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Test Ride: 2014 Salsa Beargrease Carbon Fatbike
Nimble and certainly all-terrain, the lightweight ride featuring SRAM's XX1 drivetrain
What was once thought to be a novelty by some in the bike community, innovations in both technology and design (not to mention trail infrastructure) suggest that the fat bike is here to stay. Built off the basics of mountain bike frame geometry, a fat bike's difference is in the wheel and tire width. Fat bikes generally have tires in the three to four inch wide category—that's about four times wider than a standard road bike tire. This allows the bikes to roll through terrain that's considered unrideable like sand and snow—in turn opening up a world of adventure possibilities for touring. Now the design language has come full circle, with performance fat bikes hitting the market that are built for speed and tight handling as well as topping rough terrain. A shining example is the Beargrease from Minnesota-based Salsa Cycles kitted out with SRAM's XX1 drivetrain—where one front chainring makes a world of difference in the saddle.
When hitting the trail on the Beargrease, it's easy to forget you're on a fat bike at all. With a more aggressive, racing-style geometry and frame that weighs in at just over three pounds, the bike rides more like a zippy rally car than a tank. The bike handles banked berms like a dirt jumper and carries surprisingly well through the flats, but it's when the trail gets bumpy that the Beargrease really shines.
Rocks that would normally throw you off the trail are mere speed-bumps. Even intermediate riders can navigate boulder fields and build confidence barreling down single track trails with speed knowing it'll take a serious obstacle to throw them off their balance. Meanwhile, more advanced riders can still navigate technical balance features while sending airs without a care—even landing in the flats proves to be smooth. While sand and snow weren't on offer during our ride, it's clear this is the bike to ride through anything and everything with speed and ease.
A key component to any bike by definition is the drivetrain. Responsible for distributing power throughout the bike, the drivetrain is especially important for mountain biking, where quick, efficient shifting is the difference between making the next incline or going wheels up. With SRAM's XX1 system, it's easy to forget about the drivetrain altogether. With just one front chainring, the system aims for simplicity. The result is a quieter ride, less maintenance and ultimately a more intuitive cycling experience. With only one cycle of gears to run through, you can focus more on the trail and less on your bike.
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Edinburgh, Scotland -- Wolfson Microelectronics Ltd. here today disclosed a partnership with Texas Instruments Inc. to create new chip solutions for current and future digital audio applications, such as those using MP3, Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media Audio (WMA), and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) formats.
Wolfson -- a five-year-old fabless chip company specializing in advanced analog and data converter ICs -- said it will develop a family of "Media Deliver Devices" as part of its collaboration with Dallas-based TI.
The first product in Wolfson's new family of devices will be a complete solution for portable audio Internet appliances, which will be fully compliant with the Secure Data Management Interface (SDMI) for copyright protection, said the Edinburgh company. The first Internet audio devices will be available in June 2000. Additional product announcements are expected later this year.


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Adel Kolahkaj should warn soccer players everywhere to be very careful when picking up things fans throw on the field … they might just explode.
Kolahkaj nearly learned this the hard way, when he leaned down, grabbed an object and tossed it from the field — only for it to explode seconds later.
The flashpoint came during Wednesday's Asian Champions League quarterfinal game between Iran's Sepahan F.C. and Saudi Arabia's Al Ahli. The game was played in Isfahan, Iran, at Foolad Shahr Stadium.
Al Ahli was awarded a corner kick at some point in the game, and protesting fans began throwning things at one of the referee's assitants. The referee halted play, and a few players tried to help remove debris from the field.
Kolahkaj, a Sepahan midfielder, grabbed what certainly didn't look like a live munition and tossed it to the side. The explosion that followed sent players and officials scurrying away. Judging by the size of the explosion, it's clear that Kolahkaj would have been maimed (or maybe worse) had he held onto the object any longer.
The game resumed shortly afterward and ended in a scoreless draw. The two teams will play the second leg of the quartefinal on Oct. 2 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Let's hope security on the Arabian penninsula is a little more thorough than it was in Iran.
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Have a question for Marcus Kwesi O'Mard? Send it to him via Twitter at @NESNsoccer, NESN Soccer's Facebook page or send it here. He will pick a few questions to answer every week for his mailbag.
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Do you want some real straight talk about food safety issues in animal agriculture from someone who has been at one of the highest levels in ag policy for our government?
Then check out the new blog Food Safety and Animal Health, from Scott Hurd, DVM, PhD, from Iowa State University's College of Veterinary Medicine.
You can find Hurd's blog here.
Hurd has been at the forefront as an expert on food safety topics such as antimicrobial use and resistance, among others. After serving until 2009 as the deputy and acting undersecretary for food safety of the USDA, where he was the country's highest ranking food safety veterinarian and policy advisor to the Secretary of Agriculture, Hurd's ability to spin down scientific and regulatory issues into understandable language is commendable.
A favorite source of information for Bovine Veterinarian on many topics, I asked Hurd about his new blog and why he decided to start it. "It seems every week a reporter is asking me about some food safety issue," Hurd says. "The interviews never allow me to say my whole story. So this helps me to form my opinions and say what they may have missed."
Hurd intends to write about "Anything that relates to the nexus of animals and food safety. There seem to be an endless stream of negative stories and misinformation. I had decided to do it before 'pink slime', but that pushed me over the edge!"
A sample paragraph from Hurd's April 19th blog, titled, "Do the science of food safety: booorrring!" tells it like it is and ended with: I strongly suggest that we listen to the flock of scientists employed by FSIS, FDA, universities, and the food industry; boring as it may be. We pay them! They have no desire to make anyone sick, nor incite unnecessary controversy. They don't get extra funding to scare people. They desire to find answers, fix problems, and make a positive difference.
Hurd says his blog is intended for anyone who will listen, but mostly reporters. He believes his food safety peers "Will appreciate someone sticking their neck out" on complex and controversial topics, and says so far, his peers have given him positive feedback.
Visit Hurd's blogspot and see what he has to say about some of our most important food-safety issues today – no holds barred.


