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An Activist's Father needs your help! Don't let ICE tear Astrid Silva's family apart!
A hardworking father (to a friend and incredible activist) who has helped make our country better and has been a law abiding citizen, Cesar Carlos Silva, could be deported on Thursday morning. TAKE ACTION! Send a message to authorities, and remind them our immigration system is BROKEN!
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I just signed the following petition addressed to:
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Senator Harry Reid (NV)
Senator Dean Heller (NV)
Honorable Senators;
A hardworking father who has helped make our country better and has been a law abiding citizen, Cesar Carlos Silva, could be deported on Thursday morning. We, as the undersigned , write to humbly ask that you take action to immediately stop the deportation of Cesar Carlos Silva (A# 75479315).
Cesar Silva, a husband and hardworking father to two children was detained by immigration authorities last week, and is now facing deportation this coming Thursday morning.
Mr. Silva has been a law abiding citizen throughout his entire life, and stay in the United States. Unfortunately, he like many others before him was a victim of a scam by a unlicensed attorney, or at least not licensed to practice in the state of Nevada. Mr. Silva was only trying to do the right thing to adjust his immigration status to remain legally in the United States.
Astrid Silva, Mr. Silva's daughter and a Dreamer, is a passionate activist with a heart of gold who has fought tirelessly for her community, and country that she calls home the United States. Astrid Silva recently graduated with a bachelors degree in Political Science from the University of Las Vegas Nevada with an impressive resume of community service. Astrid is a well known activists, and perhaps Southern Nevada's most active young adult who genuinely dedicates her life to improving her community, with his father as his inspiration.
Mr. Silva is now facing an unfair deportation due to the misrepresentation of an unlicensed attorney. Mr. Silva is by no means a criminal, and deserves an opportunity remain in the United States with his family under the announcement made by Secretary Napolitano and the Department of Homeland Security last August.
Please take an immediate action and help stop the deportation of a good man Cesar Carlos Silva.
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After drinking to the point of blacking out a 17-year-old boy in Altoona, Iowa was run over by a train, only to receive minor injuries.
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Who was St Patrick and why do we celebrate St Patrick's Day?
St Patrick was born in Scotland at the end of the fourth century. When he was a boy, he was captured by a raiding party and taken as a slave to a godless, heathen place called Ireland where he stayed for six years until he escaped home. Actually it wasn't called Ireland then, but Ériu or Hibernia (depending on whether you were a native or a Roman).
Later, young Patrick moved from the British Isles to France where he was ordained a priest and became a bishop: according to legend he awoke one morning from a dream in which he had heard the people of Ireland calling him to convert them to Christianity. Tales of how he accomplished this are legion, the most often repeated being the story of how he held up a shamrock to explain to the people the mystery of the Holy Trinity, thus creating the Irish national symbol.
And, when is St Patrick's Day 2014?
17 March (it always falls on the 17th but not always on a Monday…)
How do the the Irish celebrate St Patrick's Day?
If you're in Ireland, you'll have the day off school or work and wear a sprig of shamrock on your lapel that you probably picked from the garden; if you're devout you'll go to Mass, if you're more of a social animal you'll attend one of the street parades that have started to be imported from America.
If you're in Britain you'll wear the sprig of limp shamrock that your cousins sent you from the Old Country; if you're a child you'll have the day off from your Lenten fast, if an adult you'll sink a couple of drinks and maybe break out your Frank Patterson album in the evening.
In America it gets taken to a whole other level. You probably won't wear a real shamrock, but you almost certainly will wear something green, ranging from a tasteful tie or lapel brooch to an entire emerald ensemble up to and including a green tinsel wig, a hat shaped like a shamrock, and a sweatshirt reading 'Kiss Me, I'm Irish'. If you live in a city with a large Irish population, you'll want to attend the parade; if the city has a river it might well be dyed green for the day; many pubs will serve green beer which you will consume with great enthusiasm; oh, and at some point you'll be served the 'Irish national dish' of corned beef and cabbage. This is a dish unknown in Ireland itself, but which has been associated with the place in Americans' eyes since the nineteenth century, when it was the cheapest food around and thus all that the immigrants could afford to eat.
- The name shamrock is derived from the Irish word seamróg.
- St Patrick's parents were actually Romans, named Calpurnius and Conchessa.
- Of the many miracles attributed to St Patrick the most famous was that he drove serpents out of Ireland. In fact post-glacial Ireland probably never had any snakes to begin with.
- The feast day was first celebrated in America in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1737. More than 34 million American citizens, out of a total of 311 million, claim Irish ancestry.
- Possibly the least-known location for a national holiday on St. Patrick's Day is the island of Montserrat in the Caribbean. It was founded by Irish refugees in the mid seventeenth century.
Why do the Americans go so over the top?
Because they're Americans, remember? And there's also a very justifiable sense of pride in any American with Irish roots. It most likely means their great-great grandparents were able to survive not only the Great Hunger of 1847 – double bluffing points if you know that this was not in fact, as sometimes described, a famine (there was plenty of food in the fertile fields and lush pastures of Ireland, but very little of it except potatoes was available to the natives, and when the potato crop failed the population was decimated) – but also the arduous and often fatal long voyage to America in one of the aptly named 'coffin ships'.
The Irish for 'Happy St Patrick's Day to you' – literally translated, 'the blessings of St Patrick on you' – is Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig ort (pronounced Bann-ach-tee na Fay-la Pwad-rig ort) if you are speaking to one person, Beannachtai na Feile Padrais oraibh (Bann-ach-tee na Fay-la Pwadrig or-iv) if to more than one. Bonus points for knowing that it's only the Scots who refer to their native tongue as the Gaelic; in Ireland it's called the Irish language. Unless you're actually speaking the Irish language, in which case it's called an Gaeilge. Confused? That may just be the point…
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Would you modify your claim now given what has transpired in Iraq since the invasion?
My article stated, and I said at the time, that the US should provide more time to the weapons inspectors, show more patience, and give a chance to the Secretary-General of the UN to mobilize international pressure to persuade Saddam Hussein to relinquish power and go into exile. This was the thrust of my article. Somehow this was translated or interpreted by different people as me endorsing intervention in Iraq. I said, and let me repeat what I said in the article, it is explicitly stated there: give more time to the weapons inspectors, ask Kofi Annan to intervene and persuade Saddam Hussein to leave office.
What I said in reference to possible intervention is what I still believe today, but it was not necessarily applicable to Iraq. What I said was that the use of force is not always legally or morally wrong. There have been situations of genocide in the past where the international community did absolutely nothing -- in the case of Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, or Uganda under Idi Amin, or Rwanda -- and that was wrong. So the use of force is sometimes entirely justifiable in the face of genocide, in the face of imminent war, or to prevent imminent aggression.
In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime -- responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors -- has been removed in itself is a positive development. Another positive development is that millions of Iraqis defied the widespread violence and went to the polls several times to cast their vote. If the Iraqis were not happy with their new situation, they would have said no to the elections, they would not have voted, particularly in view of the violence that was taking place.
The violence occurring in Iraq is orchestrated by the remnants of Saddam Hussein, by Arab mercenaries, al-Qaeda and others, who are not interested in a secular, peaceful, and democratic Iraq. They want to impose their rule, their views of Islam, and their views of governance on Iraq like they once did successfully in Afghanistan during the Taliban period, until they were overthrown by force. So that is the challenge in Iraq today: either democratic and secular forces prevail, or the extremists, led by al-Qaeda and others, prevail. What is our choice?
But how do you think that democratic and secular forces can actually prevail under conditions of military occupation by a foreign country?
Well, madam, if there were not those conditions, a foreign military occupation, if the Americans were to listen to those who are calling for their withdrawal…
I didn't call for their withdrawal.
No, no, I am sorry, to those who call for their withdrawal, to end foreign occupation, I guarantee you the remnants of Saddam Hussein, al-Qaeda, Zarqawi take over. So that is the dilemma.
But that is a separate matter. One can say that under conditions of American military occupation radical Islamist forces may be prevented from coming into power and that it is not possible for secular, democratic forces to take root as long as the occupation continues. Both these things can be true.
Well, some people seem to view the conflict in Iraq as one caused only by the US intervention. Before the US intervention it was Saddam Hussein and his wars of aggression against his neighbors, his use of chemical and biological weapons, and his slaughter of Iraqis and Kurds. After Saddam Hussein, al-Qaeda and other extremist elements that were operating in Afghanistan, who had been ousted in Afghanistan, flocked to Iraq to carry out their battle there. The international community must side with the secular, moderate forces who have no weapons at their disposal, who are not fanatics, whose only tool of exercising their power is through the ballot box -- and this is what they have done, they have gone to the ballot box, they have voted in several elections in Iraq, while the insurgents are carrying weapons, while the insurgents and others have blown up civilians. That is their agenda.
So I would find it extremely dangerous, the proposition that the US or the coalition should vacate Iraq. They should, I also agree there should be a timetable, there should be a phased withdrawal, but in a very prudent manner so that the new, trained security forces and police in Iraq can take over.


