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If it's not big enough to be a full-on war, let's call it a price skirmish, but either way, it could be a sign of hope for savers.
Last week, Barclays, a huge British bank, launched a new online savings account in the U.S. market. To sweeten the pot, they slapped a market-leading APR of 1 percent on the account. According to an article by the Financial Times, Barclays made the move in order to "secure cheaper and more stable funding for planned growth in its international credit card business."
Putting aside the fact that deposit rates are low enough to make a 1 percent APR for liquid savings seem game-changing, the Barclays announcement was good news for savers in and of itself. It's always good to see more banks competing for deposits in the U.S. market, because that has the potential to push up rates across the board as banks compete for capital.
But then, yesterday, something out of the ordinary happened. CIT Bank quietly changed its savings yield, which had been cruising at .85 percent, to 1.05 percent to leapfrog Barclay's for the top spot on Bankrate's savings rate table.
Of course, this may end up being just an outlier to the overall trend of continuously falling savings rates. But if we see more of this type of one-upmanship among banks, it could be a sign things are finally turning around for savers.
What do you think? Will rates on savings accounts turn around soon, or are we destined for a long stay in the APR doldrums?
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Here's a product you don't hear much about anymore: the desktop PC. Yawn, right?
Although the big, boring, and boxy device may seem as dead as the VCR, don't be so quick to give it a thumbs-down. Any technology you buy for your small business should be justified by its potential return on investment and not its "coolness" factor.
Reasons to Consider a Desktop PC
Here are four reasons to consider purchasing a desktop instead of a laptop:
1. Affordability — Desktop PCs almost always cost less than laptops and tablets. You can find decent, low-priced systems — at least 4 GB of memory, a 500 GB hard drive, three USB 2.0 ports, a third-generation Intel core processor, and a monitor — for $450 or so. (Don't worry about a discrete graphics card unless you plan to do a lot with graphics or video.)
2. Expandability — Because desktops are relatively spacious inside, they offer more room to upgrade than laptops. Simply open the box and pop in more memory, a larger hard drive, or a faster graphics card. (If this makes you nervous, get someone to help you.) You'll also find more external ports for hooking up storage drives, DVD-Rs, and so on, without having to use a USB hub.
3. Ease of maintenance — All of the reasons that make it easy to expand a desktop system (see #2) also make it relatively simple to maintain. Jobs that would send your laptop to a repair shop can be handled by anyone on your staff who is moderately handy and familiar with computers. Changing a hard drive or installing a video card are surprisingly straightforward tasks.
4. Power — As a small-business owner, you may need a lot of computing power at times, perhaps to edit a video for your website or to design a professional marketing brochure. The software applications you'll use for those jobs, such as Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop, generally run best on a beefy desktop that's equipped with a high-end graphics card. What's more, these apps tend to tax the processor hard, which generates heat, a problem for many laptops.
Tips for Buying a Desktop PC
Is a desktop PC a good investment for your business? Here are several things to keep in mind when making purchase decisions.
- One size does not fit all. Think about your computing needs as a whole: Some employees, such as sales reps in the field, obviously may benefit from using a laptop. Others, such as the folks in the back office, may do just fine with a basic desktop.
- The latest all-in-one PCs are quite stylish. Depending on what type of business you're in, coolness might count for something. A snazzy all-in-one PC on the receptionist's desk may help dress up the room and make a positive impression on your customers. (They are, however, less easy to maintain.)
- You may need to spring for a monitor. Don't buy the cheapest one you can find. Your employees will be more comfortable and more productive if they don't have to stare at a
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Flutter Cowl
Flutter Cowl is knit with 2 balls of Kiwi yarn by Zealana. This lace weight yarn knits up in a delightful light and airy yet warm cowl. The fun fluttery lace stitch matched with some dropped stitches creates the perfect cowl.
This pattern may be knit in any yarn, just change the needles to create the perfect scarf for you.
This scarf is knit in 1 section and is seamed at the cast on edges.
Measurements : 12 inches by 48 inches
K– knit
K2tog -Knit two stitches together as one stitch
Ssk -Slip one stitch as if to knit, Slip another stitch as if to knit. Insert left-hand needle into front of these 2 stitches and knit them together
Yo—Yarn over
Materials Needed:
2 balls of Zealana Kiwi Lace Weight 40% NZ Merino, 30% Organic Cotton, 30% Possum
US 3 - 3.25 mm straight needles
Please note gauge is not important with this project.


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JANE'S ADDICTION Announce Remix Contest To Win $1,000 And More; Release Date for 'The Great Escape Artist' Changed. [Video]
Jane's Addiction, living legends in alternative rock, have teamed up with Indaba Music to create a remix contest around their latest single, "Irresistible Force". The swirling, moody and epic composition is taken from the band's anticipated new album 'The Great Escape Artist', set for release on October 4th, 2011.


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JCPenney recently made headlines with the penalization it received from Google based on some suspect search engine optimization (SEO) approaches.
The Story
The New York Times recently published an article on "Search Optimization and Its Dirty Little Secrets," which explored JCPenney's suspicious search domination over the holiday season, and its eventual ranking demise due to Google's reaction to its seemingly spam-like activities.
The New York Times gathered evidence to show that JCPenney had been engaged in under-handed SEO tactics including the placement of thousands of irrelevant links on irrelevant websites.
The spam team at Google investigated and JCPenney was penalized for its SEO approaches by being dropped in the rankings from the first page to the sixth or seventh page.
The Problem – What Went Wrong?
Search engines like Google assess the quality and relevance of a website for a given keyword based on a myriad of factors. Google's number one goal is to provide a good user experience that keeps users coming back. They want the site with the most relevant content for a given keyword to come up at the top of the search engine results. Of the many factors its algorithm uses to make this assessment, the inbound links pointing into a website is arguably one of the most important.
All other things equal, the more links you have pointing to your website using your target keyword in the "anchor text" (hyperlink), the higher you will rank on that keyword.
That said, not all links are created equal, and not all approaches to acquiring inbound links are considered legitimate.
Google looks negatively upon links from sites that are irrelevant or that have poor authority (judged partially by PageRank). Having a link to a retail site that sells home goods from a site about cars is not considered relevant and in fact could be detrimental. Having a link from a site that is made up solely of links to other sites (commonly referred to as "link farms") also can do damage to your site's reputation. Google also gets suspicious when the number of links pointing to a site increase dramatically in a short period of time. Garnering thousands of links in one month when a site typically only acquires 10 to 20 in a typical month could suggest that some type of link "scheme" is underway. Finally, using "doorway" pages or mirrored sites that are designed specifically for the search engines (and not your users) is also something that Google frowns upon.