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Yokohama is a city steeped in its own distinct history, despite its proximity to the capital. The key difference between Yokohama and Tokyo historically, is the port, which was opened on June 2, 1859.
This weekend, The Yokohama Centraltown Festival celebrates the city 152 years after the opening of its port. It will run till June 5 and will offer a massive variety of performances sprawling across five zones, from Bashamichi Station to the Motomachi shopping district.
Highlights of the main-stage area, which is in the Yamashita Park zone, include the popular Hamakoi Dance, which will feature 45 groups. There will also be concerts taking place June 4 and 5. Near the main stage, visitors will be able to get a taste of the Tohoku region at the food corner. A portion of those revenues will go to the disaster-stricken northeast.
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Its a great phone with lots of features such as 3G, a 1,3 megapixel camera and many more things! But the 1,3 megapixel is not wery good, but video recording quality is pretty good. You can make videocalls even if there is no front facing camera, which is pretty good.
NOTE: One bad rhing about the phone is that when the battery life is almos none you cannot play music with your music player, or thake phontos with your camera!!Build quality 10/10Reception 9/10Call quality 9/10Internet 10/10Multimedia 9/10Camera 8/10UI speed 9/10Everyday usage 10/10Text input 10/10Display 9/10Battery 9/10
- Wery good built quality
- Cheap 3G phone
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- Does not have WIFI
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Cherish my Samsung Wave, Omnia2 and Pixon12 well. After spending lots of fortune on this few phone. You will definetly want to keep them safe and collect them if you have no financial needs. So before i go oversea for a long period of 4 month i decided to purchase ths S3370 so i can keep my other precious phone at Home safely!After using this phone for a week, i love this phone too.Cute design, can be used anywhere. And it's 3.0G make its internet surfing acceptable!It's battery life is actually good as it last quite long!The only problem is it do not have a 3.5mm Audio Jack and its camera lacks AutoFocus.But i can actually take photo anywhere bright and instantly upload it to my Facebook very quickly!Impressed using this phone, did not regret getting it!Design 10/10Features 10/10Performance 10/10
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Good Phone
I was using Nokia phone and i'm always love to have only nokia. But this time i think to take a change of using Samsung phone looking at it's display quality and ofcourse price and feature.
I brought this phone on 18 july 2010.
box contain headset you can use your any 3.5mm headset, charger, xylus stick (which is of no use, i hardly use it and difficult to keep with the phone as there is no inbult space ko keep with phone), good quality pouch, memory card 2 GB.
I'm happy with the phone feature but missing some feature as listed below:
1. No zoom option in camera if you set it for 1.3 mega pixel
2. third party application is not avaiable and difficult to install touch game.
3. some times if i restart my phone then it change the default memory to phone instead of previous setting to for memory card.
4 Using internet many times i got error message the phone memory is full and it close the browser.
5 video player is not good and does not play 240x320 size video songs.
6 find difficult to sync with windows media player
over all good phone compare to price and feature avaiable.Design 8/10Features 7/10Performance 8/10
- 1. cheap phone with 3G.
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BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) — An allegedly thoughtless drunk woman disabled the court-ordered "interlock" device on her car so she could drive the vehicle while police say she was drunk.
39-year-old Ledeone White of Cutler Terrace in Stuart had the device installed while on probation for DUI. Boca police say she had her son blow into the device to trick it into letting her start the vehicle.
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White was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail and later released on her own recognizance. It is unclear at this time whether the probation violation, and subsequent arrest for DUI, will result in prison. She refused to provide a blood alcohol sample for police which — in layman's terms — is a big "no no" while you're on probation for DUI.
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Interactive Whiteboards
What Are They?
An interactive whiteboard is a big interactive display which needs to hook up to both a projector and a computer to work. The projector projects the contents of the computer screen onto a board (the display's surface) and the user can register mouse clicks on the screen by simply touching the board with a finger or pointer.
Interactive whiteboards are used in a variety of settings. They are popular as a learning aid in the classroom, a presentation tool in the boardroom and a collaborative tool in workgroups, sports coaching and broadcasting studios.
Interactive Whiteboards for Essex Schools
Interactive whiteboards in schools are the tool of tomorrow's classroom, if the figures are to be believed: by 2007, they were in 98% of secondary and 100% of primary schools (source: BCHT Schools Survey 2007), and according to analysts Futuresource Consulting, it is estimated that by 2011 one in every seven classrooms in the world will be using them.
Interactive whiteboards can be used to operate any software on the PC which is connected to it – including internet surfing – just as if one were using a regular mouse or touchpad. Not only this, but some whiteboards can be configured to recognise handwriting, allowing the user to almost literally write on the screen.
How Interactive Whiteboards Work
The display (the interactive whiteboard or "IWB" itself) is connected to the computer through a normal connector like a USB cable or a wireless dongle. A driver will normally come with the device, which causes the computer to treat the IWB as an input device – the same as a mouse, touchpad or tablet.
Once the driver is in place, the interactive whiteboard becomes active and the user can calibrate the system – i.e. fine-tune the display so that the pointer is perfectly synched with the user's touch.
Users who need to add text can either call up an onscreen keyboard, or possibly use a handwriting recognition program of the type mentioned earlier.
As well as being able to use the computer as one normally would, most interactive whiteboards also come with special software which allows the user to maximise their experience; for example, apps which emulate flipcharts, rulers and other stationary and teaching tools.
The ways in which the actual touch detection on the interactive whiteboard works will vary from display to display. Some have a membrane which can detect the touch of skin, some work with electromagnets or by using ultrasound – one model has even been adapted to work using a Nintendo Wii-mote!
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Slow and Steady Wins the Project Management Race!
LOS GATOS, CA Feb 16th, 2016 - Hurry, hurry, hurry. Faster, faster. We live in a "done now", "real time" world of instant gratification. People want immediate feedback, instant updates and decisions made yesterday.
This is equally true for certain aspects of the projects we manage and the teams and customers we manage and interact with. However, jumping on the first issue that comes along and responding in emergency mode - while it maybe our first knee-jerk reaction and what the customer or even our senior management is yelling at us to do - it may not be in the project's or the customer's best interest. Why? Because after thinking a process through, there is nearly always a better way than your first reactive plan. Elements of that first reaction may be great, but it is likely that the response needs some further analysis and formation to get it as effective and productive as possible. To make it a real solution rather a quick fix or bandaid.
Slower approach
I know you want to act fast – react fast. We do that all the time with our clients. Whether it's a consulting client, a project customer or a customer with a need of complaint or suggesting in whatever industry we might be in. Fast reaction makes it look like you're on it. But there is a lot to be said for "counting to ten" first and give the issue, communication, complaint or process time to sink in. As I said, you'll nearly always have a better response in hand if you take some time to react. For me, it's a three step process...
Review the landscape and get the details.
First, gather the details. This is likely the first you've heard about the situation or been alerted about it. You need time and details to get up to speed and to begin to formulate a response. What is the cause or supposed cause? Who is your best source of info or who is the witness? How reliable is the data? How quickly does a response or action need to happen? By reviewing the landscape and getting all the details possible, you can put yourself in a better position to begin planning a response.
Ideas, ideas, ideas.
Next, take this info and meet with your project team members. They are the skilled resources that you must rely on here. Use them. Don't try to go this alone. Brainstorm with them concerning the details you – and possibly you and the team members – have gathered up to this point and then work to formulate anywhere from one to three viable responses to the issue or issues at hand.
Present the response.
Finally, present the response. I watch Criminal Minds a lot. A lot as in every episode. And the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) gathers as much info about the "unsub" (Unknown SUBject), and then they brainstorm as a group before presenting a profile to the media, local law enforcement and the public. That's the process you've followed up to this point and now you're taking your "profile" or proposed best responses to your media and law enforcement...in this case it's your customer or whoever needs the action or response...in order to fix whatever is ailing the project or causing the issues or concerns.
I'd like to say that I always practice this but I don't. I'm as guilty or more so of reacting too quickly to situations sometimes – even to the point of responding to a concerning email before I've finished reading it fully. Regret. One word you really don't want to have to conceptualize. That's what I'm after here – planning a real response that is productive, thoughtful, calming, confident and workable. And the right one.


text: JOHANNESBURG - Only a tiny percentage of Gautengers pay their traffic fines up front, according to reports. The annual report of the Road Traffic Infringement Agency (RTIA) revealed that drivers on the national contraventions register owe R1.6-billion in outstanding traffic penalties issued in the Tshwane and Johannesburg metros, City Press reported.ONLY NINE PERCENTRTIA said drivers in Tshwane and Johannesburg racked up R980-million in penalties between April 2011 and March 2012 but have paid only R86-million (nine percent) of that total.Tshwane and Johannesburg were the only metro municipalities which participated in the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) pilot phase.Aarto makes provision for a contravention register that captures outstanding traffic penalties countrywide. Aarto will also prevent drivers with outstanding traffic fines from renewing their vehicle and driving licences*.Transport minister Ben Martins is expected to announce the introduction of the Aarto Act in early 2013. RTIA was set up to implement the act.Of the 1.8-million fines issued in Johannesburg and Tshwane in the past financial year, only 251 125 (14%) were paid.*Wheels24 asks: ''Is that smart?" People, being generally non-law abiding in South Africa, will simply carry on driving. Should they then be in a collision, unlicensed, they will also be uninsured for both their vehicle and injuries and, worse, those of other road users involved in the crash.