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Once you are pregnant you can't wait to know when to expect your baby bundle of joy! Newly expecting parents look forward to finding out their EDD, expected due date, and often times like to try and figure out what that date might be before they visit the doctor. Sometimes, too, the EDD can help support or contradict the EDD that is based on the baby's first ultrasound.
Calculating EDD
In order to calculate your EDD you must know the first day of your last period. Keep in mind, too, that the calculations used are based on women with a 28 day cycle. If you have a shorter or longer cycle then you should keep track of that as it will affect your baby's due date. The following formulas are quite commonly used to determine an estimated due date and both will give you the due date of your baby!
First day of your last period + 7 days – 3 months = due date
For example, if the first day of your last period was March 3 then your due date would be December 11, give or take a day or two!
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So, if the first day of your last menstrual period is March 3 then you add 281 days to that and the end day is your due date! You can count up 281 days on the calendar from the first day of your last period to get the result.
Of course, if math isn't your strong suit or you simply prefer for someone else to do all the work then consider using a due date calculator on the web. You include the first day of your last period, your average cycle length, and luteal phase, and your estimated due date will be provided to you!
If you know the date you conceived and are 100% positive then all you need to do is add the days of an average pregnancy to the date of conception. That is 267 days or 38 weeks.
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Europe Travel Plans - Paris / Brussels / Amsterdam
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Today I will leave Paris to Amsterdam - The Netherlands via Brussels - Belgium. Trip map click here. (more than 525km, 7 - 8 hours)
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At Brussels, I'll plan to visit The Atomium.
The Atomium is a monument in Brussels, originally built for Expo '58, the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. Designed by André Waterkeyn, it stands 102-metres (335 ft) tall. It has nine steel spheres connected so that the whole forms the shape of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times.
Tubes connect the spheres along the 12 edges of the cube and all eight vertices to the centre. They enclose escalators connecting the spheres containing exhibit halls and other public spaces. The top sphere provides a panoramic view of Brussels. Each sphere is 18 metres in diameter. Three spheres are currently (2008) closed to visitors, others can be reached easily by escalators. The vertical vertex contains a lift which was very fast and advanced at the time of building (the speed is 5 m/s).
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Lance Corporal Tim Jones and friend Andre Nasr founded Military Specific Fitness (MSF) earlier this year.
Lance Corporal Jones is also a fully qualified personal trainer and after fighting back to full fitness decided to start the new group.
The MSF takes many of its core training methods from the British Military, with the group focusing more on teamwork and motivation rather than fancy technology.
In a recent launch display in Gerrards Cross Common, Help for Heroes representatives joined the group in showing what they could do.
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Scuba diving a reality for disabled thanks to Imagine Diving
- Written by Claudia Parker
Families of children and adults with special needs participated in a candlelight bowling fundraiser in Tinley Park Saturday, hoping to pick up more than a spare.
Attendees dove into their pockets to keep scuba students diving in more than just their dreams. Imagine Diving is making scuba a reality for the disabled with the help of Evergreen Park High School donating the use of its pool.
Bob Hemedinger, president of Imagine Diving started this non-profit organization.
"When my niece, disabled at the age of nine and unable to walk since, expressed an interest in scuba after hearing about my dives, it was easy enough to say 'why not?'" he said.
The program was launched after Hemedinger gained seven-years experience volunteering for another organization. The impact on the families they serve was expressed with gratitude.
Hickory Hills' Diana Damme's seventeen-year-old son, Johnny, started diving at the age of 14. Johnny has Down Syndrome but his activities are not limited. Johnny's been in the Special Olympics program through the Oak Lawn Park District for several years. He enticed his 20-year-old sister, Danielle, to learn scuba. Before the two of them became diving partners, Johnny was the only one in his family that could do it. The half-moon sized smile on his face spoke volumes as he listened to his mother, Diana, speaking about his diving abilities.
Palos Hills' Geana Barnard came to learn about the program during hydrotherapy for her 32-year-old son, Ryan Johnson. He suffered a traumatic brain injury September of 2010 during a car accident. The severity of his injuries left his right side paralyzed. Bernard had 16 years experience diving but left that and her career behind to devote fulltime care to Johnson.
"Imagine Diving has helped our family on multiple levels," she said. "Ryan can't move his right side but when he's diving, both sides function. It's miraculous!"
Johnson's eyes had a sparkle as he talked about the best part about diving for him.
"It's the best way to relax," he said. "I want others to discover scuba and know there isn't anything you can't do."
Evergreen Park's Tom Luebke was at the event with his 12-year-old son, Sam, who's cognitively and physically disabled. Sam has been diving since January.
"Sam's physical disabilities cause his him to lose stability but being in the water causes him to forget," Tom said.
Tom described a recent dive he and Sam took at Haigh Quarry in Kankakee. Excitedly, Tom said: "At one point, I looked over at Sam and he was surrounded by nearly a hundred fish."
He then used his hands to measure a foot saying, "This big!"
Imagine Diving also offers support to veterans.
Chicago Ridge's Emily Griffith's son, Chris LeClair is a sergeant in the Marine Corps.
After a tour in Afghanistan he experienced Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
"The saddest part as a mom was knowing my son needed help and not knowing how to reach him emotionally," Emily said. "The water brought Chris healing, it was his therapy."
The program's emphasis is on bringing families together.
"Families of the disabled go through enough of being told what they can't do," Hemedinger said. "It's inspirational to see the effort and determination when we show them what they can do."
To learn more about the program, visit imaginediving.org.


