebooks, Apica Exist, Cachet linen covered watercolor books…. Yes. I have a small stockpile.
Piccadilly simply can't be beat. I've used both the lined pocket size and the large size. The quality is excellent and about half of what I'd spend on a Moleskine. I order directly from them in batches; if you order 5 or notebooks at a time, the shipping only adds about $1 to the cost of each notebook, which means they're still economical.
Since I started doing most of my writing in longhand, I tend not to use the large notebooks as much, but only because scanning the pages for transcription is such a pain; I'd much rather write on nice sheets of lined paper which can then be fed through my scanner. For longer writing sessions it's also more comfortable that way.
Anyone looking to save a few bucks on a moleskine-like notebook simply can't go wrong with Piccadilly.
I have a stockpile of all sorts of makers.. but I do find myself grabbing a Piccadilly or two every time I'm in Borders because they're so cheap and out of fear of them disappearing. They're great notebooks for the price!
Yes I definitely stock up on journals. When the new softcover Piccadillys arrived I bought three or four of them. But I did go to Borders yesterday and I am proud to say I resisted the urge to buy the new red Piccadilly Primo journals! Small victory! Still… ya gotta love Piccadilly. They've improved quite a bit. Much better elastic. Very reasonable pricing.
Yep, many notebook and journals seem to come and go, and so when I come across one I like, I tend to stockpile a little. I love the Picadilly Primo — the paper is heavier than in the other Picadilly journals and it has more pages. Since they come and go from Borders, and since Borders may go some day as well, it's hard not to stock up when a batch lands on the shelves.
The quality of the new Piccadilly notebooks are definitely improved. I found the elastic on the softcover Piccadilly I bought to be tighter than moleskines, which is a feature I liked very much.
I've definitely stockpiled. For a while, I couldn't find Piccadilly notebooks at any Borders I went to, so I ordered a bunch from Piccadilly directly. There's two things I especially like about Piccadilly over Moleskine: The first is the price. The second is that the large Piccadilly is that their medium notebook is the size of a Moleskine large, and their large is 7.5″ x 10″, which is just about the perfect size for some of the ways I use a notebook.
At any rate, since my earlier Piccadilly splurge, I've noticed that Borders has them in stock, including the new soft-cover and the primo journals, and I tend to have to remind myself that I've got a bunch of unopened notebooks in my office at home. It's tough.
On Piccadillyinc.com, if you order at least 25 qty you get 60% the suggested retail and shipping is free is its domestic/US orders.
I stumble upon them this weekend and been using the large ruled, so far they're great. I'm only worried about the binding cause the only thing holding the binding on the soft cover is that first cardstock pg. Will have to check out the hardcover bindng before making any future purchases. Maybe I'll just gluegun it.
I missed this post when it was first published. I do have a stockpile of notebooks, because I never know what I am going to be in the mood for…
I have a set of 5 hardcover notebooks that I found at Target on clearance with squared rule on the bottom and a "Cornell"-like large rectangle at the top. Still sitting on these – they deserve a BIG project. I have a few Picadillys, 2 Moleskines, and a fresh set of Fieldnotes Colors that I just ordered 2 weeks ago.
It feels to good to know that there are plenty of people out there with the same, ah, "condition". 😉
I found this post whilst browsing the website.
Do I have a stockpile of notebooks? Do I?
I have over a 100 unused notebooks, as I have a tendency to act like a magpie in stationery shops and buy up all the ones with the pretty covers. I'm especially guilty when it comes to buying TeNeues A5 Coolnotes. I have at least three. I've not delved into Moleskines much, nor Rhodia, Fieldnotes or Picadilly. I probably should try out the more quality notebooks but I always find myself disappointed unless it has a bright/patterned cover or something to catch my eye.
I'm writing more simply just so I can start getting through that stockpile before it takes over my house.
I always buy the composition notebooks from target during the school season they have them for .50¢ so it's hard not to stock up. But I still like my markings notebook!! Fits all my notes ,snippets of ideas quotes and whatever else really a few sketches in pen..glad to know I'm not alone with my obsession…*stands up* hi guys I'm Michael and I'm obsessed with notebooks.
Unsolicited update: Piccadilly no longer sells directly to retail customers, wholesale only. Bummer.
The product lines have been expanded dramatically sice the olden days.
Your only hope of stockpiling Piccies is to buy them in bulk off the clearance shelf at a bookstore. IN the USA, at Barnes and Noble, you can join their buyer's club and get additional discounts even on clearance items. At xmas 2014, I got 15 Piccies and Ecosytems for about $4.00ea at B&N. Some were unwrapped, corners bent, unpopular colors, soft and hard covers. Power shopping.


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Gabriel Byrne
Actor Gabriel Byrne first came to the Irish public's attention as a smouldering sex symbol called Pat Barry on The Riordans. Since then, he's enjoyed huge worldwide success in films like 'Defence Of The Realm', 'Miller's Crossing', 'End Of Days', 'Stigmata', and 'The Usual Suspects'. Gabriel told Ryan how he bagged Richard Nixon's and Paul McCartney's autographs. He also talked about his role in Richard E Grant's new film "Wah Wah", his mission as a Unicef Ireland Ambassador to Africa. He also talked about living in New York City before picking up an accordion and playing a bit of "Wooden Heart".
'Celebrity Jigs And Reels'
The "Celebrity Jigs and Reels" judges joined Ryan on the couch. Sports pundit and broadcaster George Hook, fashionista Robert Byrne and Irish dancing giants Jean Butler and Colin Dunne all revealed their views on the sexiness, elegance and strenuousness of Irish dancing and gave a sneak preview of what to expect from RTÉ's latest reality TV programme. Jean told Ryan how intricate and complicated Irish dancing is, Robert confessed that he much prefers to Tango, Colm recalled teaching Irish dancing to a bunch of coach drivers, and George revealed his love for dancing going back to the good old musicals.
'Celebrity Jigs And Reels' goes out on RTÉ One on Sundays at 6.30PM
P.J. Gallagher
A man of many disguises, P.J. Gallagher is a stand-up comedian who's been out and about, deceiving members of the public in the hit comedy programme Naked Camera.
P.J. talked about his character which he calls 'Jumper Man': a handcuffs wearing dodgy Dubliner, who at one stage tried to get a lift on a jaunting car from Killarney to Belfast. P.J. also chatted about his other characters such as the outrageous but hilarious Jake Stevens "The Whistler" or his 'dirty auld dear'.
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Hayley Westenra is an 18 year old New-Zealander who's been selling albums since the tender age of 15. Her first album, 'Pure' was so successful that it made her the fastest-selling debut classical artist of all time. She's currently performing with Il Divo on their world tour and stopped by our studio to perform the Joni Mitchell classic 'Both Sides Now'.
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Another Day, Another Unhappy Housekeeper for Naomi Campbell
>> Case closed for Naomi Campbell. Unfortunately, she hasn't gotten her major case taken care of yet — the trial starts this Friday for her British Airways incident — but she did just settle with a former housekeeper on claims of racial and sexual harassment, unfair dismissal, and breach of contract. This makes the eighth documented case of employee conflict for Naomi (!).
The plaintiff says she was forced to quit her job last October because Naomi made her life a "living hell," and in return, Naomi has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum — rumored to be in the thousands — in damages. Until Friday, when who knows what could happen . . .
