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[Plugin: BulletProof Security] Feature suggestion to avoid 403 errors
First I want to express thanks to the author for his efforts for the WP community.
I installed BPS 0.46.3 today on three WP 3.1.3 blogs of different ages and of different amounts of other plugins installed. The steps I did for each were to create backups, then "create secure .htaccess file" by AutoMagic, then activate BulletProof mode for each folder: root, wp-admin, BPS master htaccess and BPS backup, in that order.
Two of the three blogs started giving me 403 Forbidden for all pages under /wp-admin/ instantly after clicking to activate the BulletProof mode for BPS master htaccess folder. Admin dashboard is now inaccessible for those two.
Interestingly the blogs were the oldest and the newest one, which had virtually no plugins installed. If it had any, the other two blogs both had them as well. Since one of the blogs encountered no problems, I believe that a plugin conflict is not the cause.
I'm very surprised that the feature supposedly for copying and renaming a .htaccess file to wp-content/plugins/bulletproof-security/admin/htaccess/ can block access to wp-admin/. Happening on two blogs at the exact same point – but not done at the exact same time – closes out most server configuration based causes that I can think of.
1. What might be the cause of this error? Could it be something in my server or directory permission configuration?
2. Suggestion: Make all changes done by BulletProof Security to require a user confirmation that the following page loads occurred correctly, and if the confirmation is not given in a reasonable time (e.g. 5 minutes), reverse the change. Optionally make it even more automatic: if any pages under wp-admin/ manage to be completely loaded during the next 5 minutes, keep the change, otherwise reverse it.
This will avoid the admins being locked out of their admin panels in case anything goes wrong, for any reason, by any change.
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Cremation's increasing, and so is the creativity of funeral directors
How is the rising cremation rate changing the way you deal with your funeral home's customers and the community?
Funeral service professionals may not be able to change the rising cremation rate, but ignoring it won't make it go away. From California to New York and everywhere in between, funeral homes are experiencing increases in their cremation numbers and changing how they do business accordingly.
"We're definitely seeing a lot more cremations," said Rick Williams, president of Williams Funeral Home in Milledgeville, Georgia. "I can remember back in the '60s when my dad first opened the funeral home, we would have one or two cremations a year. Very, very few. And now it's certainly grown quite a bit.
"We're trying to be responsive to the public's requests by providing the services they want and finding unique ways to help them memorialize their loved ones."
Williams is not alone; more and more funeral directors are changing their approach to cremation, perceiving it less as the enemy and more as an opportunity to provide new levels of service to their families.
They are learning that cremation does not have to mean a minimal service—or no service at all. There are a number of ways funeral directors can ensure that more cremations do not lead to disappearing profits.
Providing even more cremation options can help bring in more business and help your firm gain a competitive edge over others in the area. The important thing is to keep families informed of their options. People can only purchase a product or service if they know it is available.
To better assist their families, many funeral homes are creating entire selection rooms devoted to cremation, expanding their selection of cremation products and building their own crematories.
ICFM talked to eight funeral service professionals across the country about how they are responding to cremation.
SUSAN BRING, president of Bring Funeral Home Inc., Tucson, Arizona, and STANLEY STOBIERSKI, owner and president of Heritage Memory Mortuary, Prescott, Arizona, are no strangers to cremation. With a statewide cremation rate close to 65 percent, neither feels threatened by the high numbers.
''I think that one of the big mistakes people make with cremation is just talking about it like it is negative," Bring said. ''Too many people approach it from the standpoint that it is in lieu of burial, but it doesn't have to be. The important thing is to keep families informed of their options."
Bring does that by getting involved in her community with a program she calls "Necessary Conversations." She and her staff visit local organizations such as hospices, churches, schools, mobile home parks and businesses. They explain the options available and encourage people to make their wishes known to their families.
Stobierski owns several funeral homes in Arizona and is in the process of building a crematory which should be completed early in 2006. He agrees with the philosophy that cremation should not limit choices.