text: Show Hide image UK 9 October 2014 Leader: British politics is now a war of the weak The overall impression is of an age of big problems, small ideas and diminished political leaders. Sign up to the Staggers Morning Call email * Print HTML Perhaps at no point since 1974 have both main political parties approached a general election in such a state of weakness. As much as the Conservatives draw comfort from Ed Miliband's poor leadership ratings, the conspiratorial mutterings about his leadership and his disappointing conference speech in Manchester (an exercise in brinkmanship that did not come off), they are no closer to becoming again the natural party of government. The main effect of the party conference season has been to confirm that the 2015 election will amount to a war of the weak. Even before Ed Miliband had forgotten to mention the Budget deficit in his speech, polls suggested that Labour had done far too little to assuage anxieties about its economic competence. While David Cameron gave an astute and burnished speech to end his conference on a high – significantly, he read it from a lectern, unlike Mr Miliband, who spoke broadly from memory – the Conservatives are turning right in an attempt to bolster their core vote and head off the threat from Ukip. Polls have repeatedly shown that as much as 40 per cent of the electorate would never consider voting Tory. As for the Liberal Democrats, whose conference finished in Glasgow on 8 October, Nick Clegg's party's identity crisis remains unresolved. Its poll ratings – as low as 6 per cent now – show no sign of an upswing. "Being in the centre could mean being seen as mainstream and common-sense," the Labour pollster James Morris wrote in a widely noticed blog on newstatesman.com. "For the Lib Dems, it means they are seen as a pointless mush." Harsh, perhaps, but the polls would suggest that many agree with him. The overall impression is of an age of big problems, small ideas and diminished political leaders. However, it is possible to detect an emerging consensus on the need for greater infrastructure investment and housebuilding; further devolution, to both Scotland and the English regions; and for a higher minimum wage to reduce what the state spends on subsidising low pay. But there is consensus of a less welcome kind: that further austerity could be confined to aspects of society unpopular in the parties. In truth, the next government will not be able to remove the deficit merely by increasing taxes on the wealthiest, or by cutting benefits further for the poor and not raising taxes. What is required, above all else, is clear-headed honesty about the deficit, pragmatism and a national plan for reconstruction and renewal. Alas, none of the parties is offering any such thing. One of the dominant themes of 2014 has been the continued fracturing of our politics and the weakness of the British state. It was evident in Ukip becoming the first party from outside the Labour-Tory duopoly to win a national election since 1910. It was evident, too, in the energising independence campaign in Scotland and the remarkable surge in Scottish National Party membership, which has quadrupled to 100,000 since 18 September. British politics today is not about two, three or even four parties: add in the Greens, now tying with the Lib Dems in many polls, and Plaid Cymru in Wales, and the 2015 election will be as far from a two-party choice as is possible, with different dynamics in most seats. The psephologists' idea of a "uniform swing" has never seemed more archaic. Market capitalism desires choice in all walks of life, and now belatedly we have it in our politics, too. The centre cannot hold. The nation state is fragmenting. The snag is that we have a Westminster electoral system designed for the two-party age. Which could mean that an "alliance of the defeated" – a Labour Party that finished second in the popular vote and a Liberal Democrat party fourth – is the only viable coalition after 2015. The alternative is a minority government that might last as long as the Wilson government that was formed in March 1974 (a second general election in October that year resulted in a three-seat majority for Labour). Yet would such a weakened alliance be capable of delivering the wide-ranging economic, social and constitutional reform that the United Kingdom urgently requires? › The Returning Officer: Colchester II Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 08 October 2014 issue of the New Statesman, Grayson Perry guest edit More Related articles The NS Podcast #230: It's (New) Party Time Labour MP Sarah Champion resigns over grooming gang piece in The Sun The deafening killer - why noise will be the next great pollution scandal Subscription offer 12 issues for £12 + FREE book LEARN MORE Close This week's magazine


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Take on part Billy Joel spoof and two parts dreadful stock photo searches, mash it together and you'll have a tune mocking every cliché there is. It could have used a few more women laughing at salad, and perhaps some women struggling drinking water, but you'll still want to blow up the nearest stock photo library after watching this. Creatives hate being forced to use stock, so here's the tune you can hum when you have to!
Note, we didn't own an iPad probably started this Billy Joel song parody meme, making us all want to join in. "We didn't stab each other, just collected rubbers". Har har!
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It's great to be home again in Stillwater. Where have I been these past three years? I was trapped in the Land of Oz, a.k.a. Florida.
Three years ago I became ill and had what you could call a "near death experience." I am grateful to have come through it with a new sense of joy, forgiveness and gratitude. Moving to Florida seemed like a good idea then to reconnect with my family for a while. The intent was noble, but I soon found myself trapped in a humid land of palm trees, alligators and giant insects.
Let's start with the bugs. The Florida 'huntsman spider' is the size of my hand. Yes, my entire hand, including outstretched fingers. Even my cats ran from them they were so big. (I will never complain about a Minnesota wood tick ever again) There was a huge insect in my apartment walkway that looked like a rhinoceros. And yes, it was called "a rhinoceros beetle. So clever, those Floridians. Everyday I saw some new insect I had never seen before. It was extraordinary.
Then there was the heat. The heat melted my car key one summer. Not to liquid, but enough to make it very soft so when I tried to unlock my car, the key broke off in the door. I still can't get it out.
It wasn't all bad down there. The beach was wonderful. I got to swim with sea turtles and stingrays and spent one memorable afternoon saving stranded moon jellies from the sand. (Yes, the crazy pagan was putting these sublime creatures back in the water where they belonged, much to the dismay of all the surrounding tourists) And, of course, it was wonderful to spend time with my family. I also made some wonderful new friends down there.
Even so, the call to return to Minnesota was powerful. I'd see pelicans flying in formation over the surf and wish they were Canada geese. I'd see palm trees outlined against a brilliant sunset and wish they were pine trees laden with snow. Coming home was easy — getting here was another matter entirely.
The economy is horrific in Brevard County, so finding steady work to fund the move back was difficult. If I had sewing skills I could've easily found work repairing Confederate flags – they were everywhere down there. Thanks to some very kind and generous friends, however, the trip was funded. I loaded up a UHaul, my car and my two cats and off we went.
I came in to Minnesota off of Interstate 94. I saw the St. Croix River and started crying. For three years I waited to see that view again. I spent the next few days playing in the snow and getting acclimated to the north. I took a long walk through downtown Stillwater and looked at the Lift Bridge like a tourist.
There have been some changes in my beloved Stillwater while I was gone. Some shops are gone or re-located. Some friends have moved and buildings that were new when I left are now occupied and an accepted part of the landscape. And what the heck happened to Lumberjack Days?
One thing remains constant, though, and that's the wonderful sense of community, of belonging to someplace special. Stillwater continues to be the enchanting, historical, magical place I remembered. The people who live here are the same wonderful, joyful, community-driven folks proud of this town and proud to live here.
Stillwater is special. And what privilege and joy it is to call this place home once again. My broom is firmly placed on Minnesota soil. And it's never leaving ever again.
Shirley De La Torre, a.k.a. the good witch of North Hill, was an occasional contributor to the Gazette prior to her move to Florida.