Essentially, any activities that do not appear to be authentic in nature, that are solely designed to manipulate search engine rankings, and/or that do not benefit the user will eventually be raised as a red flag by Google. Any of these suspicious or sneaky activities are often referred to as "spam" or "black-hat SEO" and will typically be penalized by Google with a reduction in rankings or – in extreme circumstances – a removal from the indexes all together.
JCPenney's approaches exhibited many of the "suspicious" behaviors outlined above, which created the red flag for Google:
- Drastic uptake of links in a short period of time.
- Links from irrelevant sites and link spamming.
- Use of a mirrored site hosted on a proxy server instead of the main JCPenney domain.
What Can We Learn From This?
In SEO, patience is everything. Anything that appears to be a "quick win" is likely going to be detrimental in the long run. It takes time to achieve quality, relevant links, and to sustain rankings over time.
Suggestions for your SEO strategy:
- Put your users first – if it's not right for the users, it's not right for the search engines.
- Focus on creating high value, relevant content and a compelling user experience, and other sites will naturally link to you.
- Make link building an ongoing activity, not something you do once a year.
- Focus on quality over quantity. A few links from trusted sources will go much further than hundreds of links of smaller, less relevant sites.
- Use paid search to quickly bolster your presence during key periods such as back-to-school or the holiday season.
- Plan your SEO efforts well in advance so that the impact comes into effect over time versus rushing to make progress in a short period.
- Select specific keywords for each main section or page of your site, versus choosing broad, all-encompassing keywords.
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Since the early 2010s, visual search has been offering users a novel alternative to keyword-based search results. But what commercial opportunities does it offer brands today?
What does voice search mean for your local SEO strategy?
The popularity of virtual assistants means voice search is on the rise. But what does it means for businesses that rely on local search traffic, and how can they ensure they aren't left behind?
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On February 28, 2017, ClickZ presented the webinar 'Still using .com? Here's why 50% of all Fortune 500 companies are about to use .brand' in association with Neustar.
Brand TLDs vs .com (part two): How can brands benefit from a .brand TLD?
In part one a few weeks ago, we discussed what brand TLDs (top level domains) are, which brands are applying for them and why they might be important. Today, we'll take an in-depth look at the potential benefits for brands, and explore the challenges brand TLDs could help solve.


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OK, so coverage of Monday's trade was pretty extensive, but in case you missed any of it here are the links:
= Trade story, with comments from GM Ray Shero, coach Dan Bylsma, Ds Alex Goligoski and Matt Niskanen: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/s_723971.html
= My big-picture analysis on what this deal means: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/penguins/s_724062.html
= Goligoski speaking on his way out: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/penguins/s_724017.html
By the way, both Niskanen and LW James Neal will be at practice today.
Now, as that analysis piece points out, there is a strong belief around the NHL that Shero isn't done dealing. What I'm hearing on that:
= There is interest within the organization, though hardly a consensus among the hockey folks, about Senators RW Alex Kovalev. From what I've heard from several sources independent of the Penguins; there are not many other team interested in acquiring Kovalev, and that the Senators are likely to hold him until close to the deadline in hopes of attracting some other bidders to drive up the price. Discussions with the Penguins are believed to have involved a low-round or conditional draft pick.
I don't see the fit with Kovalev and Bylsma's system, but I welcome readers to chip in with comments as to why he might be a good fit for this Penguins team.
= Trying to track the Penguins' available room under the salary cap is tough because assistant GM Jason Botterill has done such a masterful job of moving players up and down and all around this season to preserve every dime. Nearest as I can tell they would have sufficient room to add Kovalev, who is on an expiring contract at a $5 million hit.
(By the way, the next team looking for a GM should seriously consider Botterill despite his limited experience. He has been the assistant to Shero for only two seasons. However, as a couple of hockey folks around within the league have told me, nobody understands the salary cap better than Botterill. His grasp of the cap – not just their own, but the cap situation for other teams – might be as important to the Penguins as any of their on-ice assets.)
= Here is another option for the Penguins, at least a name I've heard has come up in discussions: Panthers LW Corey Stillman, also on an expiring deal at $3.533 million. He has scored seven goals, half the total of Kovalev.
= I fully expect the Penguins to wait until later this week, and probably until Sunday or Monday, before making their next move. When Shero uses a phrase such as "let the dust settle," as he did Monday while discussing the trades, that has in the past meant he either isn't close on something or wants to explore more options.


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No Surcharge Facebook Page launched
A No Surcharge Facebook Page has now been launched.
With the great feedback LittleMonkey has had with regards to their No Surcharge website and app, they have decided to create a No Surcharge Facebook page. With increasing numbers of companies advertising through Facebook and with more people taking to social media sites to have their opinions on places they visit, LittleMonkey thought this would carry on well from the existing website and app.
The No Surcharge Facebook page allows customers and businesses to add updates and photos of restaurants, cafes and bars that are open over public holidays and will not charge a surcharge. The page also allows people to discuss their favourite places, provide recommendations and share ideas about holiday surcharges in general. Any new businesses mentioned that do not charge a surcharge will also be added to the No-Surcharge website directory.
Before this long Queens Birthday Weekend go onto Facebook, "like" the No Surcharge page and add any businesses that you know of that fit the criteria for the No-Surcharge App and Website and have them added so people know they can visit them and not get charged extra.
Download the No-Surcharge App directly to your mobile device/s which will make it easily accessible while you are out and about. The App provides a list of places to eat, drink and takeaway from that do not add extra costs to your purchase. The No-Surcharge app is available to download from Google Play and Apple App Store.
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US PRESIDENT Barack Obama arrives in Indonesia today anxious to broaden the relationship with the emerging regional power that has been hailed as a rare exemplar of democracy in south-east Asia.
The 24-hour visit with first lady Michelle Obama is the first to Indonesia in almost 40 years for Mr Obama, who spent four years of his childhood living in Jakarta.
A warm reception seems assured and polling has indicated that Mr Obama's elevation to the presidency has transformed sentiment in Indonesia towards the US. According to a survey by the Pew Research Centre, when Mr Obama was elected in 2008, positive views among Indonesians about the US leapt from 37 per cent to 63 per cent in a year.