"Our feeling is that cremation has to be taken just as earth burial or entombment would be, and it's a matter of us creating different types of funerals with cremation."
To better assist cremation families and make them aware of all their options, Stobierski and his staff have created a cremation room with cremation caskets and other products, including a larger selection of urns and keepsakes.
NATHAN BITNER, president of Hetrick Funeral Home Inc., Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is another strong believer in the importance of keeping families informed and making quality service the first priority.
"There have been times when the family didn't want a memorial service, but still wanted a two hour time when people could come and express their sympathies and condolences to the families," Bitner said. ''We try to accommodate all requests."
Making more services available to cremation families and being receptive to their specific needs has helped Hetrick Funeral Home maintain a very low direct cremation rate. In recent years, Hetrick has expanded its selection room to include a wider selection of cremation caskets and urns and keepsake items such as necklaces, bracelets and fingerprint jewelry.
Families who come to Moloney's Lake Funeral Home in Lake Ronkonkoma, New York, are attracted to the beautiful setting of the funeral home as well as the many options that are available to them.
F. DANIEL MOLONEY JR., owner and funeral director, works hard to bring in more cremation families, in spite of some unique challenges created by New York state law, which prohibits funeral directors from owning their own crematories. Because Moloney owned a crematory before the law went into effect, Moloney's Lake Funeral Home is one of only a handful of firms in New York that have one, yet he is not permitted to advertise this fact.
Instead, his ads emphasize other qualities that would appeal to cremation families, such as the Mother Teresa Tribute Center, a stand-alone building on the grounds of one of their funeral homes that can hold up to 100 people. This tribute center, where food and drink can be served, can be used for committal services, group meetings and more, but its primary function is to offer families a more comfortable setting to say goodbye to their loved ones.
All five of the Moloney funeral homes have memorialization centers with a variety of products, including urns, jewelry, candles, religious items and cremation casket units, set up in such a way as to make families feel less intimidated.
These efforts seem to be paying off. "Our direct cremation rate has actually gone down over the past five years, though the cremation rate has gone up," Moloney said. "So we think that the things we're doing are putting us in the right direction and attracting those families that are looking for innovative ways to memorialize."
Williams Funeral Home in Milledgeville, Georgia, is the first and only funeral home in its county to have a crematory. RICK WILLIAMS, president, saw the need for one just over three years ago. In addition to handling their own cremations, they perform cremations for other local funeral homes.
Williams also stresses the need to educate families about all of their options. By spending time talking to families about cremation, he has found that more people are opting for embalming, viewing in a rental casket and funeral services in the chapel followed by cremation the next day.
"As things keep evolving and society keeps changing, people want to know their options," Williams said. 'The more options that are out there for them, the more they can take advantage of them."
In the past, Williams said, it was rare to see older people choosing cremation, but that is not so much the case today. Cremation is growing among people of all generations. ''I guess people are looking for the simplicity and the ecology," he said. ''People get warm and fuzzy feelings for different reasons. We're definitely seeing a lot more cremations."
When MARC BURR, a fifth-generation funeral director and president of Burr Funeral Home and Cremation in Chardon, Ohio, started offering LifeGem more than two years ago, the concept of turning cremated remains into diamonds was a new, exotic option. His own mother left the room in disgust in the middle of Burt's local television interview about the new service.
Since then, the concept has caught on and Burr has sold four LifeGems in the past two years, each costing as much as $10,000. One family in particular stands out in his memory because he can still recall the smiles on their faces the day they picked up the diamond. To them it was a perfect and permanent remembrance of their loved one.
"There are many other folks who probably wouldn't think it is appropriate, but isn't that what we're here for?" Burr said. "To help every family do what has meaning to them, not to their neighbors."
The first cremation at Burr Funeral Home was in 1912, and they have continued ever since. Geauga County, where Burr Funeral Home is located, has always been one of the highest per capita income counties in Ohio, and they are used to dealing with cremation-oriented consumers.