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How Good are the Growth and Inflation Forecasts for Slovenia?
This paper examines the quality of the macroeconomic forecasts of six institutions that regularly publish forecasts for Slovenia. The analysis focuses on an evaluation of the quality of forecasts for the real and nominal growth of GDP and for the average annual inflation rate for the period from 1997 to 2009. The quality of forecasts for selected macroeconomic variables was evaluated based on five groups of criteria: statistical measures of accuracy, comparison with the results of naive models, trace test, sign test and statistical tests of the unbiasedness and efficiency of forecasts. The results of the analysis do not provide an "absolute winner", but they do indicate the features of particular forecasts. It is also clear that the developers of models have until now most likely given priority to reducing forecasting errors, while neglecting the congruence in the direction of trend between the forecast and the actual result. The latter criterion in particular is very important for effective economic policy making.
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The first decade of the 21st century is ending. Like it or not, you're not getting any younger.
Here are six retirement planning steps to take before 2011. No procrastinating!
1. Get the full 401(k) match from your employer. Before you get that last paycheck of the year, call HR and tell them to move enough savings into your account that your employer kicks in the maximum match. At many companies, that's 50 cents per $1 saved, up to 6 percent of pay. In other words, if you earn $50,000 and contribute 6 percent, or $3,000, the boss will kick in another $1,500. Using Bankrate's 401(k) calculator, for the sake of simplicity, let's say you save 6 percent per year from the time you're 30 until you turn 65. No raises, no layoffs and a modest 5 percent interest rate. With the employer match, you would have saved $433,915. Without the employer match, you'd only have $294,793 -- about $139,000 less. Nothing to sneeze at.
2. Up the amount you're saving by 1 percent. Unless you're remarkably more dedicated to retirement savings than most of us are, you could stand to put away a little more. Even in a tough year, you can afford to add a few more dollars to the retirement kitty. So hurry down to HR and make the switch, effective the first paycheck in January 2011.
3. Update your beneficiaries. When you set up a retirement savings plan, you were asked to designate who would get the money if you die. These designations override what you put in a will. Heaven forbid that all your hard-earned money will go to your ex-husband.
4. Review your estimated benefits from Social Security. Everybody gets a sheet with this information on it in the mail a few months before their birthday. If you threw yours away, you can get another copy from the Social Security website. You also might find it useful to read up on the fine points of the program. Choosing when to take benefits is a worthy retirement-strategy game, and you have to know the rules in order to win.
5. Check up on your past employers. Are you entitled to a small pensions from a previous employer? Did you leave behind a forgotten 401(k)? Making a call to the union, your former employer's HR department or checking out the search engine on the Pension Benefit Guarantee Fund could prove to be very profitable.
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GWEN IFILL: They voted in New Hampshire today in the first primary of this presidential election year. By all accounts, the Granite State was Mitt Romney's to lose, with the rest of the Republican field trying to hold down his margin of victory.
At the very moment New Hampshire primary day finally arrived, the tiny hamlet of Dixville Notch cast its tradition first votes at midnight — the outcome: a tie between former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, at two votes apiece.
MAN: I'm very happy with the results, very close — very close election.
GWEN IFILL: Hours later, as voters came out in earnest, the question was, how close would this one really be?
CROWD: We want Mitt! We want Mitt!
GWEN IFILL: The scene around Romney, who has led by wide margins in every pre-election poll, was chaotic this morning…
MITT ROMNEY (R): Hi, guys. Very exciting.
GWEN IFILL: … with plenty of supporters were on hand to greet him outside a Manchester school, one of the state's largest polling places.
Huntsman, whose standing has steadily risen during the last week, hoped to duplicate the Dixville Notch results elsewhere in the state and perhaps surge into second place. He skipped Iowa to focus on New Hampshire.
JON HUNTSMAN (R): I feel good because we have done everything humanly possible over the last many months. Now you let it sit with the voters of this state, who I know are all informed, and they're going to turn out and make a decision that they feel strongly about.
GWEN IFILL: Romney's other rivals also worked to chip away at his lead as they fought through the Election Day media crush. But none of them went as far as to predict an upset.
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich actually conceded a Romney victory last night.
NEWT GINGRICH (R): I'm probably going to predict Mitt will be first, but maybe a very, very weak first.
GWEN IFILL: Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who placed third in Iowa, worked to hold on to his solid second-place poll standing here to come in as New Hampshire runner-up.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum finished in a virtual tie with Romney in Iowa and has spent more time in New Hampshire than any candidate other than Romney and Huntsman. He said today the focus should be on who is in the best position to defeat President Obama.
RICK SANTORUM (R): Vote for the candidate who has the best chance of matching up against Barack Obama, winning this election with broad, bold contrasts. We need to make Barack Obama the issue in this campaign.
GWEN IFILL: The president is also on the ballot today, but unchallenged by any major Democrat. When his supporters took their turn behind the polling booth curtains in Dixville Notch, he, naturally, won.
BOY: I'd like to show you my shirt.
GOV. RICK PERRY, R-Texas: I like that. I'm glad you're not 21 — or actually 35 yet.
GWEN IFILL: Next up on the campaign trail is South Carolina, where Texas Governor Rick Perry, who skipped New Hampshire, is already campaigning and attacking Romney. The Republican primary there is 11 days away.
Well, Judy, you know, actually, everybody is focusing on South Carolina. And some folks are leaving for that destination, including Newt Gingrich later tonight. But what's happening here in New Hampshire is shaping up to be an interesting race for second place, including someone like Jon Huntsman, who really doesn't have a chance to survive or at least a path for survival much after New Hampshire.
We did something interesting today, Judy. We called back the couple that we talked to for last night's piece, Tom and Melindi Byrne. You remember them?
JUDY WOODRUFF: Sure.
GWEN IFILL: Don and Melindi Byrne.
We talked to them about — they were undecided. They had changed their minds. And so we asked them, who did you really both for? And they said, both of them, they voted for Jon Huntsman. So, if those independents made up their mind, maybe he will see some sort of a surge tonight.
JUDY WOODRUFF: So, Gwen, we talk about expectations. And the expectations have changed. This has been a tough couple of days for Mitt Romney. Who sets those expectations?
I think people watching this crazy process often want to know, who is the great setter of numbers of who comes in first, second and third and by how much?
GWEN IFILL: Well, you know, it was only a couple of months ago when we started — if you look at it on the graph, you see that Mitt Romney has been leading by multiple double digits for a long, long time.
And in the last week, he's begun to lose some ground, lose some ground. So people begin to think, if you don't win by 30 points, then you didn't win, especially if you've run in Massachusetts — in New Hampshire before, you were the governor of Massachusetts.
But on the other hand, the expectations for Jon Huntsman are also high because he spent so much time campaigning here and skipped New Hampshire. So that's where the expectations game — sometimes, the candidates set them themselves.
JUDY WOODRUFF: What about somebody like Ron Paul, Gwen, who made a big effort in Iowa, came in a decent third, a close third, right behind Romney and Santorum, and who has been really giving it all — it his all this week?
GWEN IFILL: Well, the problem is he hasn't exactly been giving it his all. He didn't come straight here from Iowa. He took a couple of days off.
He's been showing up and campaigning, but not with the kind of vigor that we saw him campaigning with in Iowa. And his numbers have begun to reflect that as well. But as we have talked about a lot, Ron Paul voters aren't going anywhere. And he today came out and actually started defending Romney against the attacks on him by some of the other candidates.
So that's a curious turn of events. And we're waiting to see what that means.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And what about Santorum, the man who did come in a very close second in Iowa? There's some discussion now about whether he should have competed in New Hampshire or gone straight on to South Carolina.
GWEN IFILL: Well, it's interesting. Rick Santorum really did get a second look his first few days here in New Hampshire. Voters came out to his events. They wanted to know who he was. But he didn't have an extra dime to spend on television ads.
In fact, the only people who were on television here were Ron Paul, Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney. So if you didn't already know these guys, there was no way to know them. So he's going on find himself in a warmer bath of water in South Carolina, where there are more social conservatives. And that wasn't the case here in New Hampshire, Judy.
JUDY WOODRUFF: So, Gwen, you have covered a couple of these New Hampshire primaries, at least.
JUDY WOODRUFF: How does it feel different this year, 2012? What's different?
GWEN IFILL: This one is actually really a lot less vigorous than they have been in the past, in part because we only have one party in a real competitive situation. We didn't have that four years ago.
You remember, Barack Obama, we thought this time four years ago, that he was going to win the New Hampshire primary. And Hillary Clinton came out of nowhere. So there was a little drama. It's not as dramatic this time. And that's what we're going to be talking about. We're going to find out why in just a moment.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Great. And I know you have got a guest you're going to talk to there.
GWEN IFILL: That's right.