Mr Obama's task will be to leverage his personal popularity into lasting diplomatic and economic gains. Since it supported the dictator Suharto's rise to power in the mid-1960s, the US has enjoyed strong ties with Jakarta, notwithstanding its decision to withdraw some military co-operation 12 years ago due to human rights abuses by Indonesia's armed forces.
That co-operation was restored earlier this year but, in the meantime, Indonesia has cast its eyes elsewhere for allies as it pursues its foreign policy of ''no enemies, a thousand friends''.
Indonesia, through the regional ASEAN bloc it dominates, has signed a free-trade deal with China. Meanwhile, its economic relationship with the US has stagnated and the number of Indonesian students going to the US has halved to just 7000 in the past decade.
The expected signing of a ''comprehensive partnership'' and student exchange program will address both shortcomings.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said the relationship must be one of ''true partners'', flagging Indonesia's pivotal role as a bridge between China and the US in Asia and its commitment to ''promoting open regionalism''.
Both Mr Obama and Indonesian leader Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono know each other's countries well.
Dr Yudhoyono studied at military colleges at Fort Benning and Fort Leavenworth and gained a business degree from Webster University. He has said he considered the US his second country.


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Editorial: A good place for the money
In a couple of weeks, the Pierce County Board will vote on a request to release $54,000 from its Park Development Fund to help the town of Diamond Bluff develop and improve Sea Wing Park.
Though this is only a small share of the nearly $860,000 sitting in the park fund, it's a good use of the money.
For about two decades, Pierce County collected a park fee - ranging from $100 to $600 - each time a new residential lot was created in a rural area. The idea behind the fund was commendable -- more residents mean a greater need for recreational areas, and the money was intended to buy and develop parks.
Things didn't go as planned. Over the years, small amounts of the money were used for park development, including adding some amenities to forestland donated to the county. About $150,000 was committed to helping develop a site that will provide, among other things, handicapped-accessible fishing on the Trimbelle River.
But the bulk of the money sat untouched.
Now 20 years after implementing the park fee, the county still owns only one major park. The 752 acres of semi-wilderness surrounding Nugget Lake form a wonderful facility, but it's a safe bet most Pierce County residents have never visited the park, located in the Plum City area.
While finding affordable, available and desirable land for new parks has been a challenge, another obstacle is that the Park Development Fund can't be used to maintain and operate parks once they're acquired. As cash strapped as Pierce County is, that's no minor road block to new parks.
Awhile back the County Board changed Park Development Fund rules to give townships access to small amounts of the money. Still that has by no means depleted the fund.
Time is running out.
The state Legislature has changed the law, and counties are no longer able to assess this type of park fee. Although local officials say the law is by no means clear on this point, counties apparently have to use their park development funds within seven years or give the money back - a process too complicated to imagine.
County committees have wisely been reluctant to take ownership of new park projects and the financial obligations that go along with them.
But in the case of the Sea Wing Park, the town has agreed that it will never ask the county to take over maintenance of the park.
Sea Wing - a three-acre park with 640 foot of frontage on the Mississippi River - is in a good location to attract visitors from a significantly large area. With a beach, boat launch, playground, fishing piers and picnic area, it offers amenities to a variety of users.
An added bonus is that the county is in a position to assist a well planned local effort.
There are few examples in government in which everyone wins - this seems to be one of them.


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Support Services: Building the Shopping Cart for a New Generation1 Nov, 2008 By: Response Contributor Response
"Do you want fries with that — or how about a hot apple pie?"
"It's a great question, and come to think of it, I'm glad you asked. A hot apple pie might be great with my sandwich. I didn't order fries, but since you asked, sure, I'll have some."
Marketers — and especially direct response marketers — have used any number of devices to increase the revenue from each customer at every opportunity. A suggestion in the form of a question at the point-of-sale suggests an understanding of what a customer may want, based on the retailer's experience with thousands or even millions of customers.
Brian Wood
The retailer is aware that customers most likely want the fries or apple pie — they just need a reminder that it should be considered. We all know how hard it is to say no.
The Basic Electronic Shopping Cart
Online direct marketers have developed online shopping carts that let customers add to the cart without a prompt and may even suggest combinations of items to go with what is already in the cart. Applications that suggest items other customers bought that might complement the current item being purchased are effective upsell tools.
Marketers also have very efficiently added "specials," or one-time discounts, to encourage the addition of other items to the cart. The features of most shopping carts — such as the ability to process a credit card, calculate shipping fees and tax, generate a ticket for the distribution center, and so on — are now expected by customers. What were advanced cart features just a few months ago are now considered basic.
Going Beyond the Basic Shopping Cart
Advanced shopping cart capabilities that integrate a host of marketing capabilities right from the online point-of-sale will give marketers a clear advantage. These advanced technologies incorporate an array of functions to help marketers maximize selling opportunities in five major ways:
> Accepting checks. The ability to accept electronic checks opens up your offer to consumers who do not have (or prefer not to use) a credit card.
> Attracting the customer. With built-in search engine optimization (SEO) through the cart, marketers can generate optimized title tags and SEO meta tags for the entire site, helping to ensure pages rank high in Google and other major search engines. Additionally, with Google analytics, urchin tracking on every content page tells you who is visiting, how long they are staying, what is converting to sales, and how your ROI stacks up.
> Alerting the customer. Automated newsletters and E-mails cement loyalty and ensure return sales by dispatching alerts of new products, sale items, specials and other information of interest to opt-in customers. Likewise, customers are informed of such updates simply by subscribing to a company's RSS feed, or by providing a mobile phone number on which they can receive text messages.
> Optimizing your site. Advanced tools aid in the easy management of content throughout the site, from modifying text and images to adding pages, maintaining links, offering digital downloads or expanding for future capabilities. Additional applications manage affiliates, resellers, memberships and subscriptions. Built-in shipping modules integrate the cart with FedEx, UPS, USPS and other major carriers, linking directly to their sites to track shipping and delivery. A translation feature can also be a benefit.
> Recapturing lost opportunities. With automatic follow-up to shopping cart abandons, you can automatically contact shoppers who have provided an E-mail address, urging them to buy and, if you so choose, offering a percentage off the item they were viewing if they act immediately. Unique upsell/cross-sell capabilities are also possible, including using custom content, enhanced further with Flash or streaming video, to sell more products to buyers, with complete control of when and where your ads will run.
In setting up a new offer or site, look to new shopping cart capabilities to optimize the checkout experience to help customers not only complete the transaction but give you an upsell and re-sell advantage.
Brian Wood is division president of PowerPay Direct. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.powerpaydirect.bizfor more information.