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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now a closer look at efforts to cap the well and at that computer model we just saw showing how far the oil may flow.
Donald Van Nieuwenhuise is professor of petroleum geoscience at the University of Houston. He spent 20 years in the oil business. And we hope to be joined by Nancy Kinner. She's an environmental engineer and co-director of the Coastal Response Research Center at the University of New Hampshire.
First to Donald Van Nieuwenhuise.
How — first of all, tell us, how difficult is this latest cut-and-cap effort?
DONALD VAN NIEUWENHUISE, geologist, University of Houston: Well, the overall effort, of course, the cutting part of this effort, they had some difficulty. And thank goodness they were able to shear off and slightly plane down part of the rough cut, so that they can get a good seal.
But this particular effort should work much better than the containment effort did, because they're going to be able to actually get a slight seal on to the lower marine riser package. And, in the past, they just had a containment dome that was open up to the sea.
And, in this case, they will actually have at least a bit of a seal to try to keep most of the water out. And the biggest issue that they have to worry about right now are the ice crystals that could clog up the pipe.
JUDY WOODRUFF: So, what determines whether this works or not? What's the key here?
DONALD VAN NIEUWENHUISE: The key will be if they're able to successfully position it over top the blowout.
As you might imagine, there's a significant amount of pleasure and flow coming out of that wellhead. And they will need to position this capping device on top of that lower marine riser package. And they will need to stabilize it and clamp it down on to it.
And I think it's an advantage that they can clamp on to this lower marine riser package, because it will help hold the — if you will, it's kind of like an upside-down teacup. It will help hold that teacup up — upside down and in place, so that it can capture most of the oil.
JUDY WOODRUFF: So, at this point, Professor, how confident are you that this looks like it's going to work?
DONALD VAN NIEUWENHUISE: Well, they did have a bit of luck by being able to cut the pipe. And I'm hopeful that they will be able to do it. This has never been done at this depth before, so every step is another experiment essentially.
And I think it's important to realize that, you know, they're trying to do everything that they can do, and that this particular effort, because they will be able to handle some of the issues that caused the ice to form in this particular instance, that they are going to have a lot better shot at it.
And once they get the flow rising through the production pipe, they should be able to produce somewhere between 70 percent and 80 percent initially, and my gut feeling is, is that they ought to be able to engineer it to more like 95 percent of the flow.
JUDY WOODRUFF: So, Don Van Nieuwenhuise, you're saying maybe as much as 95 percent?
DONALD VAN NIEUWENHUISE: That wouldn't be the initial. And that would be my top-end guess on it.
Actually, they're going to have some flow coming out of the cap, and the reason that's actually a good thing is that if, for example, they were producing 105 percent of the oil, they would also be drawing water into the system, which could then cause the risk of having ice formation from the gas clathrates that they call them.
JUDY WOODRUFF: If this works, can this hold for the two months or however long it takes until the relief wells are finished?
DONALD VAN NIEUWENHUISE: I think there's a good chance that it will.
And one of the problems they could have is, as the pressure is extremely great down at the reservoir — and I know they have been producing some sand — you could have sand that could actually abrade the pipe itself. But, based on what we have seen so far, it didn't abrade the liner or the — excuse me — the riser where that was crimped.
And, consequently, I don't think they're producing that much sand. So, this should hold out for the two months that they need.
JUDY WOODRUFF: All right, I want to turn now to Nancy Kinner at the University of New Hampshire.
I want to ask you, Professor Kinner, about this new model we showed a few minutes ago from the Center for Atmospheric — National Center for Atmospheric Research, essentially showing how a liquid in the Gulf of Mexico with these currents could reach — go around Florida and reach the Atlantic Ocean by the summer.
How realistic is that scenario?
NANCY KINNER, Co-Director, Coastal Response Research Center at the University of New Hampshire: Well, I think you have to look at the model itself and understand a couple of caveats, a couple of things about it.
One thing, as you pointed out, this is just a model looking at if we put a dye, something that actually just moves with the water, and doesn't degrade at all, where it would go over time.
And that's not really how the oil will behave. So, what this model does is, it looks at the oil in the top about 60 feet or so of the water column. And it basically does — looks at a set of scenarios about where that water might move.
Now, over those kinds of time periods, many, many days, the oil actually what we call weathers, which means that the oil changes in character. So, some of it evaporates. Some of it actually breaks down in the light. Some of it actually biodegrades. Bacteria over the longer term like that, over many days to weeks, actually start breaking the oil down.
And what happens is — that is very different from what was modeled — is that the oil actually becomes stickier and starts to form what we call tar balls. And you have seen some of those in the pictures of the Gulf.
There are anywhere from very, very tiny, small balls that you could barely see up to about the size of your thumbnail. And so they will travel very differently, as you can imagine, than would just the water itself. So, that's one thing that we have to keep in mind.
And the second thing is that, when you looked at — at the visual of the model, remember that the color tells you something about the dilution of what's happening. And, so, this model is basically — when you see those kind of — those yellow, yellowish hues or colors, those are fairly low concentrations of the oil.
So, there — those are two very important things to keep in mind.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And I just want to say, you know, for one, just to look at that picture, it could be fairly alarming, and we should say that the people…
NANCY KINNER: Right.
JUDY WOODRUFF: … who — who put this out at the National Center for Atmospheric Research were careful themselves to say that this is just a scenario, that they don't — that they're not saying necessarily that this is what would happen to the oil.
But, based on what you said, could the oil end up any — doing anything like what you see in that — form or that scenario they put together?
NANCY KINNER: Well, I think that it — one has to understand that there's a lot of oil coming out of the well, and that it is quite likely that some small amount of that oil will get out into the Atlantic Ocean. I mean, I think most — most scientists think that that is going to happen.
However, it probably isn't going to be large quantities of oil and it certainly isn't going to be large slicks of oil. In fact, the oil, as it keeps moving, that which is on — in the surface water, that oil starts to, as I mentioned, kind of break up and become what we call streamers or — and then ultimately these tar balls.
So, I think it is quite likely that some small percentage of the oil will get out into the Atlantic. If the oil flow stops, can be stopped down, then I think it will be less and less oil going out there.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Well, we will have many more days to think about that, but it's helpful to take a look at it right now.
Nancy Kinner, we thank you.
NANCY KINNER: Thank you.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And Don Van Nieuwenhuise — we thank you both for talking with us.
NANCY KINNER: Thanks very much.
DONALD VAN NIEUWENHUISE: Thank you.