Burr's philosophy is to embrace change and be open to new ideas. "If a family wants to do something, and it's legal, we're going to make it happen."
In one of the more unusual services Burr remembers, the deceased's cremated remains were divided into four separate urns, each of which was given to one of the man's four siblings. They brought the urns up to the altar at a Catholic Mass, where the priest accepted them.
''You want to talk about a change," Burr said, "talk about the changes going on in the church. Specifically the Catholic Church where, in the past, the body had to be present and cremation was considered a negative, and now the priest is allowing four individual containers to be brought up front during the Mass."
Under the leadership of operations manager BRADLEY BISHOP, Allnut Funeral Homes in Fort Collins, Colorado, differentiates itself from surrounding funeral homes by incorporating innovative technology and personalization in all of its services and merchandise.
One of the products offered at Allnut Funeral Homes is software which allows families to scan photographs to their computer and personalize a scrapbook of the person's life. They also offer people the option of purchasing a package that includes video presentations, flowers, personalized folders and use of reception facilities.
Cremation families can choose from a variety of products, including jewelry, urns, sandstone benches and pillar stones, which can be personalized and placed in gardens. ''With regards to personalization, we've even transformed one of our casket selection rooms into what we call a 'celebrate life room.' We decided to take the 22 caskets out and make the space more suitable for every family, not just burial families, so that they can see all the options available," Bishop explained.
''Personalization makes the service so much better." Bishop said he always tries to honor the families' requests no matter how odd they may seem to others. He recalls one family with an apparent sense of humor who asked for tin cans to be placed at the back of a funeral coach with a sign saying "Just Buried," instead of "Just Married." He obliged, of course.
To RAY VISOTSKI, CFSP, owner and manager of George Funeral Homes in Charleston, South Carolina, quality service means doing things right the first time and focusing more on what you can do for people rather than what you can sell them.
Visotski said he does not believe in investing in a huge inventory of merchandise. Instead, he instills in his staff the importance of paying attention to details and being perceptive to the needs of families.
"We started a long time ago readjusting our prices to reflect the value of our licenses, our background and our experiences, as opposed to just trying to sell lots of stuff to make up for our profit. We don't have a big emphasis on merchandise here. Never had, and probably never will. There are so many things you can be doing for people. They need to perceive value in what you charge."
Visotski believes it is this philosophy that has helped his company increase its market share from 35 to 52 percent in the past six years.
One combination of service and merchandise they have added to increase value to families is memorial videos and DVDs. Because they are included in the basic services package, they are produced at no extra charge and have proven to be a great success.
In addition to owning two funeral homes, Visotski also owns the South Carolina Cremation & Memorial Society, a direct disposition service which rents space, staff and use of the crematory from George Funeral Home. Because of the society's low fixed expenses, it is able to offer simple cremation at discounted prices.
Since much of the society's business is done via phone, fax and e-mail, it is not uncommon for Visotski and his staff never to meet the families with whom they deal Visotski advertises the society's services by placing ads in newspapers around the state, excluding his own market, and also informs people of this option through his work with hospice programs.

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Compound screening is an essential part of the early stage of the drug discovery process, to identify molecules that have activity on specific drug targets. Compounds identified as "hits" are further optimized using traditional medicinal chemistry (combinatorial chemistry) to determine chemical groups responsible for evoking a target biological effect or structure-activity-relationships (SAR).
With such large numbers of compounds and chemical entities in compound libraries, the removal and handling of large numbers of samples from stores for assay set up can be a complex and time consuming process.
TTP Labtech's self-contained biobanking modules, comPOUND and arktic, can be placed in remote locations to maximise valuable laboratory space. Using TTP Labtech's pneumatic transport technology, sample tubes can be rapidly selected and transported to any laboratory without the need for manual intervention, thus improving the research workflow.
Aliquot transfer from stock plates or vials, serial dilution and plate preparation and replication require accurate but repetitive and time consuming pipetting, as well as meticulous sample labelling, tracking and management. As such, the ability to automate sample dispensing and processing is invaluable, providing reproducible and accurate volumes and significantly decreasing the turn-around time from compound synthesis to assay ready plate production.