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Mumbai, June 3 (ANI): Mumbai Police have arrested Pune-based bookie Kishore Lalchand Badlani alias Kesu Pune at Mumbai airport.
Badlani was reportedly in constant touch with D-gang members and bookies in Pakistan.
Earlier, two officials from the Kerala Cricket Association (KCA) were due to meet jailed cricketer S. Sreesanth in Delhi on Monday.
"The officials are Sreejith Nair is a criminal lawyer by profession and the Alappuzha district secretary of the KCA, and the other represents the district (Ernakulam) from which Sreesanth hails," KCA secretary T. C. Mathew.
Meanwhile, the court had also extended the police custody of Pune-based bookies Dinesh Sharma and Kishore Pablani till June 6. Prosecutor Sheikh said police wanted information from both of them about co-accused Badlani. (ANI)


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With 300 million Euro under management, Target Partners is one of the leading venture capital investors in Europe.
Target Partners invests in young technology companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Through our personal commitment, a global network and our deep experience as entrepreneurs, managers and venture capital investors, we support you in building a great company.
The partners of Target Partners have years of collective experience as successful managers, entrepreneurs and venture capital investors in Europe and the USA.
We founded or led companies ourselves, developed or sold technology products ourselves. We have seen numerous companies through to IPO and beyond. We understand the challenges an entrepreneur faces and that the road to success often isn't simple and straight.
Both in Europe and the USA Target Partners has a large network in industry and venture capital. We open doors for you to customers, business partners, experienced managers and financial markets. We support you in business development and in international expansion.
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Before we invest, we want to get well-acquainted with you and your company. After we invest, we support your company at key decision points and want to see it through to a big success.
How to Start: Simply send your business plan to start (at) targetpartners.de. We normally respond within one to two weeks. We treat such materials as strictly confidential. And remember: brevity is the soul of wit!
Getting to Know You (Due Diligence): Before we invest, we want to get to know your products, customers and competitors – but, most of all, to get to know you and your team. Both you and we should dedicate enough time for this phase.
Investment: Soon after you and we have made the decision to work together, it's time to create a contractual framework identifying the basis of our investment. Legal contracts establish clear rules for both sides.
Working Together: One of our partners is your principal contact at Target Partners. But the whole partnership is available to you: all of us have the same interest in your company's success. We meet regularly with you and are always available in critical times. Transparent, direct exchanges with one another makes for a dependable and predictable partnership.
The Exit: Typically, we invest in a company for a period of between three and seven years. We don't believe in short-term speculation or having to take hasty action at a difficult time. We want to sell our investment when your company is at its most successful point!
And then? Even after the sale of our stake in your company, we want to stay in touch. Perhaps you'll start another company! Or you may want to work with one of our portfolio firms.
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We look for energetic entrepreneurs with the ambition to build a strong growing company. A clear vision, tenacity, teamwork and leadership skills are prerequisite for success.
We invest predominantly in companies in German-speaking countries. As the world's strongest export region, the European technology champion and with a huge domestic market, this region provides an excellent base for building strong and fast growing companies.
We focus on markets that are ready for innovation, disruption, and those which will grow rapidly. This often means high-growth technology markets, such as mobile, software, green IT, e-commerce, and internet. These are sectors where our team has direct experience, extensive networks and has grown companies.
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Our typical initial investment is about EUR 1m – 3m and we normally invest about EUR 6m – 8m over the lifecycle of a company. Sometimes we do small seed investments too.
Investment stage
We typically invest in the early stages of our companies, and continue to support them throughout the various stages of their existence. We normally are the first institutional investor.
We are also open to investing in later stage rounds of financing for more mature businesses if we believe we can provide value and help them scale effectively.
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Cooktown is a town located at the mouth of the Endeavour River, on Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia, where James Cook beached his ship, the Endeavour, for repairs in 1770. It has a population of about 2,400. Both the town and Mount Cook (431 metres) which rises up behind the town were named after James Cook. It is the northernmost town on the east coast of Australia and was founded on 25 October 1873 as a supply port for the goldfields along the Palmer River. It was called 'Cook's Town' until 1 June 1874.
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The James Cook Statue was donated by BP Australia to the people of Cooktown. The bronze statue is the work of the Australian sculptor Stanley Hammond. A large granite rock on the foreshore bears a plaque with the inscription "This cairn marks the spot where Captain James Cook beached his barque HMS Endeavour in the year 1770". The statue is locted in Bicentennial Park, the pleasant but small park in Cooktown along the entrance of the Endeavour River.
Cooktown has a tropical climate with warm and humid conditions year round. From May to October is the dry time of year and the best time for a visit with temperatures usually between 25 °C and 28 °C and nights around 18 °C. From November to April it is hotter and more humid and heavy rain is possible. The wet season is also prone to hurricanes, though definately not every year. Temperatures during these months are mostly between 30 °C and 34 °C with nights around 24 °C.
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Skytrans Airlines offers regular flights to/from Cairns, from the Cooktown Airport (CTN).
You can reach Cooktown by car, taking the inland sealed road or the much rougher coastal Bloomfield Track. The latter one is only possible by 4wd vehicle and might be impassable during the wet season.
Buses travel between Cairns and several other towns and Cooktown, both along the coast (high clearance 4wd buses) or inland sealed road.
Internet cafés are very common in the larger Australian cities and popular tourist destinations. However, once you leave the major population centres, you might have trouble finding somewhere to log on. Free wifi is getting more and more common (either with or without a code) in places like restaurants, some bars and coffee places and hotels. Sometimes a fee is required.
See also: International Telephone Calls
Australia is on a GSM 900/1800 network, so if you have an unlocked phone that works on those frequencies, you will be able to buy a prepaid SIM-card and stick into your phone when you're in Australia. You will receive a new Australian phone number with the SIM-card.
To dial out of Australia use the prefix 0011, followed by the calling code of the country you are trying to reach, followed by the area code of the city/town (without the 0!) and finally the phone number.
Within Australia, it is necessary to add an area code to the phone numbers if you are calling from outside the area. Below are Australia's area codes:
000 is the emergency telephone number in Australia, but the international GSM mobile emergency telephone number 112 also works on mobile phones.
Australia Post is the government's postal service. Most suburbs will have at least one post office. Opening times are mostly from around 8:00 or 9:00am to 5:00pm though larger ones keep longer hours sometimes. A standard letter or postcard sent within Australia will cost $0.60. Internationally, it costs $1.70 to send postcards anywhere in the world. Letters cost $1.85 to send within the Asia Pacific region and $2.60 to anywhere else in the world.[1]. It is also possible to send things as parcels or by express mail. You can also use use private courier companies like TNT, UPS or DHL as they are competitive and reliable.