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Students step up and Government backs them
Hon Paula Bennett
Minister for Social Development, Employment & Youth Affairs
24 February 2011
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Students step up and Government backs them
A volunteer army of Christchurch students is stepping up to help people in Christchurch and we're backing them with funding says Social Development Minister Paula Bennett.
"Just as they did after last September's earthquake, students led by Sam Johnson are swinging into action and it's truly humbling to see," says Paula Bennett.
Funding of $20,000 has been approved for the student clean up.
The money will help pay for equipment like wheelbarrows and shovels so they can continue with cleaning up liquefaction, clearing driveways and helping residents with basic labouring work.
"I met with Sam and his team last year when we helped out with $5,000 for equipment and pizzas to keep them going, this time the work is even harder and we need them even more," says Ms Bennett.
"What we saw last time round was a group of genuine, willing, hard-working students who gave locals practical help as well as a real morale boost," says Ms Bennett.
"Residents were just so appreciative of the help and were so amazed at the willingness young people showed to get stuck in to what is hard work to assist others," says Ms Bennett.
The students are organising themselves through social networking site Facebook: http://www.facebookcom/StudentVolunteerArmy


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The visions of Christ granted to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (virgin and religious) led to the Church's formal veneration of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Margaret Mary was born in 1647; her childhood in eastern France was unhappy because of family problems and illness. After briefly considering marriage, she entered the Order of Visitation Sisters at the age of twenty-four. She was considered a simple and undistinguished nun. She was humble and patient and open to criticism and correction, but her superiors considered her clumsy and somewhat slow.
Though Margaret Mary had difficulty meditating in the formal way expected of the sisters in her order, on December 27, 1674, Margaret Mary experienced an apparition of Christ. Jesus showed her His Sacred Heart — a symbol of His often rejected love for humanity — and asked her to promote devotion to His Sacred Heart through frequent Communion and an hour of prayer each Thursday night (in memory of His agony in Gethsemane).
Christ appeared to Margaret Mary on four separate occasions. When others learned of her visions of Christ, they accused her of delusions or deliberate fraud. However, her Jesuit confessor, St. Claude de la Colombière, believed, supported, and encouraged her.
Margaret Mary died in 1690. Her gentleness and patience convinced many people of the genuineness of the apparitions. The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was eventually established in 1856.
Other Saints We Remember Today
St. Hedwig (1243), Widow, Religious
St. Gerard Majella (1755), Religious, patron of Expectant Mothers
St. Gall (635), Priest, Religious


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All good things come to an end
Well my trip has come to an end and I'm back to life in Ireland again. What a great year with so many experiences. From waiting tables in Perth, to road trips in the outback, the wilderness of tasmania, new years fireworks on Sydney harbour, festivaling it at the Big day out in Auckland, learning Spanish in Santiago, enjoying a futbol game in Buenos Aires, feeling the mist from Iguazu falls, carnivalling it in Oruru, Bolivia, teaching kids in Peru and finaly the 3 day journey to the hidden city Macchu Picchu.
Met some great people along the way, so many went out of their way to make the trip unforgettable. Thanks to Diana and Kahina for getting me through those waitressing shifts, to all at KPMG Perth for making me feel so welcome for my time there, to Brigid for a great christmas Palm Beach, to Tobbes, Rosie & Aoife for a inviting me to stay at their place in lovely Mudgee, to Darren & Pat in Sydney thanks for the nights out on the town in Sydney, to Pat & Margaret McMillan for their kindness and hospitiality in Sydney, to Peter in Auckland thanks for a great week in the north island, to Anna and Elitta for being such fun in Boliva, to Melissa for being such a good sport during the inca trail (despite having no luggage), to Pablo for being my tour guide in Lima.
I'm sure there will be more travel in the future, there still so many places to see but will be enjoying my own country for the next while, theres no place like home.
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text: Culture 15 March 2012 Leaving Alexandria: a Memoir of Faith and Doubt The Church's loss is the world's gain. Sign up for our weekly email * The Church's loss is the world's gain. There are not many brave enough to take the risk of starting a new life at the age of 66. When Richard Holloway resigned as bishop of Edinburgh in 2000, he was turning his back on an institution that had shaped him since he was 14, when he left his home in a small town in the west of Scotland called Alexandria, for Kelham Hall, an Anglican theological seminary in the Midlands that trained boys from impoverished backgrounds for life in holy orders. The decision he made to quit the Church was the result of a lifetime of following the path of courageous doubt. Welcoming gay people to his church, he came up against the morbid preoccupation with sexuality that has tainted Christianity ever since Paul invented the religion from the Jewish charismatic movement that had grown up around Jesus and Augustine interpreted the biblical myth of the Fall as having to do with the sexual origins of sin. When he heard of the wretched fudges that were being made with those in the Church who would not deal with women priests, Holloway burst out, "Oh, the miserable buggers! The mean-minded wee sods!" In an exchange he had with the archbishop of south-east Asia in the lavatory at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park, during a meeting of Anglican primates when he was still bishop of Edinburgh, Holloway was accused of filling hell with homosexuals because he was giving them permission to commit a sin that damned them to eternal punishment. "I resisted the impulse to deck him," Holloway writes, "and left him to go on pissing his wormwood and gall into the Queen's urinal."Amen to that While Holloway's response to religious bigotry has been admirably forthright, his thinking on religion itself is searching and subtle to the last degree. His life has taught him that the ideas of belief and unbelief in terms of which religion is promoted and contested are not to be taken on trust: The fundamental difficulty is that all religious systems and the claims they make for themselves are as fragile - and sometimes as beautiful - as the floating villages of the South China Sea. The word faith is the giveaway. The opposite of faith is not doubt, it is certainty. The adamant conviction of believers - and unbelievers - is not what it seems to be. Citing the writer and psychotherapist Adam Phillips, Holloway sees certainty as a form of self-medication against the disturbance of thought. "Supreme conviction is a self-cure," Phillips writes, "for an infestation of doubts." A radical version of agnosticism - Holloway's preferred position - means living with doubt. "Strictly speaking, agnosticism should not be described as an hypothesis, because it is not so much positing an answer but learning to live without one." Holloway's objection to religion is not to the beliefs it involves - unlike evangelical rationalists, he is happy to leave people believing whatever they like as long as they can't inflict their faith on others. But he rightly rejects the claims of religious institutions to define and possess the truth: "Religions may begin as vehicles of longing for mysteries beyond description but they end up claiming exclusive prescriptive rights to them." If any specific event led to Holloway's departure from the Church, it may have been his book Godless Morality (1999), which sparked sharp condemnation from the then archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey. Whether he would have stayed if the Church had been less closed-minded is doubtful. The view he has reached of religion as a body of myths has been articulated by a number of Christian thinkers and forms part of a theological debate that mirrors controversies about realism and relativism in the philosophy of science. But Holloway's inquiring mind was never going to be boxed into any orthodoxy and it was inevitable that he would eventually make the break. Since he did, he has been active in many fields and has produced a stream of books, including a penetrating inquiry into the nature of evil, Between the Monster and the Saint (2008). The Church's loss has been the world's gain. No one reading this arrestingly candid memoir can doubt that Holloway's life has been driven by an authentic religious quest. Yet, all along, he had what he describes as "that wee man" - his reflective, questioning alter ego - perched on his shoulder. For many years, he seems to have felt that he simply wasn't up to the vocation he had undertaken. It was during years spent in Africa in the late 1950s, working as secretary to the newly appointed bishop of Accra, that he came to realise "what a disappointment I must be to God". At the time, he writes, it never occurred to him that he might end up in the priesthood. He tells in humorous and touching detail of his early sexual experiences and resulting guilt and the enduring division he felt between his profession as a priest and his needs and desires as a ordinary human being. Describing one of several spells in the US (where he met his wife), he recalls serving as rector in an elegant part of Boston, where he "got used to gay couples coming to see me to discuss their flagging sex lives, though I doubt if I was ever much help at restoring their early ardour for one another". Holloway mocks an experiment in speaking with tongues he tried during a period of spiritual emptiness, which resulted in him thinking for a time that he might be speaking in Mandarin - a theory he tested when, after practising his new-found fluency on a train back to Edinburgh, he unleashed a burst of the strange language on to a Chinese-looking woman, who fled through the station exit on to Waverley Bridge and off into the city. What he calls his "Janus-headed mind" and an unsparing sense of the absurd gave him a sense of self-division through all his life in the Church. Leaving Alexandria is a profound, personal investigation of the virtues and flaws of religion and the most stirring autobiography I have read in a great many years. It is also a meditation on the nature of one's own identity. At the end of the book, when he considers what may be the most important lesson he has learned from his life, Holloway mounts a more fundamental challenge to Christianity than any that has been posed by the so-called new atheists. Reflecting on his past during the hill walks he has always loved, he has come to see that the belief that we author our lives through our choices - which is central in Christianity in the form of the idea of free will and reappears in liberal humanism as the notion of personal autonomy - is an illusion. A friend working on ancient Norse gave Holloway the clue in an essay she sent him on the metaphor of weaving in thinking about human life: "Norse mythology showed me that the way we act does not so much make us as reveal us; our response to circumstance shows us not what we want to be but what we actually are. I was never constituted to be a saint. I had just fallen among saints by accident." John Gray is the New Statesman's lead book reviewer. His book "The Immortalisation Commission: the Strange Quest to Cheat Death" has recently been published in paperback (Penguin, £9.99) John Gray is the New Statesman's lead book reviewer. His latest book is The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom. Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 12 March 2012 issue of the New Statesman, The weaker sex More


