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How many of us can honestly say that we would devote our lives to what we believe in most? Stephanie Gray, a 1998 graduate of St. John Brebeuf High School, does just that. She lives to "make abortion unthinkable."
Stephanie grew up in Chilliwack, attended St. Mary's Elementary School, and then SJB. During her growing up years she was exposed to Catholic teaching regarding the sanctity of life both at home and at school. She was a leading member of the Reverence for Life group at St. John Brebeuf and when she went on to pursue higher education, her passion for life didn't diminish. She became president of Lifeline at the University of British Columbia. She had the courage to take an extremely unpopular position against the culture and to stand up for life.
Stephanie holds a Bachelor's Degree in political science from the University of British Columbia and a Certification, with Distinction, in Health Care Ethics, from the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. Her greatest accomplishment, however, is the founding of the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform, an educational pro-life organization, which she co-founded in 2001. She has travelled around the world, speaking to schools and universities, debating abortion advocates and displaying the Genocide Awareness Project. This SJB graduate has met opposition from many but remains steadfast in her belief that through these efforts abortion will one day become unthinkable.


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WOW! Every man and boy alive should read this book. Certainly every father or father to be of a son should read this book. Man so powerful and speaks to my heart so deeply. I'm not a Father yet but I know that when I am I will re-read this and I am more prepared to be so, but not only that, more prepared to live in the world as a Christian man, son, husband, brother, leader, employee, employer... This book is life changing!
How to be a better more intentional male adult. Also more about myself and finding that other men struggle with the same things I do, not some, all. I want to be a man that lives in relationships intentionally in my actions and conversations that build, encourage, teach, and grow those around me and certainly those under me that I'm responsible for.
Can't wait to read Steve's other books and can't thank him enough for this one!
"A Must for Fathers Raising Boys"
This is a great follow up to Farrar's excellent book "Point Man". He gives practical, biblical advice that is needed to all fathers of boys. It really opened my eyes to how the world is pulling at our boys in the wrong direction and how I can correct that.
Everything I have read/listened to by Steve Farrar is excellent and this is no exception!
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I love to laugh and have a good time. Some people say I'm silly, and funny. I'm very sexual and I enjoy exploring and doing new things. I enjoy going out on hikes or fishing trips. I don't go out to do those things often but I love being in the outdoors.
I don't wear makeup, (I'm a tomboy who is getting out of tomboyish ways, somewhat) when I do it's usually mascara to bring out my eyes, I'm huge into cuddling, and a big turn on for me is someone who is a good kisser. Take the reins, grab my hips and show me who's boss haha. I would love to find a relationship or friendship on here but really looking for someone to start a family with, grow old with. Share stories and experiences with doing anything and everything and making new ones ourselves.
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This was the first thing we bought for our little one. After babysitting a young baby & not being able to hear if they were ok I knew we needed a sensor mat to stop me going crazy. We've used it for 14 months both in a Moses basket & cot.
It worked fab in the Moses basket but its hard getting used to turning the alarm off before you take baby out so the alarm did go off after picking baby up but reassuring that it actually works!
In the cot I was unsure it would work as well as the mat is small but I haven't been disappointed! We have had once false alarm when we tilted her mattress due to her having a cold - it is our fault really should have turned it off that night.
It has a sound seek option to reassure you further so you can actually hear the baby breathing. The nightlight isn't really a nightlight - the most you can see is whether the alarm is turned on or off! You can turn the sound of the tick up but you really don't need too! If the batteries go in the portable bit it does flash red which was a shock the first time but you can plug it in the wall & it works fine! The range is ok - we live in a second floor flat & can get it on the first floor but not ground floor. It will do for a flat or small house.
Overall I love this monitor & was really impressed!
I started by watching the series Call the Midwife before I heard about the book. When I realised I needed to get a book for my holidays Call the Midwife was on the top of my list! It is written lovely and although some of the cockney is heard to read (well it is for a non cockney like myself!) it's still a brilliant book. I do however think the series is very like the book. When a film is made about a book there is always a slight variance but with this is pretty much follows the story with a few slight differences. Saying that I still loved the book and have recommended it to more than a few people! I could not put it down and to me that is the sign of a good book! I have gone on to buy the rest of the books to accompany it although I'm yet to read them. It has sparked something inside me that needs to know more!
I love the Baby Bjorn Active Carrier. It has a supportive back panel and is supported in all the right places. My little one loved it but we have moved onto a back carrier now and I do miss it!
It's easy to put on, comfortable to wear and the babies really do love it. The only thing I don't like about it is the fact that they say you can wear the baby facing outwards - this isn't recommended as it's puts pressure on the baby's spine. I always wear my daughter facing in and she did get a bit fed up with this - hence why we moved onto a back carrier.
It's so easily adjusted too! My other half could wear it and then we could swap - all adjusted and swapped within minutes! It's so simple to use and great for walks where you are limited with a pushchair/stroller!
I purchased a second hand Silver Cross Pop after having 2 pushchairs fail me! I have not been disappointed!
Good bits? It has nice high handles! Something my first pushchair failed to have! It has a cup holder - perfect for grabbing a coffee on the go or even putting baby's bottle in (although I have an extra bottle holder too - purchased separately). Nice big shopping basket! I can fit the essentials in without affecting the usage! It's fairly light - I have had lighter but I can easily carry it up 2 flights of stairs with my daughter in to get to our flat. It also has an easy to carry handle so you can pop it over your shoulder when folded as well as an additional side handle. The sun visor saves you having an extra parasol! The rain cover has ventilation holes & very easy to get on and off.
Bad bits? The brakes are awful! The pushchair was in excellent condition when I bought it as it had been used as a second pushchair (and hardly touched). But the brakes still seem to fail! No matter how hard I try I can't get them to work 99% of the time! The sun visor doesn't always work especially in winter when the sun is low! It doesn't fit my boot! But then lets face it I have a Ford KA and there's not many strollers that do fit my boot so we cope! The footmuff isn't the biggest and my daughter's legs are slowly outgrowing it at 14 months!
Overall I love this pushchair and although there are a couple of flaws - they really don't matter! I still love it!
The Petite Star Zia was our first pushchair and we purchased it with the cocoon. When our little one was born she was perfect size for the cocoon and I did love the pushchair.
The one problem we had is having a Ford KA as a car - the boot is small however the Zia fit perfectly into the boot with a small space for shopping! PERFECT! Although there wasn't room for the cocoon but we could cope with this by putting it on the back seat.
First flaw - the raincover does not fit when the cocoon is on! I gave birth in January 2011 - the snow had gone but it was pretty miserable and when it rained we had to put our tiny 5lbs 5 newborn into the stroller to keep her dry! Not very practical as we ended up having to pad it out for her to fit! Only did this twice & then had to stay in when it rained!
Second flaw - the shopping basket is tiny however I wouldn't say it bothered us too much! We coped with it and in the end I was managing to fit raincover, footmuff & a tub of formula in so you can do it!