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Again I am very mad at this stupid thing.. somehow I managed to hit the back button just before submitting my message, and it was lost forever.
I'll try to sum up some of what I had written:
to Clyde:
Man, I think you have just a little bit too much pride in your "Ability to think things out for yourself". Also, I think you might want to check your ears (hehe.. okay then, eyes..) because you didn't read what I wrote. I said, that I *was beggining to think* that you were one of those who didn't think for himself. Note that I *DID NOT SAY that you don't think for yourself!!!!!*
(that's what I would call making snap decisions, being offended easily, and generally opening your mouth b4 you think about it.. yes I may have been a little rude.. but your comments were uncalled for.)
to Solidarity:
Yes, unfortunately, it does seem that alot of churches these days (and all through history for that matter) claim to hold the bible as truth, and yet treat it as just some kind of guideline, not to be taken seriously or anything.
I also agree that, if you simply cannot find any faithful churches, it is probably much better to not attend those other (unfaithful) churches; however I'm sure it would be a good idea to try your best to find a faithful church
to joshdic:
did you read that article? just wondering as you didn't comment..
That's all for now; I really am too busy to be writing this at the moment (especially since I lost my long post... grrr.. )


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"Warning! Drinking this could seriously harm your health."
Now I don't know about you, but if I read that on a bottle then I would think twice about letting it anywhere near my lips – the prospect of being unwell is never a particularly appetising one.
But if Conservative MP Tracey Crouch gets her way, such health warnings could be appearing on cans and bottles of all alcoholic drinks.
It sounds depressing – seeing a black and white danger sticker on a prized 2008 bottle of Rioja would somehow take the edge off it.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm all in favour of having a good time but the sad truth is that too many of us drink far too much.
The UK has a serious alcohol problem and the stats make for scary reading: one in seven A&E attendances is due to alcohol. Liver disease has doubled in the last 20 years among young adults, and today over half of teenage girls regularly binge drink.
Just think, if we Brits were more responsible with our liquor, we could save the country a hefty £21 billion annually. Which is a lot of money – enough to host the London Olympics twice a year in fact. Yes, yes, before you say it, a bit of tipple can be good for us. People who drink a small amount of alcohol – especially red wine – seem to live slightly longer. But the 'red wine health benefits' are greatly exaggerated. You really don't need very much to be in optimum health – up to one small glass of wine (1-2 units) a day is plenty. Clearly that's not enough to get many people doing karaoke on the table top.
Even people who think of themselves as 'moderate' drinkers often overdo it without realising.
The suggested limit for a man is four units a day and three units for a woman. Regularly going over this quota can harm the liver, heart, brain; it can lead to obesity and certain cancers, and can even harm fertility and cause a man to lose his 'va-va-voom'.
It sounds like the Government may be on to something with their warning labels, then. But don't pop the Champagne corks too quickly. Such a scheme is likely to fizz because folk can be remarkably strong-willed about their drinking habits.
Research shows that, unlike tobacco warnings, alcohol labelling doesn't make people cut back. Rather, the evidence repeatedly demonstrates that the key to making people drink less is to put the price up and make it more difficult to get hold of.
When you consider that 24-hour supermarkets sell big box beer deals that work out cheaper than bottled water, it's hardly surprising Saturday nights in A&E are hairy.
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As it appears some of you enjoyed my prior playoff question, lets try another one.
Is talent more important in the regular season or in the playoffs
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As it appears some of you enjoyed my prior playoff question, lets try another one.
Is talent more important in the regular season or in the playoffs
Talent is more important in the regular season. The playoffs require more than just talent..It requires a dominating will and going out there and putting it into overdrive. The entire season up until now holds no merit at all. All that really matters is winning the Finals...And it requires much more then talent alone to get there. Talent can get you by in the regular season..but not now.
If you assume both teams have good people/chemistry, then it always matters the same. You have to have it to win. I don't think it's more important in the playoffs. What wins now is playing together, being able to score in the clutch, being able to rebound, and to get stops.Quote:
Originally Posted by Unclebuck
Talent matters more than coaching, less than heart.
Talent matters more in the playoffs.
If you hustle, play good D, and work a good team concept, you'll get a lot of wins in the regular season.
But you don't win in the playoffs without talent.
talent means less.
You dont MAKE it to the playoffs without talent, so the fact you need it to win in the playoffs is irrelevant.
The difference-maker is what happens when talent cancels out talent, and each team takes the other team out of its normal game.
It all boils down to excecution, and communication on the floor. Chemistry is what wins it for you.
Talent is more important in the playoffs primarily because teams give away games during the regular season.
Without talent, you are 4 and out in the playoffs.... or .000....but you can still get 20 W's during the regular season and go .250.
I'm having a hard time with this question. What Kstat said makes a lot of sense, at least in part, but I'd hate to be caught agreeing with Kstat. :blush:
I'm not sure the question being asked and the question being answered are the same.
Talent probably matters just the same. What is different is that its your "top" talent that matters in the playoffs - how unstoppable are your top two players and how unstoppable are your opponents top two players. It doesn't matter at all in the playoffs that your sixth man is better than the opponent's sixth man.
In the regular season, you can win games because you have more talent on your bench. Not so in the playoffs.
I guess I'd say it is the same. The same 3 or 4 teams talented enough to be favored in the regular season are the same that are good enough to win in the post season.
On the scale of coaching or whatever factors it is of a higher importance because if you aren't at the top of the NBA's pyriamd of talent you don't have a chance regardless of coaching or heart.
Yes, that's it. I was wondering why this thread felt really weird.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jay@Section204
It is more important in the playoffs. You need a certain amount of ability in your top players. You can overachieve in the season...
My point is, in the playoffs, talent level means LESS because EVERYBODY that gets there has telent. Little things like chemistry and team work is what sets teams apart in 7-game series, not talent.
I guess it also depends what round you are talking about.
I think Kstat pretty much nailed it and I'd like to add something. Both teams in a playoff series will have talent anyway. One can have more than the other, even considerably more, and still get beaten. If a team has chemistry, it can overcome superior talent in a single game, or a 7 game series. Talent gets you there, but the team that can add talent to heart and teamplay in the playoffs wins the whole shebang.
Originally Posted by Jay@Section204
Jay I actually agree with what you're saying here.
I think talent is a lot more important in the playoffs than it is during the regular season. In the regular season wins and losses are determined by a lot of things. The schedule, who's healthy and who isn't, but also by how hard a team plays on a certain night. In the playoffs all teams play hard, so talent wins out more often.
The 6ers and the Nets were clearly overmatched talent wise. I don't think its accurate to say the Lakers beat either team because of "the little things like chemistry and team work". The Lakers were simply more talented and blew them both out.
And on the flip side, the Pistons used teamwork and great D to overcome the Lakers superior talent.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fool
Indeed, I would have mentioned as much but it seemed that side of the argument had plenty of backing already.
I have trouble with any questions involving "talent" for a number of reasons:
1) Is it talent or is it hype?
2) Is the talent being used properly (coaching)?
3) Is the talent in a place that supports the game (if you are a great dunker but can be kept away from the paint your talent is worthless)?
4) Is the talent supported by other team abilities (if outside shooting sucks the greatest center in the world can be collapsed upon and neutralized)?
5) Is it the talent of a single player or the overall level of talent in the team (at one point it was said you had to have two "superstars" to win - then came the Pistons)?
Because of this, I think most of the time just tossing out the word "talent" is really both a cop-out and buying into the whole "promote the individual player and they will come" marketing mentality of the NBA.
Where it matters to me is in the talent of the entire rotation, and in that sense I would agree with those who say that a level of talent is needed but in the playoffs it isn't so much "how much" but "where in the rotation is it concentrated".
The question was: "Is talent more important in the regular season or in the playoffs".
The question is not whether talent is more important than chemistry or teamwork. If we want to entertain that question, it is fairly easy to answer. Chemistry and teamwork are more important than talent either in the regular season or playoffs. Ron Ron has a lot of talent, but what good is he? Detroit beat a disfunctional Laker team with far more talent a few years ago.
In any event, the answer to the original question is the playoffs because, assuming a team makes the playoffs, the regular season really doesn't matter anyway. Players don't make best use of their talent until it really matters.
Well, maybe the Pistons' talent is teamwork and great D.Quote:
Originally Posted by travmil
That's my problem with the question. What exactly do you mean by talent?
Originally Posted by BlueNGold
Again I would bring up the Nets and the 6ers. They played pretty well together to get to the finals, but all that team work was for naught against the talent of the Lakers.
My first thought in both of these threads (so far) has been "What isn't more important in the playoffs?" You know, except the bench.
Looking at it another way, are we saying the Lakers did NOT play well together, with team work?