TTP Labtech's mosquito range of liquid handlers allow rapid, accurate, reproducible nanolitre volume compound dispensing for high speed plate set-up, irrespective of viscosity or environmental conditions.


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Picked this up today. The filament looks good, though I havent tried it. The outside label says 24C, Edison and 113. The label on the base of the filament says " The manufacture of this bulb is licensed under patents noted on other side". The other side has several dates, the latest one is Octobver 10, 1908. There is also handwritten l 1132 inside the bulb, on the filament base. If nyone knows what that might mean, please let me know. Also, if I want to see if it lights, would it be better to put it in a circuit with a dimmer, and bring up the voltge slowly, or just turn it on. Thanks for looking!


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Atlassian SourceTree is a free Git and Mercurial client for Windows.
Atlassian SourceTree is a free Git and Mercurial client for Mac.
This is a repository of scripts that are used to to work Atlassian access and event logs in Amazon Elastic Map-Reduce and Redshift.
To use pretty much any of these scripts you will need a user set up in the Atlassian account in Amazon. Contact Dan Buchner for that and get ACCESS_KEY and SECRET_KEY from him.
You need to install the following on your system to use many of the scripts in this repo:
s3cmd - Download from http://s3tools.org/s3cmd, configure it and put it in your path
elastic-mapreduce Ruby CLI - Download from http://aws.amazon.com/developertools/2264, configure it and put it in your path
AWS CLI - You can install this Python command line client with just 'easy_install awscli'.
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Fancy getting involved in a little geekery? Well we've done a little research and found some stuff going on this week that you might be interested in:
Tonight: Manchester Google technology user group – At Madlab from 7
Thursday: Northern Digitals is on again at The Northern from 6pm so you can chat to other people in the digital industry. CING are running a summer BBQ at the Mark Addy. It's £10 but you get food and drink.
Friday: Freelance Friday at Madlab. You pay them a fiver and you get the chance to chat to other freelancers, use the wifi and free buffet.
Saturday and Sunday: Leedshack is on… in Leeds if you fancy some mega geek action. Apparently, it's the largest UK hackday outside of London.


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Shelby Sineway has arrived at the HP testing facility. Shelby Sineway you are lucky, what a great opportunity to go behind the scenes at HP. HP loves having Flat Stanleys visit. Today, Shelby Sineway helped out with testing and got to hang out with cool HP employees. Go Shelby Sineway!
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Dr. Foght has over 40 years experience in the healthcare and life science industries. He was a co-founder of DuPont Pharmaceuticals and the founder and President of Vector Securities International, a premier investment banking firm specializing in life sciences. He is currently chairman of the Board of Directors of Illinois Ventures LLC, a premier seed and early technology investment firm that commercializes technologies from the University of Illinois and other Midwestern universities. He also holds many advisory positions, and he is board member of the Illinois Emerging Technology Funds, Chairman of PharmaIn Inc. and a former board member at Cambridge Antibody Technology (UK), Acrux Limited (Melbourne, Australia) and Advisory Board Member for Ovation Pharmaceuticals (now Lundbeck).
"We are pleased with the addition of Jim to our Board of Directors," said Guillermo Herrera, Executive Chairman of Pinnacle Biologics Inc. "Jim brings to Pinnacle the combination of scientific background, industry experience, financing and banking knowledge."
"I am excited to join the Board of Directors of Pinnacle Biologics; Pinnacle management, product line and expansion programs makes this company an outstanding player in the emerging healthcare space," said Dr. Jim Foght.
About Pinnacle:
Founded in 2008, Pinnacle Biologics Inc. is an emerging Pharmaceutical company devoted to the acquisition of revenue generating products primarily in the Oncology field. Pinnacle spends resources in increasing product revenues by managing product life-cycle trough expansion of indications, new forms and applications of the products. Currently Pinnacle commercializes ETHYOL®, brand of Amifostine in Western Europe.