Third flaw - you can't put any shopping on the handles! This would be ok if you had a large shopping basket but you don't so you are stuck with not having anywhere to put any shopping! Twice it tipped up with my daughter in! Scary and not nice!
Fourth flaw - the handles are low! This comes with having such a compact stroller but I'm only 5ft 5 (ok I do have long arms too) and pushing this all day left me hunching over and left me with terrible back ache!
Other flaws - you can't fit a universal parasol!
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This was my baking project this weekend. I made it for a member of the board of governers at the hospital I work at for her birthday. The administrative assistant for the CEO approached me last week to make this cake. I asked her what flavors she would like and she told me I should decide. I made a tiramisu cake, so I hope the lucky recepient likes coffee.
The cake part itself is Rose's biscuit de savioe baked in two 8 x 2 inch pans, which I then split in half, so I had 4 layers of cake. I used the tiramisu filling and expresso simple syrup recipes from Rose's tiramisu recipe in RHC. ( The only change I made was I added 2 1/2 tsps of gelatin to the filling so that it would be firm enough to slice ).
I used mocha mousseline buttercream to ice the cake and then sprinkled cocoa on top. And yay!!! my tempered chocolate band worked.
She wanted me to write happy birthday on the cake. I hate writing on cakes. So I made a chocolate plaque and tried to write on that. My writing was just as bad. I took one of my antique postcards and cut it out to fit the chocolate plaque. I glued parchment paper to the back of the postcard with white chocolate and then glued that to the chocolate plaque. So all she has to do is take the postcard and parchment paper off and she can eat the chocolate plaque if she wants to. The roses around the bottom of the cake are white chocolate.
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The Winnipeg Goldeyes now share first place in the American Association's North Division after having had sole possession for 52 straight days.
Saturday at Shaw Park the Goldeyes lost 4-3 to the St. Paul Saints, who got the winning run on left-fielder Willie Cabrera's eighth-inning homer, his second solo shot of the night. The streaking Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks have now pulled even with Winnipeg.
Winnipeg (32-21) and St. Paul (24-28) will meet again today at 1:30 p.m. in the final game of their four-game set. Today's meeting will conclude a 12-game home stand in which the Goldeyes are 6-5. Winnipeg's Chris Salamida (2-2, 3.99) and St. Paul's Anthony Claggett (2-2, 8.20) are expected to be the starters.
The Goldeyes, whose six-game winning streak came to an end, had at least a one-game lead in the division for the past nine days but were unable to pull away from the RedHawks, who have won 11 straight.
"We were fortunate to reel off that many in a row and we had a chance to win today, we just didn't do enough to help ourselves," said Goldeyes manager Rick Forney. "We had one little mistake on defence and that cost us a run and just didn't hit enough. We had opportunities to drive some runs in, especially early and in the middle of the game. We just didn't do the job."
The Goldeyes had three runs on six hits.
Meanwhile Fargo, which beat Winnipeg in four straight games to start this homestand, is playing its best baseball of the season.
"You look at Fargo's team right now, they're on a tear. They're beating everybody's pants off. I think they've won 22 or 23 out of their last 26 or 27 and are scoring a lot of runs," Forney said. "That's how you have to do it. You have to score runs and you have to be consistent doing it."
Winnipeg was led by centre-fielder Chris Roberson, who hit his team-leading ninth homer and recorded his team-leading 42nd RBI. "This league now, every game counts right to the end," said Roberson who also had a stolen base. "We just have to keep grinding everything out. We need to keep coming up with the big ones, that's how we'll score, and keep jumping on (pitchers) like we're supposed to."
Cabrera opened the scoring in the first inning with a dinger off Winnipeg starter Ace Walker. The Goldeyes replied in the bottom half with Roberson's homer to right.
Winnipeg scored two runs in the third inning to take a 3-1 lead, when Price Kendall scored on a bases-loaded walk and a sacrifice fly by Luis Alen scored Roberson.
In the fifth, an error by Jose Duran resulted in a pair of unearned runs for St. Paul. An RBI-single by catcher Alex Garabedian and a sacrifice fly by centre-fielder Jose Hernandez tied the score at 3-3. Cabrera hit his game-winning homer off reliever Kaohi Downing, who took the loss.
Walker again put in a solid performance, going seven innings and allowing three runs on five hits while striking out five.
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This debate of sexuality vs. salvation is not new. Who can forget the drama surrounding the rumored engagement of sex kitten Lisa Raye to Bishop Noel Jones? Sisters in the church almost went cock-eyed giving the side eye talking about that situation. I can't say I blame them. We all remember the movie, Player's Club and that was anything but holy. Sexuality and salvation are seemingly adversaries. These ladies are obviously skating a fine line between salvation and scandal. However, is the strain to avoid the topic the reason why preacher's kids are notoriously known for promiscuity? This struggle to ignore a woman's sex appeal may be the culprit for so many women having deep rooted insecurities. Like the strippers they shun, church girls will search for love and acceptance in the arms of whoever will reach out to them without judgment. When sensuality is repressed it finds unhealthy ways rear its head.
Tammy Franklin opened up to Oprah about her sex life with Kirk Franklin. The gospel artist admitted he struggled with a pornography addiction and his wife confided, "It started not to be special…You don't expect to feel dirty with your husband." A year later, Ebony followed up with the couple who said their national exposure brought them closer together and proved that they could get through anything. Determined to be transparent and open about their fight to follow God's word, the Franklins opened themselves up to ridicule. Yet, they ripped the bandage off and began a dialogue that was way overdue.
Whether sex appeal and salvation are enemies is a topic widely debated. However, while the ladies of the auxiliary board preach abstinence with fiery indignation, our young women are lost in learning how to cope with sensuality. So what do you think? Is there room to be saved and sensual?
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It very original. These days it is hard to find something that reminds nothing but itself!
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by Barbara Ehrenreich
The last few years we've been rained upon by self-help this, and a bunch of power-to-the-postive that. If you've read (or watched) The Secret, you know it's a book of promises from various life coaches, positive psychology buffs, and success gurus. Theses folks say that you can have anything you want... even all that you want... just be positive, and dream it!
It's true. Try it now. Close your eyes and visualize me knocking on your door with dinner and tickets to Disneyland. Make sure you keep it real by dreaming in color. Kay? Ready...? Now go dream...!
Did I knock on your door?
Hopefully the answer is an affirmative nope. (An "affirmative nope" is a "nope" with a positive spin. Gotta keep it positive. Also, it seems that I'll need to stay home for the next while so as to prove this here point.)
The Secret promises stuff. Mostly material stuff. Riches, mansions, even your very own giraffe. All you gotta do is be positive! And it will happen! Just like that! It's magic! They promise this. If you don't believe me, read the book. Or watch the silly show.