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A Journey for Your Beautiful Mind: Economics Graduate Study and Research
A lecture to graduate students of the joint Economics Ph.D. program of the Department of Economics, University of Bergen, and the Norwegian School of Economics.
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The Hudson softball team fell to 8-13 overall and 3-5 in the Northeast Ohio Conference River Division after losing an 8-6 decision to Stow-Munroe Falls May 13 on the road.
Seven of the Lady Bulldogs' runs were unearned. Right-hander Sara Gedeon took the loss in the circle for the Lady Explorers.
Stow (18-5, 8-0) built a 5-1 lead after three innings.
The Lady Bulldogs got their first run in the first on a throwing error. Hudson tied the game in the top of the second on a ground out by leadoff batter Maddie Sullivan.
The Lady Bulldogs answered with three runs in the bottom of the second and one in the third.
Sara Schmidt had a two-run single in the second and Kayla Esterle made it 5-1 when she smacked a two-out, run-scoring double off the fence in left field in the third.
Hudson, which had trouble with Stow right-hander Sadie Jones' off-speed pitches early in the game, cut its deficit to 5-3 in the fifth.
After singles by Sullivan and Sydney Coleman, Eden Janesch drove in the first run on a ground out and Gedeon made it 5-3 when she smacked a single to center.
The Lady Bulldogs added two more runs in the fifth on a couple of errors in the sixth, but the Lady Explorers cut it to 7-5 in the top of the sixth.
Hudson scored one of its runs on an error and also got a run-scoring single from Coleman.
Stow got a crucial insurance run in the bottom of the sixth when Landy Slider made it 8-5 with a run-scoring single in the seventh.
The Lady Bulldogs appeared to be in business when they turned a double play in the seventh.
But Lexi Dorr followed with a single and Nikki Turner drove her home wth a run-scoring double.
The Lady Explorers got no closer.
Jones got the final batter to hit a pop fly to end the game.
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Fox Chapel standout turns focus to AAU
Erin Mathias will turn her attention to the AAU circuit after a whirlwind freshman season punctuated with a verbal commitment to Duke. Fox Chapel's 6-foot-3 center will play for the Western Pennsylvania Bruins, coached by Seton-La Salle assistant Ron Mumbry.
There's no question the AAU scene has helped Mathias' stock.
"I played my first year (in high school), and I played AAU," Fox Chapel coach Meaghan Meabon said. "It's totally different than high school, but this year was a great experience for Erin. She stepped into her role nicely. She can take that experience into next year. She is only going to get better. And we have a nine-player nucleus to build around."
Mathias could have a busy summer. In addition to AAU, she has been invited to try out for the U.S.16-and-under team in May in Colorado Springs. About 200 girls will try out for 20 spots; of the 200, 34 were by invitation only, including Mathias.
Mathias is looking forward to her sophomore season at Fox Chapel — after another AAU campaign.
"I feel like there's a little pressure off," she said, "now that I know I am committed."
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Kiski Area baseball player Logan Brown will face his former teammates Monday when the Cavaliers host Central Catholic. Brown, a junior, is originally from Leechburg, but he transferred to Central Catholic for his freshman and sophomore seasons before returning to Kiski Area.
"I was tired of that drive," he said. "It was an hour each way."
An outfielder/closer, Brown is getting some Division I attention. Youngstown State has made him a scholarship offer.
ESPN to feature La Roche
The La Roche men's basketball team will be featured in a segment Monday on ESPN's NCAA preview show, which begins at 6 p.m.
ESPN cameras followed La Roche after its coach, Scott Lang, died in December. La Roche persevered, winning the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference title and making the Division III Tournament for the first time.
Former Fox Chapel coach Harry Jenkins since has been named coach of the Redhawks, who went 18-2 under his tutelage. Jenkins, who lives in Indiana Township, coached Fox Chapel for 25 years, most recently in 2005.
Driscoll nominees
Six A-K athletes were nominated for the Judge John Driscoll Excellence Awards, given annually to one male and one female student-athlete from Westmoreland County. The local nominees are Dave Yakopec and Travis McKillop of Burrell, Felicia Reid and Ryan Kennedy of Kiski Area, and Allison Rayburn and Christopher Capo of Valley.
Two student-athletes from 18 county schools are nominated, and 11 finalists are chosen before the winners are picked. They will be announced during a banquet April 26 at Ferrante's Lakeview on Route 30 near Greensburg.
'Rare' event
Knoch is firing up the grill again for March Madness.
Knoch's boys basketball boosters will have their traditional "Steak Night" event at 6:30 p.m. Monday at Hotel Saxonburg. It is a gathering of fans to watch the NCAA basketball championship game, and past events have drawn more than 100 people.
A $40 fee includes a steak dinner and refreshments. For more information, contact Tom Gallagher at 724-312-4472 or Ron Junk at 412-670-6446.
Burrell starts the season as the top-ranked Class AA baseball and softball team in the WPIAL by the Tribune-Review News Service. In baseball, Freeport is No. 8, and Ford City is No. 9. Leechburg is No. 8 in Class A. Valley softball is No. 2 in Class AAA. ... Section 4-AAA baseball is off to a 1-10 start. ... Kiski Area basketball player Celena Meighan will continue her career at Pitt-Greensburg.


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Cobham roads began to resurface yesterday afternoon after some of the worst flooding in recent years started to drain away.
The Painshill roundabout was once again visible are being temporarily lost beneath inches of water after the River Mole overflowed into the town, but flood signs were left in place as a precaution.
Along Mill Road, the River Hill structure was just visible as river levels remained high, with water covering the grassed areas and taking over the pavement. The town has suffered flooding twice in as many weeks after some of the worst rain and storms since the 1960s hit the UK.
At St Andrew's Church, clergy, parishioners and church staff swooped in to help remove items in the parish office after floodwater crept in on Christmas Eve.
David Taylor, churchwarden, said Churchgate House had about 1ft of water at the rear and slightly less in the front ahead of Christmas.
He said: "The building is now out of action and will be out of action for three months. On Christmas Eve, as the floods were coming up, everything was taken out of the building and we are now setting up an office in the church. It is something we could do without.
"We are not happy but I have to say I am really grateful for the people who came out and helped us, including some young people who helped across the way. It is nice to see the community coming together and helping one another."
Mr Taylor said during the second spout of bad weather, the water was just a few inches away from getting into the building once again and said a "long term view" about the parish centre will have to be taken.


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Walking into the indelible boutique, Frankie & Jules is like being transported to a roadside vintage wonderland. Beautifully decorated as though it were an antique dealer's personal collection, the store is as fun to admire as it is to shop in. If you're looking for chic yet affordable statement pieces, Frankie & Jules is a prime spot to hunt for that perfect piece!
Names: Lisa Ismert and Jocelyn Duffield
Positions: Co-Managers
CollegeFashionista: What is the inspiration behind Frankie & Jules?
Lisa Ismert: Wanting to bring unique fashion ideas to the area at affordable prices. Wanting to dress women in unique things. Wanting to be more of a destination shop.
CF: How does the shop inspire the way you work?
LI: Our inspiration really is trying to ask customers as they come in if we can help them. Our biggest thing is that first and foremost we're helping the customer find what they need and make them feel like they're at home and they can come back and find stuff for another event. We want to make them happy first.