Contact information: Guillermo A. Herrera
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Building surveying > Safety regulations > Fire and life safety
Fire and life safety
Fire and life safety
Fire and life safety covers the legislation and requirements relevant to the provision of fire and life safety within a building in England and Wales, outlining its application and enforcement, recognised levels of provision, and means of achievement.
Buildings prior to occupation, occupied buildings (including those subject to alteration/extension), and buildings of historic or special interest are discussed. General considerations include maintenance/management arrangements, responsible persons, means of escape, consultation, automatic suppression and fire engineering.
You should always look at legislation in full and check via the government planning portal for possible exceptions in this complex area.
This section is maintained by Beryl Menzies of Menzies Partners Ltd.
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- List of RICS standards and guidance
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There's no doubt about it, we live in a celebrity-obsessed culture. Some may see this as a serious decline in our capacity as learned and sentient beings, but honestly, why wouldn't we be obsessed with celebs?! They're rich, they get to travel all over the world, they have the best clothes, and they bang the hottest hotties. We follow their social media and wear their labels, and now that we have access to every little detail about their lives, from their bra size to the shape of their torso, we can have that much more in common with our fave famous faces!
Here are 9 celebrity body types / actual bodies we could even, I don't know, skin and wear like a suit of armor in an attempt to protect ourselves from the banal mediocrity of our daily lives…and there's one for everyone! Check it out!


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Avalon Siem Reap
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Read the best port reviews and tips for this cruise itinerary.
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A roll call is a space for members who are signed up for the same cruise (same ship & departure date) to connect.
Make friends BEFORE you sail, exchange tips on what to do onboard and in the ports and maybe even organize a shore excursion with your ship mates.


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Quantitative easing (QE – the purchase of government securities by the central bank, financed through increases in base money) in the UK is not working. I should have written "not yet", for posterior coverage reasons, but I'm running out of patience with a policy that (a) has been ineffective for the half year of its existence and (b) can be easily modified to make it more effective. Credit easing (CE – the outright purchase of private securities by the central bank) in the UK really hasn't been tried. Of the total Asset Purchase Facility limit of £175 bn, up to £50 bn could have been used to purchase private securities outright. Instead, out of the just under £154 billion purchased up to 24 September 2009 (see here), only £2 bn of private securities have been purchased by the Bank of England. The rest of the £175 bn Facility has been or will be devoted to purchases of UK Treasury securities. No doubt this gives the Chancellor of the Exchequer a warm feeling inside, but from every other perspective it looks like a poor use of Bank of England resources.
Since QE started in January 2009, the Bank of England's balance sheet has continued to explode, as is clear from the Table below, which shows the Bank of England's Balance Sheet at the end of July 2007 (just before the crisis) and at the end of August 2009. The total size of the balance sheet rose from £80.3 bn to £220.3 bn. The peak of the Bank of England's balance sheet size so far was at the end of July 2009, when it stood at £245.3 bn, more than three times its July 2009 size. This is the largest proportional increase in the size of the balance sheet of any of the leading central banks.


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This was not one of my favorites only because it is a little more robust than I actually wanted for a medium roast. However, it was not bitter and I did make it on the smallest single brew setting (6oz) so perhaps a larger brew size would be better. Also I only use two tablespoons of half & half in my coffee. So for those who like a strong full bodied cup of coffee that isn't bitter –you'll love this.


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TEMPE, Ariz. – Mary Case Bird, 96, died Jan. 12, 2010. She was born in Everett, Wash. Mary retired from the Bangor school system as a kindergarten teacher. She was a longtime Orono resident and a member of Church of Universal Fellowship. She is survived by sons, Frederick H. Bird of Ellington, Conn., David F.K. Bird of Kailua, Hawaii, Alan L. Bird of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Hong W. Tan of Sewalls Point, Fla.; cousin, Persis Shook of Tacoma, Wash.; nieces, nephews, three grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Arrangements by Tempe Mortuary, Tempe, Ariz.