The Secret et al. also promises lasting health, prolonged wearing of your skinniest jeans, as well as a visit from the positivity princess herself, Oprah. All you gotta do is be positive. Have cancer? Be positive and it'll go away! Broken feet? Think happy thoughts and you'll walk tomorrow! In your fattest of fat jeans? No problem! Think about rice cakes while you inhale twelve pizzas and a diet coke. Those jeans will finally fit! And Oprah? Just subscribe to her magazine and she'll knock on your door too!
But what if you are positive, and you are dreaming for all of your riches and giraffes, and you fail to receive these riches and giraffes? What then? You failed. You're a pessimistic ninny! You aren't being positive enough! That negative thought you thought about your dirty garage? That ruined your chance of riches and giraffes! Drop-down and give me the reading of all of Tony Robbinses books! Or 25 push-ups. You decide.
Truth is, I'm a believer in positive affirmations. I believe that being positive makes things happen. I believe that the more positive you are, the harder you will work, and the better your life. I also believe that every now and again, we could all use a swift kick o' motivation. So, in fairness to the mega-motivation squad, I believe they are on to something.
However, I don't believe the dream-it-and-achieve-it bull. I subscribe to more of the dream-it-work-your-ass-off-then-scrupiously, even critically-review-your-work-and-then-achieve-it. That's what I believe.
In regards to sickness, I believe there's a mind-body connection somewhere. Not sure what it is, and at this point, it cannot be proven. Irregardless, I believe (from my own experience) that the body will heal better if you're positively hopeful. I believe that. Do I believe that being hopeful alone will do the trick? That's an affirmative nope (there I go being positively negative again.) Health requires some work too. That work might involve rest, or restraint, or exercise, or or some help from modern medicine.
I think Barbara Ehrenreich and I could agree on some things. This Barbara is the author of today's book report titled Bright-Sided. While we both agree that the motivation hocus pocus is a farce, I'm pretty sure Barbara believes there isn't a place in any country on any planet for the mega-motivation squad. She's pretty much anti-mega-motivation squad. This Barbara is a hard-core realist who believes we should see things as they are, and review them critically.
If you do some background research on Ms. Ehrenreich, you'll find that this realist, critical thinking stuff makes sense. She's a scientist. Scientists need and require facts and experiments with lots of control. Positive Psychology doesn't have a lot of facts or control.
The inauguration of this Bright-Sided book came in the form of breast cancer. Barbara was diagnosed with cancer and Barbara was pissed off about it (seems natural to me, I mean isn't anger one of the stages?) To help her through it all, she started reading forums of various cancer support groups. Groups she found overbearingly positive and obnoxiously fake.
As an experiment, Barbara left a comment about her general pissed-offness, and was told by many that she needed an attitude adjustment. One commentator suggested hat her negative thoughts would suppress her immune system which would make the cancer run amok. Good grief, even I know that the immune system has nothing to do with cancer because cancer cells are seen by the human body as human, and the immune system only combats foreign stuff. Logically then, with that train of thought, one could presume that positive thoughts would increase, not decrease, cancer growth. Just sayin'.
After recovering from cancer, Barbara Ehrenreich began to research this positive thinking phenomenon and wrote this Bright-Sided book. She has illustrated some intriguing arguments for how the positivity craze has made American delusional. Maybe she's right. Still not sure. In a chapter titled, "How Positive Thinking Destroyed the Economy," she blames the subprime mortgage mess on the positivity phantasm. You might recall that this was the same subprime mortgage mess that wiped out the nation's economy. Barbara says that the positive people envisioned riches, had been promised these riches, and therefore paid for said riches with debt. Credit cards became easier to obtain, and the mortgage – with that bonus! free money! second – became an ATM on the horizon, waiting, even hoping, to make the dreamer's mega-material wishes come true.
I don't believe that the subprime mortgage mess was the fault of positive thinking. My personal opinion is our country has been able to avoid something called the "natural consequence." Heard of this term, "natural consequence?" It's where YOU make a decision, and YOU are responsible for the fallout of this decision. Weird, right? I know! Somehow bankruptcy wasn't such a bad thing anymore, the equivalent of a slap on the wrist. And somehow, maybe because the word "bail-out" is thrown around so much these days, over-extension has become a welcome way to have it all. Even the giraffe.*
*Note that I'm talking about over-extension used to buy freaky not-necessary stuff, not overextension for various emergencies, so don't send me any hate mail. However... if your overextension emergency involves a giraffe, then gads! You got problems!
It just occurred to me that Barbara's whole problem with positivity, is that it makes people delusional. Delusional people don't see consequences, so perhaps she might be indirectly right. Hmmm. Still thinking on this one.
With that, (which is pronounced damn-it in German) I'd like to conclude with a very thoughtful remark from this talented author:
"The alternative to positive thinking is not, however, despair. In fact, negative thinking can be just as delusional as the positive kind. Depressed people project their misery onto the world, imagining worst outcomes from every endeavor and then feeding their misery on these distorted expectations. In both cases, there is an inability to separate emotion from perception, a willingness to accept illusion for reality, either because it "feels good" or, in the depressive's case, because it reinforces familiar, downwardly spiraling neural pathways. The alternative to both is to try to get outside of ourselves and see things "as they are," or as uncolored as possible by our own feelings and fantasies, to understand that the world is full of both danger and opportunity–the chance of great happiness as well as the certainty of death."
That Barbara is a smart cookie.


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Im in Singapore, thinking about buying a new lens for my Nikon D60 camera. What do you guys recomend? I need something good for travel. not to big, good zoom, lets in a lot of ligt, wide etc. you guys know what im talking about. so... what should i buy? should i buy it here in singapore? or in Kuala Lumpur or Bangkok?
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New Delhi, Jan. 14 (PTI): Chief Justice P. Sathasivam had refused permission to publish his photograph in a government advertisement for a programme related to the Supreme Court, an RTI reply has revealed.
Documents reveal that a request was sent to him for his photograph to be published by the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity during the release of India's first customised pincode to the Supreme Court by the postal department.
Sathasivam was the chief guest at the event and Union minister Kapil Sibal was to preside over it.
The documents accessed by activist Subhash Agarwal show that postmaster-general Rajinder Kashyap wrote to registrar administration and protocol M.A. Sayeed on September 24.
However, this proposal was turned down as file notings mentioned that the office of the Chief Justice of India had refused permission to publish his photograph in the advertisement.
"Due to non-permission from the CJI, the photograph of Chief Justice of India could not be published on September 26, 2013 advertisement," the notings given under the RTI Act said.


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KINGS Worthy is to see the development of 25 new affordable homes, despite the concerns of residents.
On Tuesday (November 27), city councillors voted unanimously in favour of the proposals for Hookpit Farm Lane.
The development has twice before been approved by planning chiefs, but the plans came before the council's committee after some 30 letters of objection were received.
Prior to the meeting, Kings Worthy parish council said that residents' concerns included a loss of parking spaces and levels of traffic at the junctions of Hookpit Farm Lane with Cundell Way and Springvale Road.