Jocelyn Duffield: I even feel like just the way that we feel is very homey, friendly; it makes people feel more comfortable. You're not in a starch white building where it feels so high class that it's really intimidating. With us, it feels like an old house, it's very close and cozy. I think that makes people more comfortable and willing to come out of the box and even just talk to us.
CF: How has Frankie & Jules altered your perspective on fashion?
LI: I guess my style evolved with what we have here, it's so eclectic. Some days I may feel like wearing a really girly dress and other days we're in jeans and tops. That's the great part of not loving everything that comes in to the shop because it also means that there's somebody else out there. That's the best part, you don't want everyone looking the same, you know, you want everyone to look different.
CF: What trends do you like for summer right now? If you're thinking ahead to fall, what trends are you looking forward to the most?
LI: A huge trend that we haven't seen in the past is the crop top, which got really big this season. Also the palazzo pant, our customers have not been afraid to wear it this season. We sort of introduced it last year, it was very trendy on the coasts, but I think not a lot of people were wearing it so others were intimidated. They didn't want to be first one to step out to a nice dinner and be wearing a palazzo pant.
JD: I'm obsessed with our chiffon dusters, just because it adds so much to a basic outfit. It comes in so many different varieties. You can wear it with a maxi dress, wear it with jeans and wear it with boots. It's my favorite.
Learn more: Check out Frankie & Jules' online site here, their Instagram (Jocelyn models some of the store's pieces!), or visit their main store at 15495 Quivira Rd. in Overland Park, Kansas.


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A cold and wet spring has Manitoba farmers watching over fields of streams that have delayed the seeding season and threaten the fall harvest.
Typically, farmers begin seeding their land in the last week of April or first week of May but poor weather -- including snow two weeks ago that took three days to melt in parts of the province -- has put them way behind schedule. It has reached the point where many farmers are considering abandoning their traditional crops such as corn and soy beans in favour of faster-growing ones, such as barley and flax, said Don Dewar, a Dauphin-area farmer.
"People are starting to question global warming. The land just isn't drying up. The soil is cold and the crops that are seeded are very slow growing. I seeded some canola in the first week of May that should have the ground covered by now and you can barely see the roses of the crop. The ground should be covered with plants," he said.
"It's a real struggle. Some farmers haven't been able to start (seeding) and don't know when they'll be able to start. People will try to grow their canola. Different varieties mature quicker. There's a yield loss on those varieties but at least you still get the crop."
Dewar said this spring's weather is the worst in recent history and is reminiscent of a particularly miserable seeding season in the mid-'70s.
"As I recall, we had some crops freeze on us (in the fall)," he said.
Some of the central and eastern areas of Manitoba that border the Red River, which flooded earlier this spring, are still under water.
"I'm not sure some of those guys are going to get a crop in there this year. There's still water running out of the fields there," said Ian Wishart, president of Keystone Agricultural Producers in Winnipeg. "It is really wet there. They need a lot of good weather."
A late start to the growing season significantly increases the risk of crops freezing in the fall before they've reached maturity for harvest and it also impacts farmers' income. The rule of thumb is one per cent yield is lost for every day of seeding delays.
Bruce Burnett, director of weather and crop surveillance for the Canadian Wheat Board in Winnipeg, said the beginning of June is considered late to be planting crops such as wheat, canola and corn.
"In agriculture, we all seem to be optimists about these things," Burnett said. "So, hopefully we get a window here so that most of this land can get planted."
The situation in Manitoba is in stark contrast to conditions in Saskatchewan and Alberta, where the ground is so dry, farmers are worried seeds may not germinate because they're sitting in dust.
"They're looking for rain, they can have some of ours," said Robert McLean, a farmer near Manitou in southern Manitoba. "It's been such a cool, damp spring, it's never really dried out."
McLean said he only has 40 per cent of his canola and wheat crops seeded. Normally, he'd be finished by this time of year, but most of his fields aren't dry enough to be seeded.
He confirmed that grass isn't showing yet in any of his pastures either and he's run out of hay for his cattle. But there's a slight hint of optimism in his tone.
"It's gotta warm up one of these times, right?" he said.
Dewar agreed and said a stretch of hot and windy weather can help farmers catch up pretty quickly.
"The prayer mats have been out for awhile," he said.
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The O'Farrell government has criticised NSW Opposition Leader
Mr Robertson told media on Saturday he was "shocked" when, he said, Mr McGurk offered him a $3 million bribe for the tender of Union NSW's cottages resort at Currawong in Sydney.
"I immediately rejected the offer outright and made it absolutely clear that all offers had to go through the tender process and therefore I was satisfied that was the end of the matter," Mr Robertson said. "The bid in question was rejected by Unions NSW following the tender process."
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Propiety of sale defended
Mr Robertson has previously defended accusations of a conflict of interest over Unions NSW's sale of Currawong in 2007 to developer
The property was the subject of a 2011 ICAC investigation which found former Lands Department head
While anyone could refer a matter to ICAC, the duty to report alleged wrongdoing only applied to principal officers or workers at public authorities, ministers, the Ombudsman and police commissioner. A Unions NSW spokesman backed Mr Robertson, saying the Currawong sale had been fully investigated by ICAC.
"ICAC found absolutely no evidence of corruption on the part of Unions NSW or its officials," he said. "Unions NSW secretary
Opposition legal affairs spokesman Paul Lynch said union officials did not come under the same jurisdiction as public officials and ICAC did not have proper jurisdiction to investigate McGurk's alleged bribe.
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Watch: First Teaser Trailer for Laika's Stop-Motion 'ParaNorman' Film
by Ethan Anderton
October 28, 2011
Source: Yahoo
After Laika and Focus Features brought us Coraline a couple years back, I was eagerly anticipated their next collaboration in the form of ParaNorman, another stop-motion animated feature with the voice talent of Kodi Smit-McPhee (Let Me In) as our new main character Norman. Now we have the first trailer for the film about a boy who can speak to the dead and must save his town from a zombie uprising, and damn does it look exquisite. With meticulously crafted characters and set pieces, this looks to be just as marvelous and charmingly twisted as Henry Selick's adaptation of Coraline, with its own cute quirks. See the trailer below!
Watch the first teaser trailer for Focus Features & Laika's ParaNorman, in high def via Yahoo:
Norman, a boy who's able to speak with the dead, has to take on zombies, ghosts, witches and, worst of all, grown-ups, to save his small town from a centuries-old curse. The voice cast: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Tucker Albrizzi, Casey Affleck, Anna Kendrick, Chris Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin and John Goodman.
ParaNorman is being directed by Sam Fell (director on The Tale of Despereaux and Flushed Away) & Chris Butler (storyboard on Coraline and Corpse Bride). The original screenplay is by Chris Butler. Stop-motion animation studio Laika is producing out of Portland, OR, with Focus Features distributing. ParaNorman is currently set to land in theaters in 3D starting August 17th, 2012 late next summer. Look good so far?
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Christine's Ark
John Little Christine Townend
The extraordinary story of Christine Townend and an Indian animal shelter
Christine Townend is an extraordinary person, who has dedicated her life to helping the most vulnerable creatures in our society – the animals that we rely on for food, labour or just companionship.
In the 1970s she founded Animal Liberation in an attempt to prevent cruel farming practices. It made her a highly controversial figure yet Christine never turned away from her mission to lessen animal suffering.