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Discussion in 'Sonic the Hedgehog' started by darklink7701, Nov 27, 2012.
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Waking up to see this was really cool, because you're really funny and also cool and I was really looking forward to seeing you again
Seriously, what the fuck is your problem with me? Is it something I did when I was like 13? 16? Some sort of terrible thing that I've completely forgotten about that ruined your life forever? It was really cool to come back to you being like 'lol that stupid bitch is back' and Omega googling my username just so he could find something stupid to make fun of me for. I considered just joining the boards as a completely new user because I knew that was exactly what was going to happen, it was what happened before when I tried to come back, and it was the reason I was so fucking neurotic for the brief time I was back because I didn't know why you guys had a problem with me.
And I know that your response is just going to be some standard 'lol butthurt' thing but holy shit, you're a raging asshole. I can't wait for you and Omega to be dicks after I post this, for me to try and pretend like it's not seriously fucking with me, and for me to leave the board, again, within the week.
So thanks, darklink. You're really cool and edgy and I want to be just like you when I turn 19.
You're taking this way too seriously, Slashy. DL's a dick. Omega's a dick. Everyone's a dick here, even I am, which I'm sure is a big surprise to you all. They're doing this because they know you'll bite. You're easy to troll. Point is, you need to chill out and you shouldn't leave, because then you just prove them right. It's an internet forum for fuck's sake.
But hey, you live in America too. Go murder them or something, I'm like a couple countries and an ocean away, can't be bothered.
And here I was thinking it was something more personal and less stupid.
boy do i have egg on my face
I appreciate SlashPrower because...
*fart noises*
Hey, at least you can't say that you get preferential treatment just because you have a vagina.
We here at IGN like to go against the stereotype of male users white-knighting female ones, just because they have a raging hard-on and blue balls from years of social isolation from the other gender. Partially because we actually have lives and girlfriends, partially because we're assholes and don't give a fuck. We proudly and honestly say "FUCK YOU", because we truly value you as an equal. This way, you can genuinely feel like one of so there's no need for artificial emancipation.
omega is actually my alt
if it makes you feel any better you're about as likable as a member of nerv
Hey now Toji was pretty okay
Please keep all srs business to a minimum on the Sonic Board.
now grills allowed
I thought Slash was 19 or 20 or something. Wat.
I'm 18, actually. I'm turning 19 in 5 months.
slash is a girl?
~ T h e D i l l o ~
No she's a grill.
You're a soiled old whore, past your prime.
Profile says male so Slash is a dude
The profile never lies...
You forgot the part where at least half of us are gay.
given the chance, we would all probably partake in a gay orgy together
^lol yeah
dl is a guy?
I would gladly fuck all of you and I do mean fuck and I do mean all of you.
Except Bahmo, he's pretty gross.
You do know that Dillo's going to make you wear the pony suit, right?
And I'm completely fine with that.
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Please don't tell me you guys sleep in MLP pajamas
only sleep?
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Dress for the job you want not the job you have and Dillo obviously wants to be a professional pony.


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Oh wow look at all the white knights on this thread. Don't hit if you don't want hit back. And yes, I understand you don't hit girls but she decided to hit a very large dude. Bad idea.
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Everyone thinks you have to be a fireman or soldier to be a tough guy. Try the free market out sometime as a business owner. Sharks patrol these waters...
Cardales life has turned into a cheesy after school special.
His assistants are almost all west coast guys. http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2015/01/meet_the_assistants_jim_harbau.html#0
i save all my down votes for that douche.
Here is a video I put together. I think it should help anyone going through tough times.
Great song and remix, my friend. Go to bed and move forward.
1. Braxton and JT
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They all play a role
I don't get the moral outrage over this stuff.
Excellent edit man.
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MS strips nerves of a protective fatty sheath called myelin, impairing their ability to transmit signals.
Researchers at Cambridge and Harvard Universities have discovered a gene called Olig 1 can stimulate the re-growth of myelin.
It is hoped the Science study may eventually lead to new treatments.
The relapsing-remitting form of the disease follows a characteristic pattern of periods of deterioration followed by partial recovery.
During remissions, damaged nerves in the brain and spinal cord become recovered with myelin.
The latest research has shown that Olig 1, previously thought to aid the development of certain brain cells, jump-starts this process.
A close cousin of the gene, Olig 2, was thought to play a key role in the production of myelin-producing cells called oligodendrocytes during the development of the foetus.
However, the role of Olig 1 has been less clear.
Antibody clues
The researchers examined the role of both genes by using antibodies to highlight the location within brain cells of embryonic and adult mice of the proteins that Olig 1 and 2 produce.
In embryonic cells proteins produced by both genes were found in the cells' central powerhouse, the nucleus, suggesting a key role for both genes in the production of myelin-producing cells.
However, in adult cells, Olig 1 had migrated to the cytoplasm outside the nucleus, where there are no genes to regulate.
But when the scentists looked at adult cells from rodents with MS-type symptoms they found Olig 1 was back in the nucleus.
Effectively, the damaged cells had reverted to a foetal state in which Olig 1 was back at the centre of the action, and apparenty able to oversee renewed production of oligodendrocytes.
The researchers found that mice bred without Olig 1 were unable to repair demyelinated cells.
Human samples
They went on to examine the localtion of Olig 1 in samples taken from human MS patients.
In healthy areas of the brain the gene appeared inactive, but it was active in damaged regions.
Researcher Dr Robin Franklin said: "This suggests that the Olig 1's function has been shaped by evolution to repair the brain in areas where the insulating layer of myelin has been depleted through disease."
While the cycle of damage and repair can go on for many years in MS patients, eventually the system wears down, and in most people the disease progresses with fewer remissions.
Dr Charles Stiles, from Harvard's Dana-Farber Institute, said: "Perhaps the signal that calls Olig 1 into service becomes weaker.
"Although this finding will not yield direct results in terms of finding treatment for MS we are confident that it gives new insight and direction for research."
Mike O'Donovan, chief executive of the Multiple Sclerosis Society, said: "There is increasing optimism that a way can be found of repairing the damage caused in MS.
"A great deal of research effort, including work we fund, is now being focused on it.
"This finding is an encouraging scientific step along a road which will hopefully lead to therapies."
Chris Jones, chief executive of the MS Trust, agreed that the study was a significant step forward.
"This will bring us a step closer to appreciating the remyelination process and the reasons why there is a failure to repair myelin in people with MS.
"It's early days, but the signs are positive."
Christine Purdy, of the MS International Federation, said: "For people with MS, the work gives great hope that this will contribute significantly to the much-desired therapeutic breakthroughs."