Objecting to the application, resident James Hunt said: "It's already a well populated area and in recent years there's been an increase in traffic. I think it's naive to think that parking restrictions in this rural area will be adhered to.
"This proposal is unworkable and unrealistic," he said.
Objections also focussed on whether there really was a need for the development.
But a report submitted by housing officers said there are 207 householders in need of rented accommodation with a local connection to Kings Worthy, and that the need cannot be satisfied purely within the village as it currently stands.
It was also noted that whilst Barton Farm will provide around 800 affordable homes, these will be available to all 3,200 households currently on the waiting list.
Addressing the committee, portfolio holder for new homes delivery, Ian Tait, said: "Although the council will not have direct involvement, I want to endorse and support the officers' recommendations that the council support the plans.
"We want to ensure that all affordable house of this type are of a certain standard. We want to ensure that this development gets approval so that we get quality houses."
Concerns regarding parking were rejected by highways officers on the basis that many of the cars that park in the area belong to dog walkers, and that local residents had no legal right to the spaces.
Council officer Nick Culhane said: "The residents do not control this land: it's not theirs exclusively. They in fact have private parking in the form of garages and driveways."
Neil Holmes, representing the applicant, Drew Smith Ltd, said: "As designers, it's nice to be able to do this kind of development scheme for affordable housing."


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strongk means to stand up for friends and loved ones, you are crazy and dont back down from a fight and don't care what others think of you and got a soft side a loving side and a protect and regular side and am funny and dont put up with others talking shit bout my friends
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UAE among top five air travel markets
Led by Dubai, the United Arab Emirates has become one of the top five fastest growing air travel markets in the world, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
China tops the list with projected passenger traffic growth at 12.5 per cent, followed by Poland with 11 per cent, Hungary with 9.6 per cent, and the UAE with 9.3 per cent, according to its latest air traffic projection report covering the period 2004-08.
Passenger traffic through Dubai International Airport recorded 20 per cent growth last year, reaching 21.7 million, which is close to the passenger traffic recorded in China the previous year. Passenger traffic in China was at 21.9 million in 2003, while the UAE recorded 17.7 million, IATA statistics showed.
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- in-flight catering among top three deciding factors for middle east travellers
- Middle East-based travelers to be among top three growth markets to visit Australia by 2016
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- UAE among top five countries in World Bank 2010 business report


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Lohan ordered to rehab
LOS ANGELES - Lindsay Lohan has accepted a plea deal in a misdemeanor car crash case that includes 90 days in a rehabilitation facility.
The actress, above, pleaded no contest Monday to reckless driving, lying to police and obstructing officers who were investigating the accident involving the actress in June.
A judge says Lohan will be sentenced to 90 days in rehab, 30 days of community labor and 18 months of psychological therapy. The "Liz & Dick" star was on probation when her sports car crashed on Pacific Coast Highway while on her way to a film shoot.
Madonna blasts scouts
NEW YORK - Wearing a replica of the organization's uniform, Madonna called on the Boy Scouts to lift its ban on gays while also calling for a "revolution" to prevent discrimination and abuse of the gay community.
Speaking at the GLAAD Media Awards, Madonna said the Boy Scouts should "change their stupid rules."
Later, she spoke about young people who commit suicide after suffering from bullying. Noting she has teenage kids of her own, she said the situation is "an atrocity to me and I don't accept it."
She then called on the audience to join her in a "revolution" to change the world.
Madonna was on hand to give Anderson Cooper the organization's "Vito Russo" award. Others honored included director Brett Ratner and the TV series "Smash."
Morrissey cancels tour
NEW YORK - Health concerns are forcing Morrissey to cancel his North American tour.
In a statement, his rep says the singer has to take a break after suffering a series of maladies, including double pneumonia, a bleeding ulcer and a gastrointestinal problem called Barrett's esophagus.
Fans can get refunds where they purchased their tickets. Morrissey, left, thanked fans for their well wishes.
Morrissey had to cancel performances earlier this month because of his pneumonia.
Joss Stone murder plot
LONDON - Prosecutors say two men accused of plotting to rob and kill soul singer Joss Stone planned to decapitate her, then dump her body in a river.
The suspects, Junior Bradshaw and Kevin Liverpool, were arrested in June 2011, close to the singer's house after suspicious neighbors reported them to police. They never reached her house.
Opening the case at Exeter Crown Court, prosecutor Simon Morgan told a jury the pair, aged 32 and 35, set off from their home in Manchester with a samurai sword, knives, a hammer, black bags and gloves for Stone's house in Devon.
Morgan said handwritten notes found in the suspects' car indicated they planned to decapitate the singer before finding a river to dispose of her body.
Anthony story may be sold
TAMPA, Fla. - The trustee overseeing Casey Anthony's bankruptcy case has filed a motion to sell the "exclusive worldwide rights" rights to her story so she can pay her debts.
Anthony, who is now 26, was acquitted of murder in the death her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. During a meeting with creditors in her bankruptcy case in Tampa on March 4, Anthony said she was unemployed and has not received any money to tell her story.
R. Kelly home sells
CHICAGO - R&B star R. Kelly's Chicago-area mansion has been sold for $950,000 in a foreclosure auction.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports Kelly's Olympia Fields home was sold Monday to J.P. Morgan Chase, which already held the mortgage.
The property once was valued at more than $5 million. Last year, Chase stated in court files that Kelly still owed about $3 million on the 11,140-square-foot home.
Kelly's one-time spokesman, Allan Mayer, says he can't comment on the auction, but the Grammy winner isn't having financial problems.


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The Pocket Essentials Series is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more.
This Pocket Essential explores how the films George Lucas has directed operate and how they connect together. Whether its the comedy of American Graffiti, the machinations of The Phantom Menace, or the oppression of THX 1138, Lucas films celebrate the power of the maverick sensibility.
It is a sensibility for which Lucas has become a pop culture icon not just in the kinds of stories he tells but in his approach to the medium of movie-making. The book covers the landmark movies - from student movies to Indiana Jones and Star Wars - and also looks at Lucas achievements beyond his work as a director with his creation of Industrial Light and Magic, Skywalker Ranch, and other media ventures, particularly his advocation and development of digital cinema.
"These miniature guides are packed to the margins with important facts and enlightening commentary." --"Publishers Weekly"
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I. Rationale
Primacy of content
If those of us in research libraries were slow to catch on to the fact that format distinctions mean little to library users, the digital revolution has made this concept much easier to grasp. We now understand that students and scholars engaged in historical research seek source material for their projects without regard to provenance or medium. We must recognize, therefore, that organizing library material by format alone confounds, rather than facilitates, library use. From the perspective of the user, a more felicitous organizing principle would simply be to bring together related resources and provide access to them. There is every reason to expect that if we continue to rely on artificial distinctions in organizing library material, our users will desert us altogether for the ostensibly more straightforward and immediate results afforded them by internet search engines, and we will be left to contemplate the tragedy of underutilized library collections.