While Animal Liberation did enormous good, Christine's real lifework was still ahead of her. A visit to India in 1990 offered her the opportunity to take over a decrepit animal shelter just outside the city of Jaipur, called Help in Suffering. When she first arrived it contained little more than a few stray dogs and the odd goat. Yet from that small beginning Christine has had an immense impact across the length and breadth of the country, transforming the lives of thousands of animals and the people who rely on them for their livelihood.
During this remarkable journey she has had to constantly balance her determination to make a difference with her loyalty to her husband and two sons.
Christine's Ark is an inspiring and poignant story of India, its animals and its people, and of one woman's unwavering struggle to change the world for the better.
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Kerry, Saudi counterpart deny big rift
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Secretary of State John Kerry and his Saudi counterpart, Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal, strongly denied any significant breach of the U.S.-Saudi relationship on Monday, while acknowledging differences on tactics, particularly over Syria.
Although he emphasized U.S. commitment to a negotiated settlement in Syria, Kerry said at a news conference with al-Faisal that the United States will "continue to support the opposition" fighting against Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces.
"We will not stand idly by while Assad continues to use weapons enormously disproportionate to those in the possession of the opposition in order to kill ... women and children," the chief U.S. diplomat said.
Overriding his interpreter to speak in fluent English, al-Faisal said: "If one is making a moral choice to intervene or not to intervene, what is that choice going to be? Do I let the tragedy continue, or do I help if I can?"
Not only are scores of thousands of people being killed, al-Faisal said, but Syria's rich cultural heritage is being destroyed.
Kerry met with Saudi King Abdullah II. Kerry said before the visit that he wanted to "make sure that the Saudi Arabian-U.S. relationship is on track," despite deep differences over high-profile policy issues in the region, including Syria, Iran and Egypt.
"The Saudis are very, very important to all of these things," Kerry said during a stop at the U.S. Embassy. "The Saudis have an ability to be able to influence a lot of the things that we also care about and we work together on."
Kerry's visit to this desert kingdom was hastily appended to a scheduled North Africa trip when the Saudis became increasingly public in their disapproval of the Obama administration's cautious stance toward Syria's civil war, its negotiations with Iran and its failure to fully support the Egyptian military that in the summer overthrew an elected government.
Along with Israel, the Arab nations are concerned that the United States will strike a nuclear deal not to their liking with Iran, Saudi Arabia's main regional rival and Israel's principal outside threat.
From Saudi Arabia, Kerry was to travel Monday evening to Poland. He will return to the Middle East, stopping in the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Israel and the West Bank. Before returning to Washington on Nov. 12, Kerry will visit Algeria and Morocco.


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To look at the impossibly cute nineteen year old singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini, you'd think he would sound like a choirboy. Instead, his voice is kind of half gravel-toned soul crooner and half drunken, toothless tramp. It's a curious mix, but it works. His decidedly unteenage voice lends some weight these sometimes forgettable tunes—and it's infinitely preferable to the grating, whiney tones of someone like James Blunt. Nutini is already something of a star back in Britain, where his debut record, These Streets has sold by the bucketload, and it's not difficult to see why. It's catchy and polished with enough rough-edged soul to suggest you're getting the real deal. This EP features pretty faithful live versions four of the album's best songs, and though it's mostly inconsequential stuff, it does showcase a promising talent.
Whether or not these songs are a product of Nutini's own imagination (a predictable array of co-writers are listed in the credits), they undeniably possess a naïve charm that's difficult not to warm to. "These Streets" is a lovely starry-eyed ballad about being lost in the big city, which seems to be grounded in some genuine emotion. It sounds a bit like the sort of song that Rod Stewart used to croon before he discovered leopard-print leggings. Even better is "Jenny, Don't Be Hasty", an almost strutting blues track that shows a refreshing willingness to shake up the singer-songwriter formula up a bit. "Last Request" is a decent, earnest pop song that sounds far better live, and "New Shoes" seems to be a ballad about, er, shoes. In truth, there's nothing too memorable about Paolo Nutini, save for his whiskey-and-fags-flecked voice (he's actually barely old enough to smoke, let alone get served in a bar, but hey), but it's a potentially great sound. With the right material and a bit more weathered experience behind him, Paolo Nutini could be a name to watch.
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NEWPORT County AFC manager Justin Edinburgh is targeting a win over Wycombe Wanderers today before he can concentrate on planning for next season.
Edinburgh has already stated that he will be busy in the summer with a major overhaul of the playing squad following the downturn in results since Christmas.
But he knows that his side need three more points to put the threat of relegation to bed and a win over the third from bottom Chairboys this afternoon (kick-off 3.07pm) would do nicely.
"There's no doubt that we need to get back to winning ways at home," said Edinburgh.
"We've had some good results on the road but at home we've stuttered and we've got three home games left now as we aim to end the season on a high.
"I think if we're going to be in this league next year we need three more points and there would be no better time to do it than in this game."
The Exiles boss is promising to make changes to his starting XI today and admits his squad needs major surgery come the end of the season.
"We need to show more quality than we have in recent weeks, offensively and defensively," he said.
"We've got some players chomping at the bit to get back in and we'll freshen things up a bit.
"As for the summer the ones that take on board what I'm telling them will be here and the ones that don't will be leaving the club.
"The group has been together for three years some of them and there have been some good times but at any workplace sometimes you can be there too long.
"Sometimes the voice of the leader doesn't always seem to motivate so the whole squad needs a freshen-up and a re-evaluation in the summer.
"As a manager you search for a successful group and I had that last year so I think it was the right thing to do to keep them together.
"Certain players have continued to develop and improve, some have stalled and some have come up short but that's about individuals stepping up to a higher level and it's a learning curve for me as a manager as well.
He added: "My immediate focus is on the next five games. We've got fifteen points to play for and we want to get as many as possible.
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VOLUNTEERS from a Wirral charity have created a community garden as part of an on-going campaign to tackle the problem of discarded rubbish.
The YMCA Wirral gardening team set to work in Whetstone Lane, Birkenhead, learning glasshouse horticultural skills before putting up hanging baskets for residents in nearby Shaw Street.
The "Street Ys" programme is the idea of YMCA Chief Executive Nigel Hughes and was launched followed a series of reports in the Globe last year about litter in Wirral.
Nigel said: "We have been working closely with neighbours in Shaw Street in an effort to resolve some of the problems surrounding litter and anti-social behavior.
"A group of our garden team and Street Y's volunteers have grown plants and made up hanging baskets which they wanted to donate to the Shaw Street residents in a effort to brighten up the street and try to do something positive locally".
Shaw Street residents are so happy woth the results they invited council leader Phil Davies and ward councillor Brian Kenny to the formal handover of the baskets.
Councillor Kenny said: "This was a fantastic initiative by the YMCA working with the local community.
"I am so impressed with the amazing floral displays in each hanging basket.
"It was an honour for me to open this initiative and I would like to formally thank Nigel Hughes from the YMCA and the residents Shaw Street for one of the best events I have ever attended."


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An estranged father raped the pregnant daughter who had tracked him down after 20 years apart and invited him to stay in her home, a court has heard.
The Melbourne woman, who cannot be named, began searching for her father in 2014 and eventually found him in Queensland.