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White House official says enforcement is coming soon
According to attendees, Schmidt said White House guidance is coming very soon, with an enforcement order and funding "to make sure we do it."
Related coverage:
VA two years behind schedule on issuing secure ID cards
Schmidt was speaking at a Titans of Technology breakfast presented by the Northern Virginia Technology Council.
Enhancing Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12, which requires the cards, has been a challenge, Schmidt said, according to attendees. The cards -- PIV in civilian agencies, Common Access Cards in the Defense Department -- are intended to control access to government facilities and information systems. However, HSPD-12 required agencies to issue the cards, but includes no mandate to actually use them.
DOD is using the CAC,Schmidt reportedly said, but the intent is to control access governmentwide, and the cards are for contractors too. Schmidt told the audience that getting agencies to use the PIV cards is a priority project.
President George W. Bush enacted HSPD-12 in 2004.
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Congress and watchdog agencies have dinged the IRS for lacking an enterprise cloud strategy seven years after it became the official policy of the U.S. government.
The General Services Administration posted detailed data on how the $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract might be divvied up.
The White House announced a long-planned move to elevate Cyber Command to the status of a full combatant command.
Verizon says it will carve a dedicated network out of its extensive national 4G LTE network for first responders, in competition with FirstNet.
The Heritage Foundation is recommending that hundreds of thousands of federal jobs be replaced by automation as part of a larger government reorganization strategy.
Defense officials hope the Common Access Card's days are numbered as they continue to test new identity management solutions.
Since CAC was already up and running, and paid for, why did the civilian agencies pay millions and take years to reinvent the wheel? Just stand up another copy of the CAC system. PIV/CAC/TWC/trusted traveler et al, should have all be common-serviced from the get-go.
No one talks about the cost. I figure the cost of the whole system with background checks and computers and the folks who issue them only from secure centers, is about $1000/card.
If someone has real data, please let the rest of us know. No one talks about the cost when I ask but they want to issue them to 4 million employees and contractors which works out to a kewl $4 BILLION.
And of course, managing all your security from one place is not the most secure posture to take. More money down the 'security' drain.
Yesterday, I drove 3 hours each way to "enroll" to get my HSPD12 card. I already had a background investigation and fingerprints on file. In 2 weeks, the card will be mailed back to that office, and I will have to spend another 6 hours on the road to "activate" it. In the military, a CAC card could be issued at each major base in a matter of 15 minutes. If Federal Agencies continue to be this inefficient with their employees time, the PIV program won't do much good because people won't voluntarily go get them (most at my office haven't). There are many solutions, one of which is to have a mobile enrollment/activation station that travels around the state once a quarter until 90% of the employees are complete.
Six years later it is decided to force the use of the cards. Wonder if that is because a certain foreign power has already managed to penetrate the CAC system and suck data out of government computers? One benefit of the CAC though, I do not have to remember 15+ different name/password combinations (all different formats to help confuse things) like I did in the 80's early 90's, I just have to enter my CAC pin three or four times to access data I need (or in the case of training, it was two times, not counting unlocking the PC). The downside is, if you forget/lose the CAC, many people are essentially worthless for the day in today's inter/intranet centric work environment, even our technicians repairing equipment have to CAC in to do any work. Although I still have to have the CAC or my retired ID to get on base, a line badge to get inside the compound, a building badge to access the building, and then the CAC again to get into the computer and I am glad I do not work in the spook rooms, that is still another badge. And they all use some form of RF ID or electrical contact. Too bad they can not combine them all into one card. (yeah, poor English structure in that paragraph)
Great idea.... if the damned things worked. My agency has been using them for about 14 months just for building access and the readers fail frequently, the cards fail without warning and the turn around time for a replacement card from GSA is 3 weeks. At least when we had locally administered "castle" cards we could get a replacement the same day. They are also expensive which makes it a cost and administration headache to issue them to contractors who may be on short duration assignments (3-6 mo)since they cant be re-used/rte-issued.-
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Baked Cheesy Onion Veggie Dip
Recipe by Mamas Kitchen Hope
Fantastic dip for any get together. Great way to sneak veggies into the picky ones! Adjust the veggies to use what you like, what you have or just what you think would be good. The meat here is very optional. Make this veggie friendly by omitting it all together. Make it carnivore friendly by adding the meat option. Really ANY meat ground or chopped would work here. Enjoy!
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Absolutely delish! I halved the recipe, omitted the mushrooms, and then used turkey bacon, light mayo, and a bag of mexican cheese instead of the cheddar and mozerella. The kids were digging in without knowing what was in it. :D Thanks for the great recipe! I can't believe it hasn't been tried before now.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 4 green onions
- 4 ounces mushrooms, cleaned
- 1⁄2 bell pepper, any color
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 2 cups mozzarella cheese, shredded
- 2 cups cheddar cheese, shredded
- 4 ounces black olives (optional)
- 4 slices bacon, cooked, crumbled (optional) or 1 lb ground sausage, browned and drained (optional)
Directions See How It's Made
- Chop, mince, dice or slice veggies to your desired size and shape. I like to chop everything and mince the garlic with my garlic press.
- Sauté onions, mushrooms and bell pepper until soft and onions are translucent. Add garlic and sauté one minute more.
- Add mayo, mozzarella, cheddar and chopped olives and meat if using. Stir to combine.
- Scoop all into an 8x8 glass pan or similar size oven proof dish. Bake at 350°F until melted and dip-like (is that a word?) About 15-20 minutes.
- Enjoy on corn chips, tortilla chips or crackers.
- Feel free to adjust amount and type of veggies to your taste. Just keep the cheese and mayo mixture the same.
- Some other great veggies to add or substitute would be seeded tomatoes, zucchini, artichokes, hot peppers, etc.