Impact of web delivery
At the same time, the online availability of current newspapers has called into question the rationale for maintaining print subscriptions. No other genre of electronic text has achieved the ubiquity or level of acceptance as that of online newspapers, which is starkly reflected in the dwindling number of readers of current print newspapers in the Newspaper Library. These developments raise urgent questions about the responsible use of shrinking materials and operating budgets. With static or decreasing materials budgets, we can no longer afford to subscribe to print copies of newspapers, to be read at most by a handful of individuals, only to discard these copies 3 or 6 or 12 months later when a microfilm copy arrives, nor can we justify the investment of human capital in processing these print subscriptions at a time when staffing levels are being reduced.
Newspapers as resources for historical research
Once the traditional practice of maintaining current print subscriptions is called into question, it becomes possible to envision the Newspaper Library in new ways. If our students and faculty increasingly turn to the web to read current newspapers, the character of our newspaper collection is fundamentally altered. Its main constituency becomes students and scholars engaged in historical research, using our rich retrospective newspaper files as primary source material.
With the announcement last fall of the launching of the National Digital Newspaper Program, the successor to the U.S. Newspaper Program, we can look forward to a not too distant future when searchable digital facsimiles of hundreds of newspapers will be available to our users. There is probably no digital resource so eagerly embraced by our faculty and students as the complete retrospective files of newspapers such as the Historical New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Times (London). According to our teaching faculty, the availability and searchability of these sources have radically altered the types of research projects that undergraduate students can undertake.
But even with the NDNP's goal of digitizing 30 million pages of U.S. newspapers, we will rely on microfilm for a long time to come to provide our users with much of this important primary source material. Digitization of foreign newspapers will, for the most part, lag behind efforts to digitize U.S. newspapers. Maintaining our collection of newspapers on microfilm remains an essential service to our users.
Does format matter?
In this period of transition, it is vital that we remain cognizant of the potential losses to scholarship, as well as the gains, posed by the substitution of the digital medium for print. Electronic surrogates take many forms, from digital facsimiles to full content to full text. Although online access is available for many dailies via aggregator databases, often the online delivery of articles removes them from the context provided with the print edition. As stewards of our intellectual heritage, we must address the larger philosophical and hermeneutical issues raised by online surrogacy. What is the nature of context in an increasingly digital knowledge environment? How does electronic textuality differ from the print medium? How do differences in materiality affect the production of meaning and the reader's encounter with a text?
Clearly both libraries and users are profoundly affected by changes in publishing practices and content delivery. The digital representation of information changes not only the mode of encounter with the text, but its very meaning and uses. The process of substituting online access for print must be approached carefully and with full understanding of the implications of our decisions, even when our choices are severely constrained by fiscal realities. Prudence dictates, for example, that we continue to offer students and scholars a selection of current newspapers in print format, precisely so that vital questions such as the nature of context in a digital environment can be fully explored.
II. Overview of Merger
Mission of unit
As we have seen, a confluence of economic, technological, cultural and behavioral factors has created a mandate for change. The changes in patterns of use of the Newspaper Library, with the shift in focus to the historical backfiles, point toward a fusion with the cognate unit, the History & Philosophy Library, to create a central locus for historical research in the library.
The consolidated unit will serve students and faculty engaged in historical scholarship from all departments and programs on campus where such research is performed, from curricula as diverse as speech communications, educational policy, religious studies, advertising, foreign languages and literatures, political science, art history, environmental sciences, and sociology, as well as history. For novice and expert users alike, this library will bring together source material for their research and provide assistance in discovering and locating these resources, as well as guidance in formulating research strategies. The format of the source material may be digital, print, or microform, but the organizing principle of the collection is the content.
Creating a "historical research node" in the library permits concentration of expertise and resources in a way that offers users a more integrated, fluid research experience, in a comfortable, welcoming environment. At the same time, we must ensure continuity of services to the allied disciplines of philosophy and religion, which are presently supported by the History & Philosophy Library. Recognizing that students and scholars in virtually all departments on campus rely on web delivery of current newspapers, we are also challenged to establish a single entry point for newspapers in all formats on the Library's web site. Whether recast as the History, Philosophy, & Newspaper Library, the Library for Historical and Philosophical Research, or yet some other designation, the unit must convert the expectations of all constituent user groups into a coherent repertoire of services and operations consonant with the goals of the Library's strategic plan.
Planning for the merger
An advisory committee was appointed by the University Librarian to assist in planning for the consolidation of the two units. Members of the committee include teaching faculty with ties to one of the programs served by the libraries (Mark Leff, History; John Nerone, Journalism; Patrick Maher, Philosophy), library faculty with allied interests (Lisa Romero, Communications Library; Betsy Kruger, Central Circulation and Bookstacks; Tom Kilton, Modern Languages and Linguistics Library), and a non-UIUC longtime user of the Newspaper Library (Tom Kacich, News-Gazette).
A detailed timeline for the merger has been developed, with a projected opening of the new unit in late August 2005. In addition to the advisory group, the History & Philosophy Librarian is consulting extensively with the Library Facilities staff on reconfiguration of 246A and the Newspaper Library stacks, with the AUL for Collections on newspaper subscriptions and backlogs, and with other personnel as the need arises.
Reconfiguration of 246A
The shelving and reading areas in 246A will be reconfigured to permit transfer of the circulating and reference collections from the History and Philosophy Library, as well as the current periodicals. No current print newspapers will remain in the reading area. Individual and group study spaces, computer terminals, and microfilm reader/printers will be arranged in a manner that best facilitates the research needs of the users. History and Philosophy Library reserves will be located behind the circulating desk in a somewhat reconfigured staff work area.
Within the Newspaper Library stacks, new microfilm storage units will replace the shelving on the upper level, as long planned, to permit transfer of the microfilm from deck 7 into the Newspaper Library stacks. Some of the older microfilm reader printers in the Newspaper Library stacks will be removed. Most of the reference material currently in 246A will be relocated to the bookstacks or Oak Street storage facility. Non-current (ceased or cancelled) newspapers in the reading room will be stored or recycled, and the remaining current newspapers and print indexes will be shelved in the Newspaper Library stacks.
The staff of the two units will be fully integrated. The History and Philosophy Library academic professional and LTA will move into the office of the former Newspaper Librarian (246D), and the History & Philosophy-Newspaper Librarian and graduate assistant will occupy the current workroom (246B). Changes in positions and staffing assignments are planned, but details are confidential and still in negotiation.
Current newspapers online
As tempting as it may be to hope that online availability of current newspapers will lead to simplified or streamlined structures of bibliographic control, unfortunately the opposite obtains. In tandem with the goal of facilitating historical research, the new unit faces a major challenge in the creation of a single entry point in the Library's web site for both current and retrospective newspapers. The plethora of delivery mechanisms for online newspapers, including subscription aggregators, dedicated databases, hybrid databases, and publicly accessible sites confounds traditional modalities of bibliographic control, and new solutions are required to provide users with straightforward access to current as well as retrospective newspapers. Staff in the new unit will work closely with the AUL for Information Policy and Planning, Systems staff, and tech services staff to accomplish this goal.