Despite discovering he had a history of violence and had been jailed for assaults, she invited him to visit her and her family at their home.
The father, his partner and their son arrived at the woman's home in October 2014, and stayed in the spare room.
Court of Appeal Justices Simon Whelan and Anthony Cavanough said the woman told how she had been "really excited to see him [her father] here and finally meet him".
"This was the first time meeting my father. He was happy to see me too ... I was just so excited and happy to finally meet my real dad."
The judges, when agreeing to reduce the man's four-year jail sentence for incest, said the woman had been home alone with her father later in October 2014, when he told her, "Give Dad a hug."
They hugged and he then asked for another hug but this time began kissing her on the neck and had his hands around her waist, the court heard.
The woman pushed her father away, sat down and sarcastically said: "If you're gonna be like that you may as well take me to your bedroom."
The court was told the father then asked her to follow him into the bedroom before he pushed her on to the bed and raped her, saying, "I love you forever."
"I didn't say anything or do anything," the woman said.
"I felt I had to co-operate and not say anything. I was worried I might get hurt. I thought that if I tried to stop him, he would get angry.
"I knew he had a very violent past and had been in jail for physical assaults."
The court heard that the father then told his daughter to freshen up and he left.
"I was very confused with what he said and I still am," the woman said.
"I felt gross that it was my Dad. I just wanted to get in the shower as I felt so dirty."
The woman told her husband what had happened and he contacted police.
The father told police after his arrest: "OK, I'm gonna tell you. She made me have sex with her ... I tried to say no. I didn't want to lose her."
The father, 38, pleaded guilty to one count of incest and was jailed for four years with a minimum of two years but appealed his sentence.
The appeal judges agreed to reduce his jail term to three years with a minimum of 18 months after reading a psychological report about the intellectually disabled man's tragic background.
The report revealed the man, brought up in Queensland, claimed his mother had been an alcoholic who had boyfriend after boyfriend and only cared about her next pension cheque to buy more alcohol.
The man claimed he and his siblings would have Weet-Bix for breakfast and Weet-Bix with water or powdered milk for dinner.
He began smoking cannabis when he was 10 and left home a year later to live with his grandmother before beginning a relationship with a 26-year-old neighbour.
After about nine months, he moved out and lived on the streets or in youth hostels.
He was 14 when he began a relationship with his daughter's mother but claimed she walked out 26 days after giving birth to the girl when he was 18.
He claimed the daughter's mother had only wanted to get pregnant to claim the single mother's pension.
The appeal judges sentenced the father on the basis he had pleaded guilty to incest and had not been charged with rape.
The father admitted having sex with his daughter but denied raping her.
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Sherwood Forest Deadline is January 18
Posted on January 11, 2013
Do you like to write? Are you an artist? If you answered yes, then you don't want to miss your chance to get published!
Entries, in the following categories, are now being accepted for the JTCC's Sherwood Forest Art and Literary Competition:
Art (including Photography)
Fiction (2500 word limit)
Creative non-fiction (2500 word limit)
Poetry (1000 word limit)
The rules for each category are listed on the website, www.jtcc.edu/sherwoodforest.
All entries must be submitted electronically to email@example.com by no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, January 18.
Winners will be published in the College's Sherwood Forest Art & Literary Review.
If you have questions about the competition, contact Helen McKann at firstname.lastname@example.com or 594-1523, or drop by the Midlothian Library to talk to her.
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One crazy mixed up creature, he is not sure if he is Bigfoot, a yeti, Sasquatch or the Abominable snowman! He can be any of them depending on the colour yarn used.
He stands and impressive 14 inches high, and makes a great cuddly toy.
Made using fun fur or Ostrich yarn and a small amount of DK on 3 and 4mm needles.


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I'm working on a project at the moment where there are a couple pieces of information from the database that will be used in multiple locations throughout the site in a drop down selector. The list of information will not change very often.
My 2 lines of thinking out the solution for this are:
1) Query the database each time to retrieve the list into an array (it will be a single piece of data with it's associated id). Then compile that using a while (or for) loop into a series of <option> statements.
2) Use the form where the database would be edited from, and when the data is edited, THEN run the query, pass it through the while loop to construct the <option> statements, and then save that into a text file to use as an include where necessary in the other forms.
It's basically a list consisting of active and non-active records. The 2 options are to add a new record, or mark an old one inactive, then the lists would consist of ONLY active records and another consisting of ALL records. I have full control over the record edit form, so I could easily add some code to create the text file.
So, which is considered the "better" approach? Choice 1 would end up making numerous calls daily, retrieving the same list, while option 2 would only call it a few times a week when the active list is modified.
For something like that, querying a DB won't really have any performance limitations. You also have the added benefit of having the most up-to-date info. If you cache it in a file on the HDD, you may have to worry about whether or not the info is "fresh".
I don't really see any performance gains one way or the other with either approach. You may as well pull the data live from the DB.
My 2 cents.
That's basically what I was curious about, is there a performance difference? The data can only become "stale" when another particular form is used, there are no other parameters that would change the data outside of that single form. So I was thinking that by re-creating the static text file when those changes were made then database queries could be decreased. Though it is a fairly basic query, not like it is compiling data from several tables or anything.
OK, I'll just do it live each time one of those forms is requested.
Thanks for the input.
A simple SELECT query only takes a few thousandths of a second to execute. How many daily queries per day are you expecting? 100,000? If you are only talking a few dozen or even hundreds, I wouldn't worry about any performance issues about doing it the query way. Doing it with queries is going to be much easier than having to cache the data in file.
I'd cache it and include it every time as long as the admin screen responsible for updating the text file is guaranteed to update the cached file.
To satisfy yourself this is robust and dependable you may develop a few simple classes to do this work, which themselves can then be unit tested.
The cached file will end up being held in memory if you use a memcache product such as APC (even though there are caches in mysql too which you could take into consideration).
This might only be the simplest and most basic building block of an overall caching strategy, but to my mind it is a good one to have, and as I use it as often as I can.
All the questions about caching pivot on the "well, it depends ..." dilemma -- which I accept -- but starting from this basic file caching I went on and did a lot of nightly caches and builds on complex data structures, building menus, A to Zs, maps containing multiple data etc. Now this "cron driven caching" won't suit everyone, it ties the site code tightly to the OS -- but golly, it can speed up your site (don't forget "it depends....").
I say to you that you should do it (for a while at least) just to make yourself think more about caching as a strategy, then if/when you reject the idea at least you will have given yourself some concrete reasons why you do not use it -- and will be slightly better placed to decide when to use it in the future.
Cups - I was also considering how this would be beneficial for a caching strategy and keeping things clean. While there are multiple users, very few of them have the ability to manipulate the data in question. And that would only be done through the Add/Edit form for that data in the database. That is why I started to consider storing a simple text file with basic HTML code (<option value="dbvalue">dbtitle</option> lines). And then use a simple include where that is necessary on the various forms. The system could then rebuild that form as a function of adding/editing the data in the database. Database calls would then be reduced to ONLY retrieving data associated with what the end user is really concerned with.
I still think that neither solution is the "right" one, I think they both have their pros and cons, though I also don't think either one would be detrimental overall.
I do have a second group of data that would be very similar to this and used on different navigation screens, maybe I'll write one in each format and see if I notice any difficulties with either one once multiple users are accessing the system. Rewriting either one would be basically duplicating the other code and making a few basic adjustments to the SQL statement as well as for the returned data display.