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John Travolta Butchers Idina Menzel's Name at Academy Awards [VIDEO]
Who's Adele Nazeem? Apparently John Travolta thinks it's Idina Menzel. The actor more than mispronounced Idina's name just before her live performance of Frozen's 'Let It Go' on last night's Academy Awards, he didn't even come close to getting it right. It seemed like the teleprompter people were punking him.


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The former 'Bachelor' contestant now knows how it feels to be sent home after his dance in the Samba-Tango week did not garner enough votes.
The Bachelor himself is eliminated. Jake Pavelka is leaving "Dancing with the Stars" this week after stumbling in samba and criticized by the judges as having poor wiggle ability. For having the lowest combined score, Jake was in the bottom two along with Niecy Nash who didn't do well in tango.
"You know what, this is, I think, the best season of Dancing With [the] Stars I've seen," Jake said after learning his fate. "I was so honored to be here. I enjoyed every second of this. I want to thank Texas, I want to thank all the Mavericks fans, Canada, all the tweets, Facebook. ...thank you for keeping me here for six episodes. I can't even put it into words how much I enjoyed this."
And with teary eyes, Jake turned to his dancing partner, Chelsie Hightower, and said "Thank you so much. You're one of my best friends. I have loved every second of this. I love you. Thank you for being so great to my beautiful fiancee Vienna. Thank you everybody for watching and keeping me in."


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My problem started when I installed my site, but I figured out how to make it work through configurations not realizing what a mess I was getting myself into. Today I tried to correct the problem and now the site isn't working properly (I think the site is not seeing the theme or css, but the content and navigation is there). I tried to remember all the changes I made today to get it back to working and I think I did, but it's still not working.
The site domain name is washington-dc-area-historic-house-sale.com which should direct to http://washington-dc-area-historic-house-sale.com/housesale/wp/ but you can see it's not working right.
Any help would be appreciated.
The long story:
When I installed the site, I already had a directory set up for the domain name (housesale), but since I installed using Fantastico, it asked me to create a new directory for the installation. It's on a shared host, so I didn't want to mess anything up. Since I had the extra directory (wp), I used it in the configuration in the general setting using a different WordPress Address (http://washington-dc-area-historic-house-sale.com/wp) and Site Address (http://washington-dc-area-historic-house-sale.com/housesale/wp), not realizing that I was setting up yet another directory that I didn't want (another wp in the root).
When the site was all set up, I wanted the domain name to resolve to the actual site, so I set the htaccess file to make that happen (RewriteBase /wp/). It was working fine, but it looked like a redirect instead of the actual domain name which I thought would be a problem when listing the site.
Not realizing the general settings file was causing a problem, I tried resetting my domain name in the addons in the cpanel and I tried resetting the htaccess, the root directory (renaming the wp folder in the housesale folder & moving the wp folder from the root inside the housesale folder), and finally the general settings. All of these things just made the problem worse, so I tried working backward so everything would be the way it was originally – put all directories in original locations (I know the right ones are in the original locations because the files inside are different between the two wp folders), reset the addon domain, reset the htaccess (since there is more than one, I tried different settings on each and left what makes the site not have a 404 error), and reset the general settings. But the site is still not working properly.
Maybe I could somehow start over while still keeping the database and basic web site without starting over to create it?
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Get an overview of this hotelFamily-friendly Dhaka hotel in Gulshan with 5 restaurants
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This family-friendly Dhaka hotel is located near the airport, within 1 mi (2 km) of Gulshan Circle 1, Gulshan South Paka Market D.N.C.C., and Gulshan Ladies Park. Baridhara Central Mosque and United Hospital are also within 1 mi (2 km).
Hotel Features
Along with 5 restaurants, this hotel has a full-service spa and an outdoor pool. Self parking is free. Other amenities include 3 bars/lounges, a 24-hour fitness center, and a poolside bar.
Room Amenities
All 235 rooms boast deep soaking tubs and offer pillowtop beds and 24-hour room service. For a bit of entertainment, LCD TVs come with satellite channels, and guests will also find coffee makers and free newspapers.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
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Hotel Amenities
In addition to a full-service spa, The Westin Dhaka features an outdoor pool and a sauna. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 5 restaurants and guests can grab coffee at one of the 2 coffee shops/cafés. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include 3 bars/lounges and a poolside bar. Public areas are equipped with wireless Internet access (surcharge).
Business amenities at this 5-star property consist of a business center, limo/town car service, and meeting rooms. Event facilities measure 5675 square feet (511 square meters). This luxury hotel also offers a children's pool, a 24-hour fitness center, and spa services. For a surcharge, the property provides a roundtrip airport shuttle and an area shuttle. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
- 24-hour front desk
- Children's club (surcharge)
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 235
- ATM/banking
- Number of floors - 23
- Number of bars/lounges - 3
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Business center
- Number of coffee shops/cafes - 2
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Full-service spa
- Hair salon
- Pool umbrellas
- Tours/ticket assistance
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Children's club
- Laundry facilities
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Meeting rooms 2
- Multilingual staff
- Terrace
- Poolside bar
- Luggage storage
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Conference space size (meters) - 511
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Number of restaurants - 5
- Conference space size (feet) - 5675
- Free self parking
- Sauna
- Shopping on site
- Spa services on site
- Children's pool
- Outdoor pool
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Children's pool
- Laundry facilities
Available in some public areas: Wireless internet access ( BDT 1037.3 per day )
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Air conditioning
- Free newspaper
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Phone
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Deep soaking bathtub
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Satellite TV service
- Room service (24 hours)
- Pillowtop mattress
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Prego - This restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine and serves lunch and dinner.
Seasonal Tastes - This restaurant specializes in regional cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Splash - This poolside restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves light fare only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Daily Treats - This cafe specializes in international cuisine and serves breakfast and light fare. Open 24 hours.
Prego Bar - This bar specializes in international cuisine and serves light fare only.
24-hour room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
An outdoor pool and a children's pool are on site. Other recreational amenities include a sauna and a 24-hour fitness center.
Spa Services
Guests can indulge in a pampering treatment at the hotel's full-service spa. Services include massages.
- Massages
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-in time ends at 2 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available.
- No pets or service animals allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: BDT 12.65 per day (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: BDT 1037.3 per day (rates may vary)
- Airport shuttle fee: BDT 8298.4 per vehicle (one-way)
- Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee
Hotel Name
- Dhaka Westin
- Westin Dhaka
- Westin Hotel Dhaka
- Dhaka City Westin
- Westin Dhaka City
- Westin Dhaka Dhaka Division, Bangladesh
- Westin Dhaka Hotel Dhaka City
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The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.