Instruction and Reference
Library instruction and on-site and remote reference services will be the cornerstone of the new unit, with involvement of all staff. A current news online instructional module is being planned by the Coordinator for Information Literacy Services, the CLIR postdoc for information literacy, and the History & Philosophy Librarian. This will be offered to librarians in other units both as a stand-alone online module and as a template they can adapt for use in their own instructional sessions when current news is a featured resource.
All of the instructional services currently available through the History & Philosophy Library will be maintained, extended, and/or revised to incorporate web-based modules on conducting primary source-based research in the UIUC Libraries. Training will be provided for Newspaper Library staff in reference service in history, philosophy, and religion, and for History & Philosophy Library staff in newspaper reference, together with minimum reference standards.
The ability of the new unit to achieve its mission as a node for historical research will depend in large measure on the availability of an extensive menu of public services, including instruction, on-site and virtual reference, support for the use of microfilm reader/printers, good signage, and an inviting layout of reader space, computer terminals, microfilm reader/printers, and collections.
Mary Stuart
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Hackers used the well-known Heartbleed bug to steal data on 4.5 million patients from the networks of Community Health Systems.
It looks like a familiar culprit is responsible for the theft of information on 4.5 million patients from the Community Health Systems hospital network. Franklin,TN-based Community Health Systems (CHS), a hospital operator that operates 206 hospitals in 29 states across the United States, has confirmed that from April to June 2014, its network suffered a criminal cybersecurity breach. Security experts are saying the hackers responsible exploited the Heartbleed bug.


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Aug. 5, 2013
LARAMIE, Wyo. -
Cowboy Joe Club Auction Website
The University of Wyoming's Cowboy Joe Club is pleased to announce the date and location of its largest fundraising event of the year. The 27th annual live auction, presented by Infinity Power & Controls, will be hosted at Cheyenne's Little America Hotel on Friday, Sept. 13.
The event begins at 5 p.m. with a lineup that includes dinner, entertainment and silent and live auctions. The auctions include hundreds of items, ranging from the opportunity to purchase sports memorabilia, art, and jewelry, along with some very unique experiences. Some of the most well-known Wyoming coaches, administrators and staff will be in attendance to meet and greet with guests.
The cost of tickets for this event includes admission to the event, a premium dinner buffet and complimentary cocktails throughout the evening. Information on ticketing options is available at the Cowboy Joe Club Auction website, found at the top of this page. Invitations to the auction will be forthcoming in the following days. Please RSVP before Aug. 23 to reserve your spot for this year's event.
Exciting sponsorship opportunities for the event still are available. Please contact the Cowboy Joe Club for more information.
To donate an auction item, or to learn more about the 27th Annual Cowboy Joe Club Auction, contact the Cowboy Joe Club at 307-766-6242 or visit the website.


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I didn't know until I was an adult exactly what poison ivy looked like. I knew it had three leaves but that was about it. There were many times I walked right through it and got a rash simply because I didn't know what to look for and couldn't identify what poison ivy plants looked like.
So here are some pictures of poison ivy ranging from poison ivy growing on the ground to poison ivy growing on vines on trees. Hopefully this will help you to identify poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac and differentiate them when you see them in real life.
Use the chart above to know the difference in poison oak, poison ivy, and poison sumac. Although they both have three leaves, the poison oak leaves aren't nearly as pointed as the poison ivy leaves. The poison sumac grows out differently with many leaves.
Here they are again, in the picture above, showing you real life plants as opposed to illustrations. Be on the lookout for each of these because although they are different all three of them can really make you itch and develop a skin rash. If you turn out to be allergic to the poison your skin rash could be severe.
Contrarly to popular belief, poison ivy is not contagious and cannot be transferred from one person to another. However, if poison ivy juices get on clothing and that clothing comes in contact with someone's skin they definitely can develop an irritating skin rash. People have been known to get poison ivy skin rashes from clothing as much as a year after the clothing came into contact with the poison ivy. So the next time you come in from the woods, don't just shower; make sure to wash your clothes right away as well to get rid of any poison ivy juices they may have come in contact with. Also be aware that you can get it on your hands when you tie your shoes as well, since it's likely your shoes would have gone through the poison ivy plants as well.
Here's a picture of poison ivy plants growing along the ground. Notice their three leaf design with pointy tops.
Here's a picture of poison oak leafs. They have a more rounded top leaf than poison ivy plants.
Here is a photo of a poison ivy vine wrapping around a tree.
Here's another picture of poison ivy plants growing on a tree.
Hopefully you can reference the images above and avoid contact with these types of vines and leafs when you encounter them in the woods. For my next post, I will be posting pictures of poison ivy skin rashes, so you can see what poison ivy skin irritations look like. It's sometimes easy to confuse them with other skin rashes so hopefully I can help clarify for you with good information. This is a good site for more poison ivy information.


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Alamo Group Inc. announced that negotiations relating to the proposed acquisition of Bandit Industries, Inc. was recently terminated. The proposed transaction with Bandit had previously been announced on November 19, 2013, based on the letter of intent entered between the parties and as a result of the public disclosure that the transaction had been approved under the Hart-Scott-Rodino antitrust review.
As announced at that time by Alamo Group, the transaction was subject to completion of an acquisition agreement and certain other conditions and, as of now, the parties have been unable to reach an agreement on a basis for going forward.
Bandit Industries is a manufacturer of brush and forestry grinderws, chippers and mowers based at Remus, Mich. Brandit announced the company will remain privately owned in the hands of current owners Jerry Morey, Mike Morey Sr., and Dianne Morey.
Alamo Group designs, manufactures, distributes and services equipment for right-of-way maintenance and agriculture. The company's products include truck and tractor mounted vegetation maintenance equipment, street sweepers, snow removal equipment, pothole patchers, excavators, vacuum trucks, agricultural implements and related after-market parts and services. A huge part of the product line is rotary, flail, sickle and boom mowers.
Alamo Group was founded in 1969, has approximately 2,500 employees and operates eighteen plants in North America and Europe. The corporate offices are located in Seguin, Texas, and the headquarters for the company's European operations are located in Salford Priors, England.


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|With your name on the line, it's important to make sure your taxes are done right.
Any tax preparer who flat-out guarantees a big tax refund may be leading you on -- especially if they haven't seen your financial documents yet.
"One of the biggest scams are tax preparers who advertise they can guarantee you the biggest refund before they even look at your tax information," explains Yvette Rebella, a board member of the California Tax Education Council, a nonprofit tax organization. One potential tactic that results from their promise of a big refund is to juggle the numbers on your tax return to generate the big payout, but that risks an IRS review and bigger problems down the road. Your preparer doesn't have proper credentials.