I would go with the 2nd method as reading a text file is alot faster than reading a database when no sorting is required. Updating the text file is usually slower, but as it's not done very often it's OK.
I use the method a lot in my programming. My menu is a text file, the spam words/phrases are in text, current-month is an int in a text file, blocked ip's, privileged ip's, company (corporate) colours. (I could go on)Only when a lot of updating, searching or sorting is needed do I use databases
I've created a textFileDatabase library for PHP and ASP which contains file2text, file2array, line2fileStart, line2fileEnd, replaceLineinFile, replaceFile.I also use this library for other things in my site, like storing guests input so I can manually add it after checking so it keeps user input away from main databases.
A simple library to create, and very handy to have
Depending on how complex your SQL statement is that generates the data, you may want to consider a hybrid approach. Complexity increases processing time, so if you have a things in your SQL that may cause full table scans, multiple joins, or any kind of aggregate fields, the live approach isn't real great. An example of this would be a forum system, similar to this one, that reports 'Latest Posts' on the home page, and takes into account the permissions of the currently logged in user.
In the above case, it is the processing of the SQL that causes the real slowdown in high traffic situations, not fetching the results. Therefore, my recommendation is to simply author a cron job. Use this cron job to actually generate the results periodically, and then store the results in a new table. Then change the SQL in your index page to simply read the latest row(s), based on your timeout or some other 'trigger' action, from the results table. By eliminating the need to scan and collate, the hit on performance will now be negligable.
This has several benefits, including: no need to mess with changes in file permissions should you switch host OS, makes backups and replication tasks easier by keeping all site pertinent data in the same storage mechanism, requires minimal change to your current application.


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Egyptian antiquities threatened by Islamists
CAIRO — The Great Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza have been Egyptian icons for centuries of gawking tourists.
Now the 4,000-year-old wonders symbolize the growing struggle for Egypt's future.
An Islamist leader here wants to destroy the four monuments and other antiquities, just as Afghanistan's ousted Taliban dynamited ancient Buddha statues in 2001.
At the base of the pyramids and the sphinx's feet, struggling tour guides and souvenir vendors are outraged.
If Islamists harm the monuments, says one, "We will kill them."
In the past, such an idea would have been dismissed as foolish. Today it is one of many radical demands by Islamists, especially the ultra-religious Salafis who, along with the Muslim Brotherhood, seized power after the 2011 ouster of dictator Hosni Mubarak.
On Nov. 9, thousands of Salafis massed in Cairo's Tahrir Square to demand that Egypt be ruled under Shariah, or Islamic law.
Days later, Murgan Salem al-Gohary, a gray-bearded Salafi who once fought in Afghanistan, condemned "idolatrous" objects on a popular television program.
"All the pagan statues and idols that were worshipped — and, we fear, would be worshipped again, or has one person in the world worshipping it — must be destroyed," he said.
'Salafi jihadis' shareal-Qaida's ideology
Al-Gohary, 50, is one of many Salafi radicals freed from prison after last year's revolution.
Many of them lead weekly protests for "Islamization," encourage Muslim mobs to attack minority Christians, or inspire bloody battles with soldiers and police in the Sinai.
The most radical elements split from the Nour Party, the largest Salafi group. Unlike the ruling Muslim Brotherhood, Salafis have no central leader, making it easier to splinter into often competing factions.
Egyptian media refer to the wildest-eyed factions as "Salafi jihadis," a label those groups proudly wear.
In a recent interview, Muhammed Zawahiri, brother of al-Qaida leader Ayman Zawahiri, said: "All of us, whether Salafi jihadis or al-Qaida, are following the true Islamic religion with the same ideology."
Twice in the 1990s, al-Gohary was sentenced to prison in absentia for advocating violence. He fled to Afghanistan and reportedly worked with the Taliban, including its destruction of the 2,000-year-old Buddhas of Bamiyan.
Wounded during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, he fled to Syria but was handed over to Egypt and imprisoned until Mubarak's downfall.
He has called for renewing "jizya," an ancient tax on "Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians," and abolishing a tourism ministry based on "prostitution and depravity."
During his latest TV appearance, fellow guests objected to destroying antiquities.
"This is a universal heritage," said journalist Nabil Sharaf al-Din. "It doesn't belong only to you."
When a moderate Tunisian sheik pointed out that 14th-century Muslim invaders did not destroy Egypt's monuments, al-Gohary replied that they lacked modern weapons.
'These people usedto live in caves'
On the Giza Plateau, a 30-minute cab ride from downtown Cairo, only a few groups of Egyptian schoolchildren walk around the pyramids and the sphinx.
No customers browse nearby shops offering papyrus artwork, Pharaonic statues, camel and horse rides.
The men who work here are a tough breed; they handle the horses and camels used to attack Tahrir Square protesters in a bloody 2011 clash known as The Camel Battle.
Like many of them, Abdullah Nasr Fayed, 36, was born into tourism. He manages Nefr Bazaar and Guardian Travel Tourism Co., which includes a guesthouse with killer views of the pyramids.
This should be high season for tourists, but shop and guesthouse are both empty, reflecting the virtual collapse of that all-important industry since 2011.
"These people used to live in caves," Fayed said of al-Gohary and his followers. "Let them come here and see what will happen. … If you stop my ability to make a living, I will fight to survive."
Egyptians customarily laugh at adversity, and al-Gohary has inspired cartoons of the sphinx gesturing obscenely at him or sporting a Salafi-like beard.
A pro-tourism coalition said it would sue the government for "devastating" their industry by tolerating al-Gohary's provocations.
Ahmed Sobe'ei, a spokesman for the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, said the controversy "doesn't concern us" and blamed the media for "looking into the garbage bins to give the Islamic movements a bad reputation."
He insisted the Brotherhood and the Salafis "have an ambitious program to support tourism. Paying attention to weird things like this shouldn't happen."
Back at the pyramids, Fayed pointed to a single busload of foreign tourists.
"That's it, one bus," he said. "Since (Mohamed) Morsy was elected (president), the tourism business went so down. They don't care about tourism."
New hotels and resorts owned by Brotherhood members and supporters won't serve alcohol to tourists, Fayed said, and "all the strict Muslims think the pyramids and ancient history are a bad thing."
Fayed fears foreigners "won't come and visit Egypt anymore."
Vows Kamal Ali, 39, one of Fayed's workers: "If someone came here saying they want to destroy the sphinx and pyramids, we will kill them. We are the people of The Camel Battle."
Egyptian journalist Hassan Al Naggar contributed to this report. Betsy Hiel is the Tribune-Review's foreign correspondent.Email her at email@example.com.


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MISSION VIEJO – The Mission Viejo Community of Character Committee hosted its annual St. Patrick's Day Chili Cook-Off in the Saddleback Room at City Hall on Sunday afternoon. About a dozen chili chefs competed for a $100 prize and winning apron.
This year's cook-off benefits the Mission Viejo Relay for Life, coming up on June 1.