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Blackburn were comfortable winners of this year's Charity Challenge Snooker Match against Burnley.
The match, held at Blackburn's Longshaw Sports And Social Club attracted a large crowd who were not disappointed.
The opener was a somewhat nervy affair between Ian Harle for Blackburn and Andy Goody representing Burnley.
An out of sorts Harle never really got going and Goody ran out a comfortable winner to put the visitors ahead. Frame 2 saw Craig Steele turn in his usual gutsy performance for Blackburn against the vastly experienced Eric Catlow.
An early run of 30 gave Steele the advantage and Catlow couldn't find a way back, eventually going down 54-17.
The next went the way of the home side also as Dave O'Shaughnessy showed occasional flashes of brilliance to defeat Kev Catlow. Frame 4 was another edgy one but Jonny Hannan, playing on his own table, had too much for Burnley's Josh Stevenson and put the home side 3-1 up.
It was the veterans match next and Pete Drane and Ronnie Laycock, combined age 159, put on a super show for an enthralled crowd. It was Blackburn's Drane who nicked it on the black after Ronnie looked the likely winner.
Blackburn youngster, Scott Morris, was up next and despite some early nerves put up a brave show against Darren McKavett.
The Burnley man had the best of the early exchanges but Morris came back well and was looking in control until a safety shot on the brown took a flier of the back cushion and sat up nicely for McKavett to clear and make the score 4-2. The next frame was a nightmare for Blackburn's George Holden who was in total control and clearing up nicely when he went in off the brown.
Opponent Scott Luke held his nerve and cleared the colours to leave the match finely balanced at 4-3. That was the end of the line for Burnley though as Blackburn went on a 5 frame winning run.
First up was Tommy Hannan who pipped Neil McGovern 40-28 and then Blackburn debutante Dion Holcroft overcame his nerves to defeat Matt Kaley 47-18. Next up was another youngster making his debut for Blackburn and what a debut it was.
Tom Whittle took on Burnley's Geoff Hillam and after Hillam broke off he only played one more shot as man of the match Whittle ran in a superb 60 break to clear to brown.
It was a case of like father like son in the next as Tom's dad Lee turned in a stunning performance to win in two scoring visits, runs of 31 and 40 doing the damage. The last frame of the day was Gaz Hampson for Blackburn taking on Paul Atherton in a game that never really took off. Hampson took the frame 55-6 to make the final score Blackburn 9 - Burnley 3.
The real winners though were the East Lancashire Hospice. The event raised £300 for the Hospice thanks to the overwhelming generosity of everyone in attendance. Burnley Snooker League and Blackburn With Darwen Snooker League both donated £50 on the day as did Burnley's Paradise Club and Ighten Leigh Club. Organisers Shaun Pendlebury and Neil McGovern were full of praise for the Bryan St venue.
He said: "I can't thank Longshaw Sports And Social Club enough for the way they have hosted the event. Everything has been perfect. Sean Hammett and his team are to be commended."


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The three-day annual technical festival of ISM Concetto 12 began on Thursday with more than 300 students from technical institutes around the country participating in a host of events.
Associate professor in the department of mining engineering at ISM Dhiraj Kumar said 60 events had been scheduled at different venues of the institute including Upper Ground, Lower Ground, Penmann Auditorium, Golden Jubilee Lecture Theatre, lecture hall complex, management stdies hall besides other department halls and laboratories.
There are students from NIT-Patna, NIT-Adityapur, IIT-Patna, IIT-Kharagpur, BIT-Sindri, BIT-Mesra, KIIT-Orissa, besides ISM participating.
Taking part in the robotics event titled Robo de Mario, Suraj Kumar, a first year student of BTech (environmental engineering), said each team had to let their robots titled Mario cross several hurdles to reach a particular destination.
Shanshank Kumar, a second year student of mining machinery who coordinated Robo De Mario said the contest was aimed at judging the efficiency, speed, strength and time of the robot made by the different teams.
In another event titled Evadobot, 32 teams comprising four students each got their aquatic robots to carry out pre-assigned tasks.
Earlier on Wednesday, general manager of Tata Steel (Jharia division) Sanjay Kumar Singh inaugurated the event in the presence of host of dignitaries including the director of the institute Dr Durga Charan Panigrahi, dean of student welfare Sukumar Laik and others.


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We own over 60 properties and interests in development companies in Oklahoma, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.
The Humphreys Company is also a boutique developer of two mixed-use master planned communities: Carlton Landing and the Wheeler District.