You can avoid potentially serious issues simply by checking to see if your tax preparer has the correct identification. The IRS recently began assigning Preparer Tax Identification Numbers (called "PTINs"), so if your tax specialist can't provide one, you may be courting trouble by using an unlicensed preparer.


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Photos of Kellan Lutz Walking in NYC With a Starbucks Iced Tea
Kellan Lutz Sexily Hits the Streets Solo in NYC
Kellan Lutz sipped on a Starbucks iced tea this morning as he took himself for a walk in NYC. The Twilight star headed to the Big Apple in order to attend Sunday's Calvin Klein show, which featured a front row that included men who feel sexy in their CKs like Chace Crawford and Mehcad Brooks. Fall Fashion Week also brought out Kellan's rumored girlfriend AnnaLynne McCord, though she stayed quiet about their plans to meet up. Kellan was clearly solo for his stroll today, without even his canine best buds to keep him company.
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Hisa Zeenia is a magnificent traditional 3 storey stone house, dating back to 1860, set in 8 Hectares (approximately 20 acres) of landscaped gardens and woodland and approached via its own private drive. It has been carefully restored to retain its original Slovenian charm and furnished with antiques and traditional pieces and decorated in neutral colours. The house boasts all the modern comforts and conveniences expected in an exclusive villa. The property has been designed to take full advantage of its elevated and secluded position overlooking the Idrijca River toward the Soca Valley and offers its guest a relaxed retreat from which to enjoy the stunning Slovenian countryside. The property is ideal for entertaining larger groups but is also the perfect hideaway for a couple or family. In addition, Hisa Zeenia offers the perfect location for those interested in outdoor pursuits. The Idrijca and Soca Rivers only a stones throw from the house offering fly fishing, kayaking etc...
Hisa Zeenia is a magnificent traditional 3 storey stone house, dating back to 1860, set in 8 Hectares (approximately 20 acres) of landscaped gardens and woodland and approached via its own private drive. It has been carefully restored to retain its original Slovenian charm and furnished with antiques and traditional pieces and decorated in neutral colours. The house boasts all the modern comforts and conveniences expected in an exclusive villa. The property has been designed to take full advantage of its elevated and secluded position overlooking the Idrijca River toward the Soca Valley and offers its guest a relaxed retreat from which to enjoy the stunning Slovenian countryside. The property is ideal for entertaining larger groups but is also the perfect hideaway for a couple or family. In addition, Hisa Zeenia offers the perfect location for those interested in outdoor pursuits. The Idrijca and Soca Rivers only a stones throw from the house offering fly fishing, kayaking and white water rafting. Guides and permits can be easily arranged locally.
Please note, the house can accommodate12 people however is available to smaller groups outside the high season at significant discounts, making it ideal for couples or smaller families.
The House
The house sleeps 12 people comfortably. A spacious entrance hall greets you with views through to the ground floor terrace with its eating area, sun loungers and umbrellas, a perfect spot for reading or just relaxing. Off the hall are 3 spacious double bedrooms, one with an ensuite shower room and an additional luxuriously appointed bathroom. All the bedrooms have been individually decorated using beautiful fabrics and gorgeous bed linens. They also boast glorious views of the landscaped gardens and surrounding mountains.
The first floor consists of a large living room with its original beamed ceiling, comfortable sofas, armchairs, a wood burning fireplace, cable TV and DVD player. There is also a separate TV room (for kids perhaps), equipped with sofas, large flat screen TV, DVD etc. The dining room and fully equipped kitchen. There is also a pantry/utility room with washer and dryer, and a separate W/C. Step through French doors onto the stunning and spacious first floor terrace. With its dramatic uninterrupted views of the surrounding mountains and on towards the Soca Valley, the terrace has been furnished with a comfortable deep sofa, armchairs and a dramatic stone fireplace. A dining area and Weber gas barbecue complete this wonderful "alfresco" sitting and dining room.
The Kitchen and pantry are fully equipped to provide guests with everything necessary for a comfortable stay, including an American fridge/freezer with ice maker, coffee machine, cooker with double ovens, dishwasher and microwave.
On the top floor is the elegant master suite with its antique wrought iron bedstead and impressive bath and dressing room. There are a further 3 family bedrooms and a shared family bathroom.
The Garden and Grounds
The large rose filled gardens of Hisa Zeenia overlook the valley with tree lined paths leading to the well stocked organic kitchen garden and green house from which you may gather fresh salad leaves, vegetables and fruit, to the children's play area and lastly to the spectacular swimming pool. The pool area is perfect for lazy days in the sun. The scent of roses and lavender will surround you whilst you swim or simply relax in the shaded hammock positioned to make the most of the panoramic views. The garden is completed with landscape lighting to provide a wondrous ambiance during your evenings on the properties many terraces.
Beyond the garden, the grounds are there for you to explore with streams and waterfalls to be discovered on the wooded hillsides.
Hisa Zeenia also caters to the younger guest with a discrete children's play area including a swing and sandbox. The pool is enclosed for safety and there is a shallow area and pebble beach for young child to paddle and play. A high chair and travel cot are also available for your use.
Despite its quiet location, the house is just five minutes drive from the main road where there is a small supermarket and local restaurant, which also provides a takeaway service. More extensive shopping and restaurants can be found in Tolmin, approximately 10 minutes drive away.
All bed linens, bath towels and pool towels are included and are changed weekly.
Accommodation type: Apartma***
We had an absolutely wonderful Christmas holiday in Slovenia. The weather was perfect - blue, cloudless skies and frost on the ground - and as a country we found the people to be so friendly and helpful. The Agency had pre-ordered a fresh turkey and 2 ducks to be picked up by us on arrival from a butcher in Ljubljana and they were there ready and waiting and proved to be of great quality and well priced compared to the UK!
Regarding the house, Hisa Zeenia proved to be the ideal place to host our party of 6 (2 couples and 2 singles at Christmas). It was beautifully located, warm and very well equipped. The beds in all four double rooms were really comfortable, so we all got a fabulous night's sleep, and each day we woke up to the gorgeous grounds and mountain views.
A special word for Angela, the house keeper, who could not have been more charming, friendly and helpful. It makes a real difference to be greeted by someone so warm and enthusiastic, and who one knows will do anything possible to sort things out should they go wrong.
The only minor quibbles we had were that on our second day the electricity supply temporarily cut off to part of the downstairs sitting room and kitchen at a time when, admittedly, we were using both ovens too cook our Xmas Eve meal (the ducks!). It would seem that this overloaded the electricity supply. Luckily, the problem only lasted 40 mins and there was no repeat. We also had a plague of flies in the master bedroom on the 1st floor. We dealt with this by identifying the gaps in the beams by which they were entering and temporarily plugging these with tissue paper. I understand from Angela that a more permanent repair has now been carried out. And finally the wireless Internet proved to be very weak on the upper floor, though it was fine at ground level; and the tv box in the sitting room did not work, which meant we had no access to the English language channels or youtube, etc. None of these issues detracted much from our enjoyment of the house overall, though had we not been able to tackle the fly problem that would have meant abandoning the main bedroom, which would have been a great pity as it is such a lovely room.