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A Gentleman Plans a Global TakeoverJanuary 14th, 2010
The quest for world domination can be approached in a variety of different methods. Politicians tend to apply the more economic pressures of tariffing and embargoing, whereas blood thirsty war lords like to approach the goal with weapons stockpiles and warfare threats. A gentleman, on the other hand, knows that to truly dominate the people of the earth, he simply needs to dance into their very souls and set up shop catering to man's most innate desires, which seem to be a simple trinity of carnal pleasures, the motivation to nullify the brain through intoxication, and the basic deliciousness of food. In the below case, this gentleman prefers to focus on the latter, and walks through some logic on how he might become supreme ruler of the Earth assisted only with the luxuries of time travel.
OnceandFutureChef: if you could fuck around with a time machine
OnceandFutureChef: would you go into the future? or into the past?
OnceandFutureChef: (you can only go in one direction)
OnceandFutureChef: for instance, you could go to the future and just be shocked at all the new technology… but, you could go into the past and shock everyone else with your own knowledge of technology and shit
DizzyWizzard : definitely the past
DizzyWizzard : but not too far back where i have to compromise comfort
DizzyWizzard : id like to go far enough back where i'd be the shit with all my gizmos, but not too far back where shit sucks
DizzyWizzard : like i dont want to deal with the plague
OnceandFutureChef: i would def go to the dark ages
OnceandFutureChef: i'd "invent" things like pizza and donuts
OnceandFutureChef: become the head chef and confidante of the king and use him as my puppet for power
OnceandFutureChef: if i went into the future i would be a cave man
DizzyWizzard : hahaha
OnceandFutureChef: wouldn't know how to work the telepathy machines
OnceandFutureChef: it would suck
DizzyWizzard : so you would go back in time and invent donuts
OnceandFutureChef: yeah, just be some super wise wizard, inventing the most delicious shit
OnceandFutureChef: hell i don't think hamburgers were "invented" until the 50s
DizzyWizzard : invent alcohol
OnceandFutureChef: i think alcohol has been around since the dinosaurs
OnceandFutureChef: Neanderthals fermenting hooch in brontosaurus skulls and stuff. So that wouldn't work
DizzyWizzard : you're insane
DizzyWizzard : i like how being a chef would make you the most powerful dude in the realm
OnceandFutureChef: it would. can you imagine knowing the secrets of say Butter?
OnceandFutureChef: you're the only guy that knows how to make butter
OnceandFutureChef: you'd be a ruler
DizzyWizzard : uh, i guess so
OnceandFutureChef: that's how fucking Marco Polo was so big. spice trader
DizzyWizzard : well, he was also a sea fairing gent. and back then they thought the sea was filled with monsters
OnceandFutureChef: yeah
DizzyWizzard : that gave him slightly more cache
OnceandFutureChef: yeah he was the man. Importing spices and gunpowder. he was like the most powerful man in the world for a while
DizzyWizzard : but you'd just be fat and in the kitchen making shit
DizzyWizzard : not much of a swashbuckler
OnceandFutureChef: no, i would do all that shit
OnceandFutureChef: i'd invent like hot air balloon and do the spice and gun powder trading
OnceandFutureChef: it would be like magic
OnceandFutureChef: and remember, back in the day it was considered a sign of wealth to be rotund. a sign of success and wisdom
OnceandFutureChef: c'mon, being the only guy around that knows how to make french fries?
OnceandFutureChef: please, you'd be considered a god
OnceandFutureChef: fucking "invent" the meatball sub
OnceandFutureChef: be worshipped forever
DizzyWizzard : hahaha
DizzyWizzard : would you invent pizza or go straight to the pizzone?
DizzyWizzard : when would you introduce garlic butter dipping sauces?
DizzyWizzard : you'd have to stagger it all. allow their palates to adjust
OnceandFutureChef: blow their minds when we come out with the Taco
OnceandFutureChef: followed by the Burrito
OnceandFutureChef: followed by the Chalupa and so on
DizzyWizzard : what if your plan backfired and they got suspect of you and labeled you a Food Witch. They'd burn you at the stake
OnceandFutureChef: jesus you are right
DizzyWizzard : the whole town filled with the delicious fumes of your trans fat loaded gut as it roasted over an open fire
OnceandFutureChef: they would burn me alive. fucking pitchforks and torches all the way up the path to my estate
DizzyWizzard : an angry mob who no longer fear your powers cause they realize it wasnt magic. you just duped them with trans fats
OnceandFutureChef: i better rethink this fucking shit
DizzyWizzard : this is all very reminescent of an episode of ducktails in which Gyro Gearloose goes back in times and becomes the kings favorite subject thanks to his "inventions"
OnceandFutureChef: exactly
DizzyWizzard : was this whole debate inspired by that?
OnceandFutureChef: no, but i would love to see that again


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LeBron James rejects comparisons to Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali
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Cavaliers star LeBron James is often compared to elite athletes, but he rejected the latest comparison to Michael Jordan when speaking to the media on Tuesday.
On Monday, former Bulls coach Phil Jackson said the Cavaliers could come back from 0–2 in the playoffs just as the 1993 Bulls did if James plays like "a man possessed" in the same way Jordan did in that series. When asked about the comment, James rebuffed the need to emulate anyone else's style of play.
"I mean, what does that actually mean?" LeBron said of Jackson's statement. "I mean, I think for me to go out and be who I am and play as true to the game and as hard as I can and try to lead this team, that's who I am. Not anybody else. I'm not Michael. I'm not Ali. I'm not nobody else that's done so many great things for sport.
• LeBron James: Muhammad Ali was a 'pioneer' for black athletes
"I am who I am, and if I'm able to go out and put together a game like that, it wasn't because I was possessed. It's because I worked on my craft all season long and that's the result of it. Phil's a great coach. Mike's a great player. But I am who I am."
• NADKARNI: How will LeBron recover from another one-sided NBA Finals?
The Cavaliers will play the Warriors in Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET.


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It's massive - thought to be one of the largest paintings ever commissioned in Australia.
So huge that it took Sydney artist Guan Wei and four assistants almost a year to complete at the former Casula power station, near Liverpool - one of the few buildings with enough floor space to allow them to work on the painting.
This week the Beijing-born artist will put the final protective coat on Feng Shui, his epic 18 metre by 6 metre work, destined to become one of the symbols of Melbourne's rejuvenated Docklands development.
By the weekend, the painting will be heading down the Hume Highway for its final destination, the imposing glass foyer of 700 Collins Street, the new home of Victoria's Bureau of Meteorology.
Guan Wei, 46, was one of four artists invited to submit designs for the $120,000 commission offered by the developers. His was chosen because of its theme exploring the relationship between man and the environment.
Since arriving in 1989, after the massacre in Tiananmen Square, Guan Wei has become a respected Australian artist. This new work is the largest he has ever worked on.
He and his four assistants initially transferred his design onto the entire canvas. Then, while the assistants applied the basic colours, Guan Wei placed each of the 120 panels in turn onto an easel to apply the fine details. The resulting picture, says the artist, contains references to the Australian passion for water, the arrival of Captain Cook, our beach culture, and the need for harmony between mankind, fish and birds.
Does he know of any larger paintings in Australia? "No, the largest I know is the one in the Opera House by John Olsen, but that's only half the size of this."
Guan Wei - who is planning an exhibition at the Sherman Galleries in Paddington in September - says his painting has been influenced by Australia. "When I was in China, my work was much more political. When I arrived here, it changed.