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"Danger! High Voltage" rockers Electric Six to play in Columbia Saturday
Whether you'll throw a punch or buy them a beer, this band wants you there.
After 17 years of performing, you might think a band would be on its last leg or at least starting to consider calling it quits. But the genre-blurring, energetic band Electric Six is far from it.
"It's a never-ending story — our story," lead singer and songwriter Dick Valentine says. "We're going to be a band for 50 to 60 years, and we're right in the middle of that right now."
Valentine is the only remaining member of the group that formed back in 1996, known then as The Wildbunch.
"We were a local band in Detroit, comprised of five people who didn't necessarily like each other, but tolerated each other," Valentine says. "A lot of people in that original lineup left the band, and then many of the people who replaced them are currently with us today. I'm not a geometrician, but if I were to define our arc, I would say it would have scoliosis."
The band was also forced to change its name when it signed a record deal, but the members landed happily on Electric Six, which Valentine describes as the perfect name for the band.
Electric Six has since released eight studio albums and a live album. Right now, the band is working on its ninth studio album and will release a live DVD later this year.
Electric Six originally broke onto the mainstream scene in 2003 with its debut studio album Fire, which featured the wild hits "Danger! High Voltage," "Gay Bar" and "Dance Commander." They have since been known chiefly for their high-energy shows and often-bizarre lyrics.
"(Our songs) aren't really about anything," Valentine says. "I'd say it's a selection of topic du jour – whatever the topic of the day was when we wrote it … As for the music, if you look at our first album, it's very guitar and bar chord-oriented music. Over the last 10 years, we've gotten a bit more experimental. We're not a prog-rock band by any means, but we're taking baby steps in that direction."
Electric Six describes its latest release, the live album Absolute Pleasure, as a painstakingly accurate representation of an Electric Six show. Valentine promises the set at Mojo's, the band's third show of the tour, will follow a similar trajectory.
"We're going to give you the quintessential Electric Six show," Valentine says. "We've played Mojo's many, many times. We know how to approach that stage and we know the dimensions inside and out. You're going to be able to interact with us because there is no dressing room at Mojo's, so we're going to be out in plain sight – if you want to take a swing at us, you can take a swing at us, or if you want to buy us a beer, you can buy us a beer."


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Some Mexican American Studies courses would no longer be used to satisfy core-curriculum requirements under a resolution expected to be presented Tuesday to the TUSD Governing Board president.
The resolution, written by President Mark Stegeman, has created a division among board members over a program that already has garnered the attention of state lawmakers.
Two members - Judy Burns and Adelita Grijalva - have said they won't support it and say the timing for its introduction is bad considering that the Arizona Department of Education is scrutinizing the program to determine if it complies with state law.
Board member Michael Hicks has never been a proponent of the courses' being part of the core curriculum, so he intends to back Stegeman's resolution.
Member Miguel Cuevas says he hasn't decided.
Though it's been argued that a structural change like the one Stegeman is pushing would kill the program, Stegeman said that's not his intention.
"What's very important to me is that the traditional core social-studies classes do not provide adequate coverage of alternative viewpoints," Stegeman said.
His goal in bringing the resolution forward is to strengthen those classes by adding a significant component that focuses on the contributions and viewpoints of Mexican Americans and other ethnic minorities, he said.
Conversely, Stegeman also is concerned that some Mexican American social-studies courses do not provide adequate coverage of core topics required by the state.
The program's courses are in line with state standards, Mexican American Studies program Director Sean Arce argues.
Arce says he's concerned about turning the courses into electives because fewer students would have any incentive to take them.
"The content stands as a legitimate form of knowledge and legitimate American history," Arce said. "More importantly, the graduation outcomes and AIMS outcomes for these particular students point to the efficacy of the program."
Burns agreed, saying students already have their days filled with required courses. "They don't have time in the day to take more classes, let alone double up on history."
Though Stegeman admits there will likely be a decline in enrollment as a result, he doesn't see it as the demise of the program.
"We've heard from all kinds of students how wonderful these courses are," Stegeman said. "If the students believe that to be true, those who really are getting something out of it will choose to take it."
If the resolution is adopted, it wouldn't affect students who already have taken Mexican American social studies courses for core credit.
There is a possibility that Mexican American Studies literature courses could continue to satisfy the state's core English requirement.
In the resolution, Stegeman said there is value to the courses, saying they have increased students' motivation to succeed.
And he said the proposal has little to do with the state law.
"There is nothing in this resolution about the courses causing ethnic resentment or anything to indicate that we are in violation of the law," Stegeman said. "What this is about is that the program is not set up optimally, and I believe that we would have gotten to this sooner or later. I think these reforms make sense."
However, Stegeman did say that the resolution is partially driven by the state investigation in an indirect way: The district may be in a stronger position if it can show that it adopted comprehensive reform on its own.
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Rotten Chemicals on Saturn
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sounds like it would be in a metroid prime game or another space game.
It sort of makes me think of empty space.
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i made an ambient track and i get yelled at by some douche
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A NEW community garden has been created in Runcorn.
A dilapidated piece of derelict land beside Palacefields Community Centre has been transformed into a space where residents can grow plants, flowers, fruits and vegetables.
Riverside, the town's largest social landlord funded the project.
More volunteers are now needed to develop the garden.
Neil Townsend, Riverside divisional director, said: "We already have a keen team of local gardeners working on the raised beds and planting in the greenhouse, but we are looking for more people to get involved.
"It's a great opportunity for older people to work alongside younger residents and take pride in their community together."
The project forms part of Riverside's Livetime work, encouraging older people to get involved in the community and combat isolation.


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Not a Quick Fix…
Not A Quick Fix… 8 31 2014
Its OK to think big on this one guys! Put aside the profit side this situation, lets get down to the real problem. There is no guidance from the other side so lets make some ground rules. Fukushima. Rule out the IAEA, the Japanese government, the NRC, and the others that make up the powers that be. No way, by edict, decree, or rule of law shall the world be threatened, unabated, by the inability, ineptness, or lack of compassion for their own citizens, for this catastrophe to continue unabated.
This is a One World problem. Three years, on the job. The frozen containment wells have not proven effective. The work has been stopped. Many parts of the clean up has been problematic at best. Between fires, additional earthquakes, structural collapse, as well as ongoing situations of "criticality", with only partial structural enclosure the world continues to receive unbelievable doses of radiation thru the air, as well as the unchecked continued contamination of the Pacific Ocean, from runoff of well over 400 tons of contaminated water daily for the past three years.
The Ocean will dilute it. Come on. That one would have worked when it was 2800 barrels off Omaha Beach in the English Channel in the 60s. Tell me another one. Of the major components, the least of which have a half-life of twenty eight years, the rest go from hundreds of years to thousands of years. There are no gamma sponges to use. Mr. Clean won't get the job done. Bounty isn't the "Quicker picker upper." Don't blow me off. This is a tuff nut to crack. It's time to get down to business and "talk turkey". We, the United States, are in this up to our eye balls. GE has a very big seat at the table. They have been there for the profit. They are there for the blame.
The MOX fuel that has been provided by England, at best is questionable. Don't ask for details. Some had been on the shelf for at least 10 years before being transferred to Daiichi and installed. And on it goes. With two of the reactors unaccounted for, plutonium rods scattered about, with reports of them being projected into the ocean like mortars, during the explosions, cracks in the containment areas from earth quakes, two tunnels, forty feet below sea level, containing 10,00 tons of water, and being the place where the plutonium is in melt down. Estimated amount? Three hundred tons. That includes the rods of "spent fuel" that makes good firewood too.
In my opinion, its time to call out "The SeaBees, The DevilDogs, Our Roughnecks and throw in the Steel Walkers. We have already had 77,000 Americans that have been put in harms way, by just showing up to be friendly three years ago. Japan has used up 33,000 workers already, have accumulated at least 10,000 lost lives, and Tepco, and their government have lied to the public from the "get go." What good will it do to make a fuss? Ask my dumb ass again, five years from now. It is expected to take 42 years, by their projection to clean this mess up. The Pacific Ocean is at stake, first of all. NOW!
I was not a very skilled sailor while in the Navy. I was in Intelligence and had shore duty. Two things I do know. The importance of the "North Star", and that the "Seven Seas" of the world are all connected. For "Christ's Sake". I can give you a strategy.
Let's throw this against the wall and see if it sticks. How about calling this the Fukushima Project. Not to be confused with the "Manhattan Project". That came in at about one billion dollars in 1940s money. Would having earth inhabitable be worth a trillion dollars in today's money? The wells on the high side of the plant are inadequate. Ground water is the major problem. The amount of artesian activity is unknown. Water layers and mountain run off have to be diverted by channels. If necessary, cut all the way to bed rock, in the shape of a "rainbow" at a minimum distance of 1 mile out from the plant, and one at 2 miles if necessary. Pumper wells can be installed closer if necessary.
At least humans can work at possible survival levels there. It has been proven that beryllium has a melting temperature of 5ooo degrees. It can be used to dampen or control a nuclear melt down. Before that, after controlling the water flow, seal the area inside the break water, from the ocean. Proceed to fill it with kitty litter like the NRC has done so effectively at WIPP in Carlsbad, New Mexico. USA Isn't it amazing… less than 100 miles from the head waters of the El Paso River. Guess what the Columbia River runs close to in Washington state? It is in the same general area of 160 wineries. Oh well, that is another story too.
Absorb what waste water that can be controlled. With hundreds of storage tanks already, full to the brim and leaking, water is a major problem. Back to beryllium. Use some bunker busters to break down the tunnels under ground, also carrying large amounts of beryllium to help control the melt down in progress, preferably implosion type bombs. Using mobile motorized drilling rigs, drill enough wells below that level then, using fracking techniques and pump cement slurry at extreme high pressure. (You don't think I don't understand what I'm asking do you?) Getting the surface water under control, the contaminated waters for cooling purposes that could be filtered and recircleulated as they are attempting to do now, only on a much larger scale. Isolate the Ocean, minimize the water flow, and contain the air borne radiation with an enclosure or money will soon have no meaning.
You are not laughing at me. The answer everyone is looking for is not "death". You brains thunk this up… now clean it up, or we will take your toys away. Don't look down on me with you superior intellect and vast knowledge , at least till we get this job done. Savvy?
Shoot holes in everything I have said, but never the less and just the same, its a problem!
I saw two young men wearing toboggans today, and its August in Alabama. What do they know about fall out from the sky. Talk to some of the help at Hanford, Washington.
I like eggs "Sunny Side Up." May God have mercy on us. TRKby