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Witness: Murphy asked neighbor to find gun before 3 murders
Kevin Murphy was looking for a way to end the discord among his mother, sister and his married girlfriend, so he looked to a neighbor for help, a witness testified Thursday.
Just days before Murphy's mother, sister and aunt were fatally shot in the Loyalhanna Township business he owned, he lamented about his domestic situation.
Charles Modrey told a Westmoreland County jury that Murphy wanted help to end the stress over his relationship with Susan McGuire.
"He talked about how his mother and sister didn't care for his relationship with Susan. They weren't very happy with his relationship, being she was married," Modrey testified.
"He asked if I knew anyone who could get rid of the problem," Modrey told jurors.
Just days later, Murphy's mother, 69-year-old Doris; his 43-year-old sister, Kris; and his 81-year-old aunt, Edith Tietge, were gunned down in the garage area of Ferguson Glass.
Kevin Murphy, 52, of Conemaugh Township in Indiana County, is on trial on three charges of first-degree murder in the April 23, 2009, deaths. District Attorney John Peck is seeking the death penalty.
Murphy killed his relatives after receiving an ultimatum from his soon-to-be divorced girlfriend so they could live together, according to prosecutors. McGuire is now living with another man in the home Murphy once shared with his mother and sister, according to testimony.
Modrey and another neighbor, John Scott Krivasy, testified about Murphy's actions in the days leading up to the murders.
Krivasy told jurors that several weeks before the killing, Murphy asked Krivasy to find a gun. Murphy gave no explanation about why he needed a weapon. "He was vague. He said he just wanted to get one," Krivasy testified.
Krivasy said he met with Murphy and McGuire three days after the shooting at Murphy's home. Krivasy said Murphy seemed upset and he said that his house was "wiretapped or bugged."
A Ferguson Glass employee, Donald Shondelmyer, who had been a friend of Murphy's since childhood, previously testified that he has taken over the operations of the business and has moved into the Murphy home with McGuire.
The defense has maintained that Murphy was not the shooter, although it has yet to identify another suspect.
The prosecution on Thursday laid out physical evidence that linked Murphy to the crime scene.
Murphy left one fingerprint on a gun manual found in a plastic container where the defendant claimed he stored a .22-caliber Magnum revolver. He told police he had used it on the day of the murders to shoot at a nesting robin in the woods behind his shop.
Police believe that gun was also used to kill at least two of the women.
Jeff Fumea, a DNA analyst for state police, testified that Murphy's genetic material was found on the gun.
But DNA from another unidentified person was also found on the gun, Fumea testified.
Defense attorney Robert Bell asked Fumea whether Murphy's DNA would be on the gun if he picked up the weapon, carried it outside and then returned it to its container.
"It depends," Fumea testified.
He said the DNA profile left behind on the weapon did not belong to any of the victims or Murphy's uncle, Roy Martin, who found the bodies.
The prosecution will continue presenting evidence Friday morning before Judge Al Bell.
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Champion trainer Darrren Weir's English-bred gelding Signoff leapfrogged over several rivals to gain a start in the $6.2 million Melbourne Cup with his comfortable victory in the Lexus Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.
Ridden by crack Brazilian jockey Joao Moreira, the five-year-old gelding has now shortened significantly in the market to be the third horse in the past 15 years to score in Saturday's Lexus and then take the Cup.
Brew, from Mike Moroney's Flemington yard, and Mark Kavanagh's Shocking trod the same route.
Well-known racing media identity Dean Lester, who is the racing manager for Signoff's senior part-owner, Gerry Ryan, took the initiative to book the Hong Kong-based Moreira, whom many regard as the best jockey in the world, earlier this week.
"I said to Gerry that the best jockey for this horse would be Moreira and after we talked on the phone he agreed to take the ride. I told Gerry that he is one jockey who can fly into a different country and still adapt having never seen the racecourse.
"He told Darren when he got off that he has a great passion for the Melbourne Cup and, while he will be half a kilo over, he will take the ride on Tuesday," Lester said.
Moreira had shown his class earlier in the day when he had won the $1 million Coolmare Stud Stakes for Chris Waller aboard Brazen Beau.
While Signoff grabbed the Saturday headlines, he will face stiff opposition with a record number of foreign raiders – 11 – lining up for a race that is now widely regarded as the top staying event in the world.
Bookmakers take a dim view of a local horse's prospects, with Japan's Caulfield Cup winner Admire Rakti heading the market, and German horse Protectionist also strongly fancied.
Still, there is a significant local challenge. Lloyd Williams, for whom winning the Melbourne Cup is an annual odyssey, has two runners, with perhaps Australia's best prospect, Fawkner, leading his assault. He also runs expensive import Sea Moon, although his 2012 winner Green Moon was withdrawn on Saturday morning.
OTI Racing, headed by Terry Henderson and former Test cricketer Simon O'Donnell, has four contenders – and it could have been five had it not been forced to scratch Lord Van Percy from the Lexus on Saturday morning.
Bart Cummings is synonymous with the Melbourne Cup, having won 12 previously; he now trains in partnership with his grandson, James, and the pair will be represented by the evergreen Precedence, who will be competing in his fourth Melbourne Cup.
English challenger Red Cadeaux, from Ed Dunlop's Newmarket stable, will also be running in his fourth Cup, having finished second at two previous attempts – last year, behind Fiorente, and in 2011, when he was beaten by a fraction by Dunaden.
Tuesday's field will be one of the oldest on record, with three nine-year-olds in Red Cadeaux, Precedence and Cavalryman, who will sport Godolphin's Royal Blue all that age. The latter is returning for a second tilt at the Cup.
Moreira will not be the only high-flying Hong Kong jockey bidding to take the prize back to Asia: Australian Zac Purton, successful on Admire Rakti in the Caulfield Cup, will be attempting to defy top weight and become the first horse to win the double since Ethereal. Italian Andrea Atzeni will be having his first ride on the English-trained mare My Ambivalent while Irish jockey-turned-trainer Johnny Murtagh, who rode in the race, is now saddling up two contenders, Royal Diamond and Mutual Regard.
Tony McEvoy's Big Memory, which won the Herbert Power and ran second to Signoff in the Lexus, is probably the only one of those who missed out to feel as though he could have had a place in the field.