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Today, each of the four major broadcast owners has ownership in a dozen or more cable networks that share programming, promotion and management alongside their broadcast networks. "This shift has profound implications in business terms. [But it also] means that the special status broadcasting has held in First Amendment policy debates - debates like must carry - is disappearing. Broadcasters know this," Sachs said.
Factors that narrowly supported the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision in Turner Broadcasting System v. F.C.C. that affirmed must carry in the analog universe do not apply in the case of dual must carry, Sachs said. "Whatever the long-term viability of the Turner decision, an additional digital must carry requirement during the transition from analog to digital would serve none of the government interests identified in Turner," Sachs explained.
"The fact that a dual must carry requirement would most likely be unconstitutional does not mean, however, that cable operators are not interested in carrying new and innovative digital programming. Cable operators will carry digital programming consumers want, and that certainly includes broadcaster offerings, especially if broadcasters make good on their HDTV promises," Sachs added. "But broadcasting is not the unique service it was even 10 years ago. And it should not be entitled to special treatment under the First Amendment - especially when special treatment shuts out the speech of others."
Sachs encouraged broadcasters to develop new and innovative programming that consumers want, and to shift their focus from an unlikely grant of dual must carry (a legal requirement that cable carry both the analog and digital versions of the same programming) to market-driven negotiations for carriage. The cable industry already has committed to carrying broadcasters' primary signal - whether it be analog or digital - throughout the digital transition.
One obstacle to the digital transition is the lack of compelling programming needed to drive it, Sachs said. "What most commercial broadcasters do not have is a business plan for how to use their digital spectrum," Sachs added. He pointed, however, to a notable exception: the efforts by public broadcasters to develop new digital programming.
Sachs cited public broadcaster plans to telecast at least one formal educational digital service, noting that three out of four public stations plan to offer two or more multicast education services, such as K-12 instructional programming, job training or college courses. Other plans call for expanded children's programming, local public affairs, foreign language programming, or teacher training.
"Public broadcasters have negotiated a voluntary digital carriage agreement with AOL Time Warner, an agreement, I might suggest, that is likely to become a model for other cable/public television alliances," Sachs said. "Why? Because public TV has a vision for using its digital spectrum," Sachs said.
In his remarks, Sachs also noted recent federal court cases in Florida on forced access, in California on franchise transfers, and in the D.C. Circuit on ownership limits that have strengthened cable's First Amendment protections. Additionally, he said, the cable industry recorded another First Amendment victory when the FCC tentatively concluded in January that requiring operators to carry two versions of every broadcast station infringes upon cable First Amendment rights.
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When I started photography, I was very young so it seem so natural for me to just go around taking pictures of everything around me including the people. I still feel like the same is still true.
If you enjoy modeling I want to work with you ... and if you enjoy photography let's tell each other about how we can improve and grow.
Some people are just interested in trees and mountains, I am more interested in shooting people. They are so interesting in the expressions and ways that they dress, stand and change over time. I remember when I did an old woman, who worked at the school. She, was happy, then sad... but I liked to photograph her.
Now, I do weddings and models, and it is just about the same... The bride smiles and then she if filled with tears, Serious for a moment, then drinking too much. But, each is a photograph she will treasure.
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This is a classic border pattern gansey in mid-winter moorland colors. It has shaped armholes and is sized for both men and women.
The pattern originally appeared in Threads Magazine Issue #8 (also published by Taunton Press) as a "design your own" gansey.


text: Dog behavior specialist Cesar Millan lends his name and likeness to this interactive game inspired by National Geographic's Dog Whisperer series. Monitor problematic behavior in a choice of dog breeds and begin a program designed to address the identified issues. Take your digital dog on walks, go rollerblading, and more while keeping on eye on your pet's activity and personality meters. You'll be able to instantly recognize when a dog is calm or active, or when he or she is acting submissive or dominant. By keeping each meter within the targeted green zone, you'll move one step closer to having a well-behaved pet. Address a total of 40 dog "problems" with the help and guidance of Cesar Millan. ~ Scott Alan Marriott, All Game Guide


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DIY Snowman Paper Craft
Make this DIY snowman paper craft for an easy winter craft idea using just glue and a scrapbook.
You don't have to wait for a snow day to build a snowman! Get out the glue and scrapbook paper, we're making a snowman!
This version of Frosty won't melt and it's also a fun and easy holiday paper craft that kids of all ages can help with. For the younger children, cut everything out and have them glue everything together. The older children can help with the cutting. Attach your snowman to a piece of string or jute and use as a holiday gift tag or ornament.
We're making these snowmen tags for holiday gifts, but it's a seasonal craft idea you can use for any present you give this winter. And don't fret! Even if you're not giving it as a gift, you can make a larger one of these snowmen with the kids as a fun winter decoration for the house.
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Mini Black Pom Poms
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2 inch Circle Punch
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Jute or String
Step 1: Punch out four 2-inch white circles. Glue 3 of these circles together to look like a snowman.
Step 2: Glue mini black pom poms, an orange triangle and googly eyes on the first circle to look like a snowman face.
Step 3: Remember that fourth white circle? Use it to sandwich a piece of jute or string between it and one of the other white 2-inch circles that make up your snowman. Do this in the back of the snowman. We recommend the top circle.
Step 4: Glue a piece of red ric rac around the neck of the snowman to look like a scarf.
Step 5: Tie to a gift and write the receivers name on the snowman's body.
If making this a decoration instead, cut your snowmen shapes larger and make sure the adornments are just as proportional!
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the act of taking stoney bartholomew bug outside to the grass on 41st street so he can use his excreteory system. usually performed by Britany or Calvin 3 to 4 times a day
"Calvin, you're on bug duty tonite! I'm cooking. You also had better wash the dishes. I need juice."
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This article was published 28/8/2014 (1087 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A Winnipeg woman died Wednesday morning after being pushed out of a vehicle and then run over, city police say.
The driver faces a number of charges.
Jennie Lynda Lee Graves, 35, was badly injured near the area of St. Anne's Road and St. Mary's Road about 2:30 a.m. She later died in hospital.
Police are considering this the city's 18th homicide of the year.
The driver, Keith Ryan Thompson, 35, faces a number of charges, including criminal negligence causing death and impaired driving causing death.
He remains in custody.
Police say Thompson and Graves were involved in a common-law relationship.
Graves was a passenger in a vehicle -- a truck owned by Popeye's Movers -- when an argument between her and the driver occurred. The argument turned physical, and the driver pushed her out of the moving vehicle, an investigation has revealed.
Police say she was then struck by the rear wheels of the vehicle.
It's alleged the driver continued on for several blocks before stopping. A witness followed the vehicle and later brought the suspect back to the scene.
"The witness was able to bring the suspect back for whatever reason, whether he was in shock at what he had done — we can speculate all we want as to why he continued to drive off and then agreed to go back. But at the end of the day, that's what happened." said Winnipeg Police Service spokesman Const. Eric Hofley.
Contacted this morning, Popeye's owner, Mark Routley, said Thompson was an excellent employee who had worked for the company on and off for five years.
He said Thompson wasn't authorized to use the vehicle on personal time, and this was the first time he had driven the moving truck outside of working hours.
Routley confirmed Thompson has been fired.
"Keith is a great guy and I don't know what happened, I haven't heard all the details. But something tragic happened and it's a sad day for us," Routley said. "He was an excellent employee."


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Douglas County Sheriff's Office looking for information on damaged signs
(East Wenatchee, WA) The Douglas County Sheriff's Office seeking assistance from the public for any information leading to the arrest of any persons suspected of damaging road signs. When persons shoot, steal, destroy, or otherwise deface signs designed to aid motorists and improve traffic safety, it creates a dangerous condition to everyone using public roads. Regulatory and warning signs benefit the public by warning of slide areas, sharp corners, controlled intersections, and many other road condition which could cause serious or even fatal traffic accidents.
In addition, replacing or repairing damaged road signs costs the taxpayers money which is better spent on roadway and engineering improvements. I spoke with Cort Johnson who supervises the Douglas County Sign Shop. He explained that since January of 2012 there have been at least 175 county road signs damaged by vandalism. Using that figure, the cost to replace or repair the signs is almost $14,000. This does not include the time it takes for law enforcement to respond to and try to investigate such incidents.
We implore people not to damage county property designed to help our citizens. Damaging road signs is a crime which could lead to a felony arrest depending on the circumstances. Additional violations could include shooting from a roadway and having a loaded firearm in a motor vehicle. The county has reward money available to anyone who can assist Deputies in apprehending suspects.