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How can I let him know that I'm into him without scaring him off? and How to to tell if a shy guy likes you?
I'm into this shy guy, and we are friends and try our best to always hang out. We went a couple of weeks without seeing each other and when I saw him and asked if we were on hugging status yet, he joked around saying he forgot to wear deodorant. But he told me he missed hanging out. He doesn't really make eye contact, though we hang out often but he doesn't seem comfortable with physical contact- yet we can spend hours just talking and joking around.
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You don't have to worry, because most of guys for some reason, which is in their nature, are very slow to adapt. No matter how many times you tell him (or do) something, he just doesn't seem to get it.
This is why you need patience.
Don't be offended when you don't get exactly the response you would expect from him. He will listen to you if you stand in front of him with an attitude (but don't act like you're his mother), and that will work.
Break that believing that men and women are from different planet, and get to know him. Every day you have a chance to find out something new about him. Use that, and you'll have a better relationship which gets even better as days go by.
And remember, you must focus on how he thinks, instead of how you think. That is a common mistake that girls do when they try to solve some problem with their man. Be aware the signals you are sending to him.
I offered you help here with some advices, just use them and everything will be just fine. I'm interested to help you, but there are some things you need to learn before it's too late.
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Although this is the second day of deliberations in the Selwyn Days double murder trial, the number and type of readbacks requested by the jury may suggest that the jury is deadlocked.
Yesterday, the jury asked to re-hear Days' confession to the brutal 1996 slayings of 79-year-old Eastchester millionaire Archie Harris and his 35-year-old home health aide, Betty Ramcharan, as well as the definition of reaonable doubt. They also asked to see a calendar from 1996 (alibi witnesses said Days was in North Carolina in the days before the murders) and to re-hear testimony from a man who said that one of his employees saw Days in New York around the time of the killings.
Today, the jury asked to re-hear testimony from a former Mount Vernon police captain who took the anonymous call in 2001 that suggested Days was responsible for the murders. The call came from Days' ex-girlfriend, Cherlyn Mayhew.
Days, a former Mount Vernon resident, is on trial for the third time. His first trial in 2003 ended in a mistrial; he was convicted the following year and sentenced to serve 50 years to life in prison. A judge overturned the verdict in 2009 and ordered a new trial. The current trial, before Westchester County Judge Barry Warhit, began Feb. 7.
If the Days' case has a hung jury, it will be the second mistrial in a homicide case this month in Westchester County Courts. On March 4, a jury deadlocked after 4 1/2 days of deliberations in the manslaughter trial of former Eastchester police officer James Pileggi. The breakdown was 1-2 for conviction. The District Attorney's office plans to retry the case.


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Drogba wasn't in the Chelsea squad for the games against Southend and Stoke after having a poor game in the 3-0 loss to Manchester United.
Manager Luiz Felipe Scolari wouldn't go into why he used teenagers Franco Di Santo and Miroslav Stoch against Stoke and didn't have Drogba dress.
"I didn't have Drogba on the bench, I had Stoch and Di Santo and they gave me what I wanted," Scolari said. "I didn't have Drogba on the bench because it was my choice. Nothing has happened between me and Drogba. He is training every day. It is only my choice. Next week, I will decide whether to play him or stay with the same 18 players. It is my choice. I don't have anything against Drogba, I don't have anything against any player in the club. I choose my players. I am the coach and my choice is final. And my choice was to use Di Santo and Stoch."
Manchester United momentarily moved to the top of the Premier League with a 1-0 win over Bolton on Saturday, its fifth straight league win.
The shutout was the 10th in a row for United, which was without four first-team defenders.
Liverpool, which trails United by one point, hosts Everton on Monday (TV: Setanta Sports USA, live, 2 pm). With American Tim Howard in goal, Everton has run off six straight shutouts of its own.
Chelsea is third, a point behind Liverpool, and Aston Villa is a point behind the Blues in fourth.


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Prince Zeid al-Hussein of Jordan, a veteran diplomat and campaigner for international justice, will become the first UN human-rights chief from the Muslim or Arab worlds following his unanimous election by the UN General Assembly.
The 193-member world body burst into applause on Monday when assembly President John Ashe banged his gavel signifying approval by consensus of the prince's nomination to the top human-rights job by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
Zeid, who is Jordan's UN ambassador, praised current High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay of South Africa "for her courageous endeavours" and pledged "to build on her noteworthy achievements".
Zeid's four-year term in the post, which was created by the General Assembly in 1993, will begin on September 1.
"I am going to be the first high commissioner from the Asian continent and from the Muslim and Arab worlds," the prince said.
"This reflects the commitment of the international community towards this important dossier, and this important commitment to push it forward in this continent [Asia] as well as in other regions of the world."
Zeid stressed the independence of the high commissioner's job, which he said "requires wisdom and a high level of coordination and communication with different governments as well as with civil society and all the UN agencies".
The EU's delegate to the UN, Thomas Mayr-Harting, said the prince's "proven track record in the promotion and protection of human rights, the fight against impunity as well as his exceptional diplomatic experience will be an invaluable asset".
Zeid spent five years as an officer in the Jordanian desert police before joining the UN protection force in the former Yugoslavia from 1994 to 1996.
In his long diplomatic career, he has been ambassador to the United Nations twice as well as ambassador to the United States from 2007 to 2010.
The prince is a strong supporter of the International Criminal Court and has spoken out often against sexual violence.
Zeid was a candidate for secretary general when Ban was chosen for the job.
The Jordanian diplomat who will replace Zeid as Amman's UN ambassador is Dina Kawar, who will become the sixth female to head a delegation on the UN Security Council. Jordan will be on the 15-nation council through the end of next year.
Additional reporting by Agence France-Presse