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THE BREEZE LET US DOWN.: Carnival Breeze Cruise Review by SEASHELL67
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Destination: Eastern Caribbean
Embarkation: Miami
LOVED Guys burger joint! The burger and the workers there were AWESOME!
Loved the Blue Iguana where they make the BEST breakfast and lunch wraps.
The Rum Bar was So Yummy and fun workers.
The ship decor is very pretty and inviting.
The Piano Bar with Ron was the highlight of the ship! He is so personable, Hilarious and talented!
Had to visit the Infirmary. The DR was WONDERFUL!!!!
the Italian Restaurant has FREE lunch and it was good! They don't advertise it.
Bought the drink package. Was well worth it with both alcohol and non-alcohol drinks and they DO NOT water the drinks down. They are VERY More STRONG!!
We had the BEST room steward!! He was so sweet and always happy to chat with us.
Our door would not lock. Took 2 days of calls to get it fixed.
Our sink clogged 2 times.
The beds are so HARD!! We both had neck/back issues all week they were that bad! One night in a hotel and we were good as new!
Security was called to 2 rooms(one across and one next to us for MAJOR Disputes in the middle of the night) took them a half hour to get there!!
There is NO Adult Pool. ALL THREE are kid friendly! Seriously if they have the slides area and main pool why is the back pool NOT adults only??
Serenity is right above the kiddie area....hence the kid noise all day.
If you are not up by 6:30 a.m. you wont get a chair anywhere but on deck 5 where the extra chairs are.
We had a balcony. The noise from the hot tubs and restaurants/ bars was non stop!! Not to mention the smoke from the BBQ on sea days.
For the ENTIRE ship there is 2 towel stations. 1 by main pool with one person working and one in serenity.
Being on Deck 9 we had so much noise all night long from the buffet area above us.
Dinning room (BLUSH) was pretty and the singer great. The food was awful and the service was worse. You got offered bread and water ONCE!! We ordered wine and it would show up with dessert. We went 4 times in hopes of it getting better and never learned our servers names or even chatted with them. I was tables of 9-12 in rows or round tables and like a fast serve cafeteria.
The Lobby bar was no only so packed after 5 that you could not get a seat but also impossible to get a drink.
The Mezzanine was so packed every night that it was unbearable. It was horrible!!
VERY small casino that you had to walk thru to get to other end of ship.
The gym was half the size of the gyms I have been to on much smaller ships.
Stood in line for 35 min to get BBQ and finally left with out food.
VERY VERY few Bar servers walking around the pool/serenity areas during the day. Just got up and got our own drinks.
Spoke with so many up happy people on this ship and workers that talked about not liking the big ship and the people were more rude. The workers are over worked and if they are not happy no one is happy!
We are happy on most any cruise but Carnival has failed on this ship. It is 20% larger than the Freedom of the Seas RCCL and MORE people and less workers. This left us with a bad taste for carnival and wont be sailing with them anytime soon.
As for Ports...Tortola and Antigua were AMAZING!! WE have been to ST Thomas before and Nassau had 5 ships in port. It was as packed as the Breeze!
We like to have a fun and relaxing vacation and this was far from it. Do your own research but I would not recommend the Breeze to any one I know!
Carnival is trying to get more people onto the ships and it is causing the lack of enjoyment, service ect! Less
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Our door did not LOCK!! The beds are so hard! The pillows are hard! The rest of the room was good!
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Friday, September 15, 2006
Cast: Urmila Matondkar, Sanjay Suri, Juhi Chawla, Rehaan Engineer, Jimmy Shergill.
When after years abroad Nikhil (Suri) walks into the crowded place of pleasure his life changes. He meets the mercurial Anamika (Matondkar) who teases flirts and reduces Nikhil to a lifetime of slavery.
The passion underlining Nikhil's undying love for Anamika also purports to underline the theme's spectral content. But the swelling emotions don't always make it into the frames.
All the characters are in one way or another linked with one another. Even the men Nikhil and Rahul (Shergill) share complex, ambiguous relationships. In one notable moment of tormented confession Nikhil tears off his shirt in front of the paraplegic Rahul and confesses he was raped in jail.
But the crime for which Nikhil went to jail is deflected to another even darker character, the spouse-beating Steve (Rehaan Engineer) whose heartbreakingly fragile wife Ira (Chawla) wants to leave him but can only be liberated in death. ("Till Death Do Us Part"). Guilt runs through the criss-cross of wounded relationships in this film of unstated recriminations.
Upside: None of the five protagonists is a happy person. None of them finds solace comfort, let alone love, in his or her partner. They all seem to be driven more by desire per se than its fruition.
We often wonder what these characters would do if they actually found love! So driven are they by the search for love that they've forgotten where they're heading.
Sachin Krishn's camera captures the conflicts of the characters in striking silhouettes and dark contours. The hints and whispers created through the lens goes a long way in detailing the inner world of the pain-lashed characters.
All five actors penetrate the heart of their characters. Urmila has never looked more tranquil in her torment, and Juhi uses her ability to portray hurt and guilt with minimum effort. Among the male actor Sanjay Suri's eyes follow the course of his character's destiny with pained transparency.
Flipside: The swelling of a Shakespearean passion for Anamika in Nikhil's soul needed to be mapped more meticulously. Tragically the narrative is as restless as the characters. You suspect the tranquility around this battered character comes more from the actress than the editor (Irene Dhar Malik) who cuts across these disembodied lives with ruthless celerity.
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Fremont, Calif.-based Purfresh Inc. on May 10 released a study it commissioned that shows how its ozone-based Purfresh Transport active cargo protection system can use ozone to control ripening and lower decay through its killing of harmful bacteria commonly found in refrigerated shipping containers.
The study, conducted by the National Food Lab, demonstrated how introduction of ozone into container conditions killed and controlled the spread of salmonella, listeria monocytogenes and E. coli O157:H7 by up to 99.9% each.
The results were obtained on actual fruit and container surface coupons, according to a news release.
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"Given the continued expansion of the global food market and the ever-increasing reports of food-related illnesses, it is exciting and encouraging to see innovative companies like Purfresh applying sound science and commercially viable solutions to this important industry challenge," Paul Hall, president of AIV Microbiology and Food Safety Consultants LLC, said in the release.
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Around 200 quilted squares are currently on show in the garden at Caffle Brewery, Llawhaden after being crafted and donated by well-wishers from throughout Pembrokeshire, Wales and England. They can be viewed today (Thursday June 19), Friday and Saturday at the Quilts on my Patch event, where admission of £5 will be donated to the charity.