Overall, we had a really lovely holiday and I would recommend the house unreservedly. Had the option been available, we'd have tried to negotiate a few days longer, which shows just how much of a good time we all had.
Thanks also to the staff at the agency for your help and advice prior to arrival.
The Soca Valley is the "Paradise" of Slovenia. The Villa Hisa Zeenia is wonderful. We had a wonderful time there, secluded in nature, free from any noises and completely in love with all around us. The nights we passed hours watching the stars (incredible views!!), and during the day we visited wonderful places nearby.
If you love nature and you need a getaway from stress and city madness, this is the place!
Nearby you can find crystal clear rivers, lakes, mountains, horseback riding, excellent food ...
Why not a "5 star"? The pool needs to be built differently. This is the only reason.
Highly reccomended !!!
The house is stylishly furnished and well appointed. We especially enjoyed sitting on the beautiful balcony taking in the mountain view.
We were 3 families staying for 2 weeks at this house.
The house is equipped with all the facilities you could need, Wifi, music system, internet TV, beautiful swimming pool and a large range of cooking and eating equipment. It is very clean and has lots of bathrooms. Each bedroom is plenty large enough. The views from the garden are fantastic!
The house is in a great location in the Soca valley with the lovely towns of Kobarid and Most na Soci not far away. For the quieter days I would highly recommend going to the Soca river bathing and diving spot in Slap ob Idrijci. It has a spring board and high diving board, plus football court and free use of the kayaks. There is also a picnic area to use.
This was a lovely holiday and the house was first class.
Amazing home, very well equipped and spacious enough for 2 families.
lots to see and do in the area which is stunning, would love to return.
stayed in this lovely house with another family so 9 of us in total and had plenty of room. great fresh water pool, cold but glad of it after the sun.
All house clean and tidy, well presented and lovely rooms, great beds and showers all what you would want and expect from a property as this.
Good service from the manageress of the house who met us on arrival even though we were late!
talked us through the ins and outs of the house and always on hand to call if we needed to know where to go see, best routes etc etc when exploring Slovenia.
went white water rafting, visited Bled via a car train which was just down the road and Ljubljana and had a dinner at Hisa Franko restaurant which is not cheap but give the tasting menu a go with wine flight.
spent a fair time trekking/biking as the scenery and views were fantastic along the rivers and canyons.
go if you can you wont regret it and try the house out its fun and the people of Slovenia are really friendly.
From Most na Soci train station, drive your car onto the train and relax and enjoy the scenery. In less than an hour, you will arrive at Bohinjska Bistrica where you can visit the famous lakes Bohinj and Bled, as well as Bohinj water park & spa. From here it is just 40 minutes on the motorway to the Slovene capital of Ljubljana. Also in Most na Soci, daily steam boat trips down the Soca river with lunch or fishing in the one of the top trout rivers in Slovenia, the Idrijca are also worth a try and walk up to Most na Soci church to enjoy a stunning view. The water sports centre is based in the next village of Tolmin which is less than 10 minutes drive/25 minutes cycle along the Soca river.
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It is an interesting concept because it is theoretically possible; the network is free and open, so if someone were to have enough computational power (which would cost a huge amount by itself), there is no bitcoin authority to stop them from doing so. In the event that such an attack successfully takes place, it is likely confidence in the currency would be lost and it's value as a currency would decline rapidly.
Wait, they'd have complete control of the network?
Not quite. There's only a couple things someone with 51% of the network hashrate could do. They could prevent transactions of their choosing from gaining any confirmations, thus making them invalid, potentially preventing people from sending Bitcoins between addresses. They could also reverse transactions they send during the time they are in control (allowing double spend transactions), and they could potentially prevent other miners from finding any blocks for a short period of time. That's really about it – enough power to cause some serious mayhem (as that's all stuff that isn't supposed to be able to happen) but nothing that would seriously cripple the network – at least not immediately. They couldn't reverse transactions from long ago, create new coins out of thin air (besides through regular mining), or steal coins from other people's wallets.
In reality a 51% attack is feasible – especially with the rise of mining pools (groups of people mining together as a single unit). However the potential damage one could cause is small – though enough that it cause a panic that would seriously threaten bitcoin's use as an online currency. At current network mining difficulty levels, not even large-scale governments could easily mount a 51% attack.


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The Lingen site has been manufacturing fuel assemblies for boiling and pressurized water reactors as well as special powder and pellet products for more than 40 years. Furthermore, the site has received orders for the disassembly and reassembly of unspent fuel assemblies, thus contributing to making the shutdown German nuclear power plants fuel-free. Specific competencies in the design and construction of manufacturing technologies are another pillar and contribute to a high production quality – and therefore safety in nuclear power plants also outside of Germany. ANF also ensures the education and training of radiation protection experts and other nuclear professionals. This knowledge and these competencies will still be needed in Germany even after the phase-out in 2022.
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Copper Crooks Are Destroying Little League Season in Northeast Houston
Broken lights taking the fun out of northeast Houston Little League.
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Robert Dejean came to yesterday's City Council meeting to express his frustration at not being able to carry out the remainder of the Little League season with proper lights at Smokey Jasper ball field. See, vandals, he said, ripped the copper out of the light poles some time ago and the city has yet to fix them.
This delay signaled frustration, particularly from Councilman Dwight Boykins, who said, "Two-point-five billion in our general fund and we can't fund some lights for some kids? It doesn't make sense, man." "It's an insult," he said.
The issue of discretionary money to help out the community was followed up by Councilman Jack Christie. "This is a very legitimate complaint. Why don't we each take $1,500 out of our budget?" he asked.
It was the second time the lights, needed for night games, were destroyed at the Smokey Jasper Park baseball field, an important stop for Houston's young baseball fans.
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"Mayor Pro Tem, what kind of power do you have?" Christie asked Ed Gonzalez.
"They rip out the copper in our parks, too," Gonzalez replied with a chuckle.
Mayor Annise Parker was on a trip to Houston's sister city of Perth, Australia, and didn't attend this week's meeting.
Councilman Michael Kubosh reiterated the question of who has shot-calling power when the mayor is away.
"You brought up a good point, Mr. Christie," Kubosh said. "Who's in charge when the mayor's absent. That brings up a serious question."
We contacted the mayor's office seeking an explanation on that matter, but they haven't gotten back to us.
As for Dejean, who's a coach in the northeast Houston Little League, he left and spoke with Lucy Correa of the parks department, but said he didn't feel they were any closer to a solution ahead of the Little League playoffs coming up. In his testimony before council, he suggested council help pay for rental lights that were around $1,000 a pop.
"I left there with the impression that they are going to do the best that they can." But time isn't on their side, since playoffs are set to begin next month.
"From what I understand, they're doing their best effort to alleviate the problem, trying to repair all the lights. They were going to go back and discuss it with their maintenance department," Dejean said.
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