"I've had four different titles since I came to live here. At first I was called a Chinese artist. Then Chinese-Australian. A few years later I was called Australian-Chinese. Now they call me an Australian artist. I think that shows how my work has changed and how Australians have come to accept it."
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These are Iron Man mash-ups like you've never seen them before. Artist Sam Kwok uses amazing Hot Toys Iron Man action figures and makes them even more amazing with sculpted pieces and a new paint job. His vision takes Iron Man everywhere from Spawn to Hello Kitty.
Check out more of his amazing work after the break.
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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
Remember the days where you had to wait in line at Starbucks (SBUX) or Dunkin Donuts (DNKN), or even (God forbid) actually brew a whole pot of coffee with filters and all that nonsense?
Me neither.
Nowadays, making a fresh cup of coffee simply requires the quick push of a button, thanks to Green Mountain Coffee Roasters' (GMCR) Keurig technology. The machine's "K-cups" allow you to brew a single serving of your favorite coffee, tea or hot chocolate in less than a minute.
In fact, the technology — which Green Mountain acquired through a buyout — changed the coffee game so much that it tripled GMCR's stock price in early 2011. Granted, that momentum soon came crashing to an end amid growing competition like Starbucks' Verismo and others, but Green Mountain has steadied itself since then, and it has nearly doubled so far in 2013.


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Morocco, Marrakech
Riad Massin ~ Atlas Mountains ~ Jardin Majorelle ~ Souks
21.10.2008 - 24.10.2008
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We arrived around 8pm and were dropped off infront a local restaurant full of people watching one single TV. Immediatly intrigued by our surroundings, we unloaded our bags from the 1985 mercedes diesel. I'm sure we looked like circus clowns to the locals... 5 girls spilling out of the car, several bags (sorry, I can vouch for that) and our main acessory, the American accent. Trying not to cause any attention to ourselves we organized our bags and were greeted by a man from our hostel, Yusuff the Riad Massin. Our future best friend, Yusif, led us through narrow, 3 story, moroccan style building corridors to our destination. A little castle/munchkin-like door was where we were brought to; as the door was answered, the last few glances to eachother were those of hesitation. I think we all stopped holding our breath once the door was answered by a woman in traditional moroccan style robes, and a genuine smile.
The hospitality was absolutly wonderful. Upon our arrival, we were presented their traditional Mint Tea (Moroccan Wisky). The presentation of the mint tea is a large part of their culture, it may have been the best ethnic welcoming I've had. There's a specific process to make the tea which entails serveral steps of adding the sugar, tea and mint. They consider it an art form which is fixed and proured a specific way. Really interesting to watch, and the taste wasn't bad at all... minty tea with a ton of sugar, I'll take two please.
After spending our first night at the Riad, we arranged to take a day trip to the Atlas Mountains. What we really wanted to do was take the 3 day excursion to the desert; with camels, sights, camping and 4x4's... but 3 days there limited us, and let's not complain, we are in Morocco. A beautiful view of the valleys consumed our attention on the way to the mountains, along with people riding donkeys, as often as cars on the road.
Our first stop was a family's house half way up the mountain. The house overlooked a valley where you could see a few small cities in the distance. The family was wonderful, extremely welcoming and generous. They had a 1 person "sauna", cows in their living room and 3 balconys. The women showed us how bread was cooked over an open fire and served us authentic honey, butter and olive oil. All three tasted very different from what I've had before... probably beacuse theirs no chemicals, pesticides, preservatives. Shocking on what food should really taste like. The family seemed to be close to Yusiff, our guide/parent for the week. He brings people there and they share their house and lifestyle with tourists. I thought it was perfect, how much closer can you get to authentic moroccan life? Exactly what I wanted to see.
... What we've all been waiting for... the camels. After we thanked the family for their hospitality, we we're off to our next adventure. The party bus pulled off the side of the mountain road and there sat about 6 camels... and a baby one! No way, we we're all so pumped... 1 - Seeing a Camel, 2 - Seeing a BABY Camel. It was great. The camels marinate on the ground with their legs tucked underneath until it's time to go for a stroll. They were so sweet and never once did I see one spit! We took a little mountain ride on them, sat and basked in the sun, in all our glory. No complaints here.
About 45 minutes up the mountain, we stopped and began our trek to the waterfall. It was about an hour hike to the top, only stopping for pictures and a few leaps over/in some streams. At some points throughout the climb, the path was so narrow that if you took a wrong step, the adventure could have quickly turned into base jumping rather then a hike.
We crossed paths with two Moroccan woman who had an enormous amount of mint leaves being carried on their backs. She said something to me as I was hiking up, I couldn't understand, but she had a smile on her face and seemed friendly. I had my camera in hand and held it up, gesturing for a picture?... our friendly relationship, only seconds old, was quickly terminated. She started yelling god knows what, at me, which I translated into "Don't take my picture you stupid American tourist bitch." Before I was pushed off the side of the Atlas'.. I put my camera away and somehow motioned "I'm Sorry"... is there a universal sign for "I'm Sorry"?. I need to find out before I have any more foreign encounters.
We reached the waterfall and it really was amazing... before you could see it, you could hear it. To stop, look around, and realize where I was.. was wierd. Knowing that you are standing on the top of the Atlas Mountains under a waterfall, with only mountains in view. I mean, if someone wants to go and find themselves, this would be the place to do it.
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Milton Glaser ShopTalk
Memorable moments from our recent talk with the lauded designer
Now 83 years old, Milton Glaser has become a name synonymous with meaningful graphic design. With a decades-long career under his belt that includes creating the iconic "I (Heart) NY" logo and many others, as well as co-founding Pushpin Studios and New York Magazine, the beloved designer is still brimming with ideas and advice. Last week we had the opportunity to both listen to and speak directly with Glaser as part of MoMA Design Store's ShopTalk series where he recounted some of his recent work and the process behind his collection of clocks produced exclusively for the MoMA Design Store in late 2012.
Describing himself as simply "a person who likes to make things," Glaser prefers to avoid what he feels are overly rigid titles of artist or graphic designer. This unassuming attitude toward design as a whole led MoMA to enlist Glaser to try his hand at product design. Approaching the task with one central question in mind ("How do you avoid the boring?") Glaser created three clocks that do more than just tell time—a function, he feels, rendered unnecessary by cell phones. First and foremost he wanted the clocks to "create an atmosphere, and to be charming" and secondly, they must act as decoration, and be mutable.
"If you spend your life doing what you love, the speed at which the world goes on and changes around you is irrelevant."
"I don't follow any designers, it's not my character. I mean there are a lot of young, good practitioners. I actually should be more conscious of what's going on in the field but I've never used the field as my resource, I use history—and an awful lot of history I still don't understand," Glaser told us in regards to finding inspiration in the contemporary design community. "You know at a certain point you're out of the mainstream because all of the practitioners that are central to your profession are in their 40s and 50s and are involved in different types of activities, so the field itself becomes no longer instructive. It's mostly people that're working under the assumption that they're right and it's very hard to then return to the center of activity."
In closing Glaser left us with one last piece of sound advice that really resonated. "If you spend your life doing what you love, the speed at which the world goes on and changes around you is irrelevant." Find Glaser's clock collection through MoMA Design Store online and in person.
Portrait by Graham Hiemstra, clock images courtesy of MoMA


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Tickets for each show can be purchased through Ticketmaster or at the casino's retail store, Sundries. Full story »
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