Afterwards, the squares will be made into quilts for children in hospital via Project Linus.
Pat Bannister of The Rhos - who is a keen quilter herself - is the inspiration behind her family's fundraising, after making a good recovery from surgery and treatment for cancer last year.
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She and brother Tom, aged 22, cycled the 17.5 miles from Llawhaden to Lawrenny and then rowed the nine miles from Lawrenny to Haverfordwest.
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White Nokia Lumia 900 goes up for pre-order
A white Nokia Lumia 900 model may have not been announced officially yet, but pre-ordering one online now appears to be possible. Online retailer Negri Electronics is accepting pre-orders for a white Nokia Lumia 900 – unlocked and with no carrier commitment necessary. Its price? Exactly $649.50 of your hard earned dollars.
The first and last time when we had clues hinting that the Nokia Lumia 900 in white is real was when Nokia itself posted a render of the device on its Facebook page, presumably by accident. What was supposed to be shown off was the white Nokia Lumia 800, which the company made official that day.
source: Negri Electronics via wpcentral
UPDATE: We have a confirmation, folks! The white Nokia Lumia 900 is real indeed. Has anyone ordered theirs already?
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1. TheLibertine (Posts: 484; Member since: 15 Jan 2012)
Looking great, but it is pretty much expensive... Cyan version looks good too, so consider it.
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2. solidsnakeduds013 (Posts: 219; Member since: 20 Oct 2010)
I really like the cyan version
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3. iixacexii (unregistered)
chill richie white and black are the best looking ones
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4. 7thspaceman (Posts: 1584; Member since: 14 Feb 2011)
Hmm I wonder if the Nokia 900 will cost less to buy when the more powerful Nokia Windows 8 smart phones comes out.
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5. adrinat (Posts: 1; Member since: 21 Feb 2012)
Probably next week after MWC Barcelona I'll pre-order one of this unit... Unfortunately at the moment Negri Electronics are unable to confirm WHEN this unit will be available...so if you have any news or rumors let us know...
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At the Foxtel Upfronts, Director of Television Brian Walsh was very excited by a major concert of Beatles music next February.
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Versatile Pompom & Earflap Beanie by Jocelyn Sass
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The nut of the official tree of Ohio—doesn't sound like the first thought for a collegiate mascot, and for Ohio State it wasn't.
That was the vetoed buck deer. But students Ray Bourhis and Sally Huber came back to OSU's athletic council and suggested the buckeye. Within months, a paper-mâché Brutus debuted at Ohio State's 1965 Homecoming Game and won over the stadium. While the paper-mâché original form quickly became fiberglass, the much beloved Brutus forever stayed. Pay homage to the original Brutus with this super-soft throwback. Go Bucks!


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Felix plays in 1854 and likes the New York Knickerbockers. Louis is a soldier during the Civil War and plays ball between battles. Arnold is a fan in 1894 and gets to meet his favorite player. Walter is a batboy for the Brooklyn Superbas in 1908. Frankie does a little betting on the game in 1926. Kat, a girl, plays for the Grand Rapids Chicks in 1945. Jimmy can't believe it when he finds out the Dodgers are leaving Brooklyn in 1957. Michael just might pitch a perfect game in 1981. Snider turns baseball memorabelia into dollars on e-bay in 2002. Nine innings in a baseball game, nine kids in this story told in nine chapters…one chapter for each kid. The nine kids have baseball in common and something else, something really important…but you'll have to get to the last chapter to find out what it is. TIP: Pay attention to the bat and the ball. Each chapter is a story itself but the way the author ties it all together at the end is really cool! Author: Allan Gatz Look
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?Remarkable . . . With this book [Wolitzer] has surpassed herself.?The New York Times Book Review
"A victory . . . The Interestings secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation. . . . She's every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. This isn't women's fiction. It's everyone's."?Entertainment Weekly (A)
From New York Times?bestselling author Meg Wolitzer comes a new novel that has been called "genius" (The Chicago Tribune), ?wonderful (Vanity Fair), "ambitious" (San Francisco Chronicle), and a ?page-turner (Cosmopolitan), which The New York Times Book Review says is "among the ranks of books like Jonathan Franzens Freedom and Jeffrey Eugenides The Marriage Plot."
The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge.
The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty; not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. Her friend Jonah, a gifted musician, stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. But Ethan and Ash, Juless now-married best friends, become shockingly successful?true to their initial artistic dreams, with the wealth and access that allow those dreams to keep expanding. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their talents have become and the shapes their lives have taken.
Wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City, The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life.
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Metrotube YouTube player coming to a Windows 8 PC near you
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Windows Phone is still lacking an official YouTube application, but thankfully there's Metrotube to fill the void. Due to being a rare example of a YouTube player in the Windows Phone app store, the application has become quite popular, which has allowed the developer, named Lazyworm Applications, to think about expanding its business...
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1. eisenbricher (Posts: 973; Member since: 09 Aug 2012)
Wow! Using this beautiful app on Lumia Win8 (not RT) tablt would feel futuristic!!
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I am a fan of the app on my L920... having it on a my pc would be pretty sweet!
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Tennis Set by Patons UK
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Tennis Set
This" Tennis Set" includes a matching sweater. I have not included the information here. Vest calls for 50 gram ball of Patons "Baby Yarn"
18" size, 1 main color, 1 contrast color.
20 (22)", 2 main color, 1 contrast color
Finished chest measurements 19 (21 1/4, 23)"
Vest has a "V" neck with cable down the middle of the front.
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This Evening Patchy light snow and flurries.
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Tomorrow: Snow developing by afternoon. Accumulations around 1-2". High: 26
Tuesday Mostly Cloudy, a few snow showers late. High: 28
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Areas of light snow and flurries will linger into the evening hours before tapering off overnight. A light coating of snow will be possible. Overnight lows will drop into the lower to middle teens and some icy spots are possible due to refreezing.
Another "Alberta Clipper" will move across the state on Monday spreading more light snow into central Ohio by midday. The snow will continue into the evening hours. Snowfall accumulations of around 1 to 2 inches will be likely with higher amounts possible north and east of Columbus. Temperatures will hold in the middle 20's on Monday.
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Invitation Only and is out of Sophistichip. His dam is by
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Sophistication Only is negative on the AQHA 5 panel test for
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Sophistication Only, affectionately known as "Sie",
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conformation awarded him a Reserve Congress Champion in the
Lim. Amateur Performance Stallions (he was the highest
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cards). The same year at the Congress he took his owner
Laura Bracken, who was five months pregnant with their
daughter Kenzie, to the finals in the Amateur Western
pleasure with over 100 entries.
Sie has a super laid back disposition and personality
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movement, her mind is phenomenal- she's one of my most solid
trail horses, and I've put total rank beginners on her for
trail rides, because she's just that reliably quiet. At the
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in the mind is incredibly striking...if Sie puts this mind
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Another mare owner sent me a letter about her 2 year old
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Absolutely a great minded young horse. Nothing phases him.
My daughter had her two year old son run out in front of him
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How can I sell? I have decided she gets to keep him...."
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AVATAR 2 is seemingly headed for a Christmas 2015 or 2016 release date according to Jon Landau (producer) who was quoted by Bleeding Cool at a preview screening of some scenes of TITANIC 3D. That would make AVATAR 3 a year later. This is all subjective of course as we just started a new year and Landau may have confused dates a bit, but I doubt that.
The news is sad yet not totally unexpected as my sources have also alluded to: Not a lot of action is happening right now in the project other than the fact that James Cameron and Jon Landau are hard at work trying to create their vision. You can't measure creativity (and that includes the AVATAR novel that Cameron has been penning as well) let alone predict it, but when pre-production actually commences my sources will have something to talk about. Sure you will have Lightstorm Entertainment jockey for stage locations, talk to top talent etc, but this is all common to any major production.
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Little Boy Blue by Michele Maks
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Little Boy Blue
Skill Level: Intermediate
• Red Heart Baby Econo medium (worsted) weight yarn (pompadour: 6 oz/460 yds/170g per skein):
2 skeins each #0802 baby blue and #1680 pastel green
1 skein #1001 white
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OverviewThe sinuses are hollow cavities within the facial bones. Sinuses are not fully developed until after age 12. When people speak of sinus infections, they are most frequently referring to the maxillary and ethmoid sinuses.
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There are two problems we see a lot in looking at Urban Fantasy from a social justice mindset. One is the defenders of books and series rushing in to decry any criticism of their precious – and I can understand that. We fanpoodle in Kevin Hearne's name after all. But when fanpoodles deny that there are problematic and prejudiced elements in their favourite works, they diminish and demean the damage these portrayals can cause and internalise them without thinking
The second is the repeated acceptance of token characters – even high problematic token characters – as being proof of inclusivity. Just having a POC/GBLT/Disabled/Female character is proof that the book/programme is inclusive and wonderful. Would that it were true, but as we've discussed before sometimes erasure is better than some inclusion.
Which brings us to Cassandra Clare's novels that are repeatedly hailed for their gay inclusion and any questioning of the portrayals has been vehemently opposed. And as we did with similar sentiments expressed about Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, we have to speak on this. Because this inclusion? This is not all good.
Alec exists to serve the straight people around him. Despite being older, he has far less kills than Issy or Jace (and Clary mocks him about this about him being weaker) and it is said this is because he exists to protect them. There are at least 2 occasions in the books where he severely risks his own life to protect Jace. Alec being gay is used as a reason for him to fawn after Jace, jealous and desperate – it's an old trope and it's a dull one that needs to end.
If Magnus were portrayed as any more flamboyant he'd wear rainbows and shoot unicorns. Alec, similarly, is portrayed as self-effacing, whiny and weak – especially compared to Jace and Issy. Though we are told repeatedly that Magnus is an extremely powerful being when the straight people call (Read: Jace and Clary) he is quick to not only respond to their requests, but comply. Like Alec, he exists to serve the straight people even though he normally charges a considerable amount for his services. The only time he is portrayed as dominant is when he is juxtaposed to Alec, thus making him the top and Alec the bottom.
Alec & Magnus' relationship has much of the "weak child/male parent" dynamic that is so common in slash circles (trying to clumsily impose clumsy gender dynamics or grossly offensive yaoi style "ukes" and "semes" into gay male relationships). Especially in the last book, Alec is whiny, childish, pettish and inclined to sulks and tantrums while Magnus chides him like a sulky child.


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News Wrap: Syrian Students Demonstrate, Organize Friday Rallies
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HARI SREENIVASAN: Wall Street had its best day in a month just two days after a warning about U.S. debt caused a sell-off. Today, stocks shot higher on strong earnings by Intel and others. The Dow Jones industrial average gained more than 186 points to close at 12,453, its best finish in nearly three years. The Nasdaq rose 57 points to close at 2,802.
And the price of oil surged back above $111 a barrel. It's up 20 percent since the start of the year.
Thousands of students in Syria demonstrated today against the government and organizers planned huge rallies for Friday. More than 4,000 students gathered in Daraa and surrounding areas. There were also protests at Aleppo University in the north. The government of President Bashar Assad has cracked down on protesters with more than 200 killed in recent weeks. Yesterday, Assad ended nearly 50 years of emergency rule, but also warned against more protests.
In Yemen, gunmen on motorcycles sprayed bullets at hundreds of anti-government protesters in a Red Sea port city. At least one person was killed and several others were wounded. Meanwhile, thousands of people also demonstrated in Sanaa, the capital. They chanted slogans demanding again that President Ali Abdullah Saleh step down. Later Saleh assured his supporters he won't be ousted by what he called conspiracies or coups.
A new terror alert system was unveiled today in Washington. It replaces the old five-step color-coded alerts with two threat levels: elevated and imminent. The National Terrorism Advisory System, or NTAS, will provide details on terror threats and recommend steps the public can take.
The secretary of homeland security, Janet Napolitano, spoke today in New York.
HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY JANET NAPOLITANO: We want people to — to live in a state of alertness and awareness. And we want people to know how they can help themselves, how they can assist their community.
So — and one way to do that is to provide people with more information and more ways to access information. That's what the NTAS is designed to help do.
HARI SREENIVASAN: Officials say they will begin posting the alerts on Facebook and Twitter starting next week.
There was word today that millions of dollars in donated malaria drugs have been stolen in recent years. The Associated Press reported the medicine was taken from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The report cited internal documents from the group. They said drugs have disappeared in 13 countries, mostly in Africa.
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What a great vid! It would be awesome to be blown by a random chic in a public place. That made me horny. Wish I was that lucky. Who cares if someone is watching... Come and learn how to do it properly. The girl in this one has nice tits and I have a massive hard on. Blow me... anybody?
Hahaha was so fun the laugh of man at 10:00!
That's the way to go! lol Rock'on!
I need some of this in my life too!!
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