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Snowboarder Scotty James had a tough introduction to the Sochi Winter Olympics, hurting his "man parts really bad" but teammate Torah Bright felt no pain after qualifying straight through to the slopestyle final.
Bright, who has a congested schedule of three events at the Sochi Winter Olympics, was silky smooth in qualifying second from her heat and will be in firm medal contention come Saturday.
But it was a tougher day for James who was 11th out of 15 competitors in his heat, missing out on the top-four spot needed to progress directly to the final.
To add injury to insult he hurt himself on the first run when he took a tumble coming off a jump. "I had a little slam in my first run. It's a bit unfortunate but I'm looking forward to Saturday, keeping in a positive frame of mind," James said.
"I was a little bit embarrassed, I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I hurt my man parts really bad."
The 19 year-old two-time Winter Olympian, who will also contest the halfpipe, now moves to Saturday's elimination event where he'll have to finish in the top four to make the 12-man final later that day.
He improved on his second qualifying run but a mistake towards the end of the course cost him any chance of direct finals entry.
Bright was brilliant though, laying down a silky run at her first attempt to finish on 85.25 points behind Swiss Isabel Derungs (87.5) in her heat to progress straight to the Saturday decider.
After raising questions about the course before she'd even seen it, Bright wasn't any happier having given it a tilt in competition.
"The problem was, we're the best at what we do and the course just wasn't up to par," she said.
"The changes that were made definitely helped a lot. The way it's all built just didn't match up and so there are some very unhappy people because this is the debut of slopestyle."
She backed American snowboarding superstar Shaun White's decision to pull the pin on the slopestyle event after he suffered a minor injury while Norway's Torstein Horgmo and Finn Marika Enne took more serious hits at practice.
But Vancouver halfpipe gold medallist Bright wasn't going to withdraw from anything. "No way. I'm doing three events and I'm going to have a hell of a time, one way or another," she said.


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It's Green Day! But ... it's kinda contradicting though hahaha ... anyways it's not the highlight for this post -.-|||.
Since I'm not blogging any anime titles cos of the lack of 'real' shoujo-ai/yuri developments in the recent anime titles ... I'm turning my focus on translating doujinshi with real content =) ... I've been hestitating to translate Strawberry Panic! doujinshi because of the sexual content in most of the doujinshis I read ... but to the hell with it, I DID translated Doropanda Tours' Urahime - ShizNat, this is nothing compared to that lol. So be prepared to gear yourself with tissue boxes ...
Yes, it's Angelbox's Strawberry Panic! Doujinshi - 'Ichigo no Tsubomi', it's a Tsubomi x Yaya plot ... so if you're into Hikari x Yaya, too bad lol. I feel that Tsubomi's more suitable for Yaya than the meek Hikari XD. As it's another mature title, I'll translate the whole doujinshi before I post it up on zip like what happened to Kaishaku's Kannazuki no Miko doujinshi so it'll take a month perhaps, it's 26 pages so stay tune.
I might do another Strawberry Panic! doujinshi later ... also Angelbox's, but that will be Nagisa x Tamao ... which I'm kinda ... unwilling lol since I'm a Nagisa x Shizuma fangirl, blehhhh. It'll depend, it'll depend ...
Well since I'm out of things to post ... what should I do? I'm thinking of reviewing some nice stories in Yuri Hime magazines ... or the quite recent Yuri Hime S but ... Okazu already got reviews on them so ... I dunno. Any suggestions?
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A PASSPORT ticket allows repeat entry for one year to the Ironbridge Gorge Museums in the lovely Severn Valley, where the Industrial Revolution began. Stroll the streets of Blists Hill Victorian Town - and don't forget to walk across the old Iron Bridge itself at Telford.
What's The Deal? Adults £19.95, over-60s £15.95, children £12.95, family £54.95. Excludes evening events, some workshops, activities and events and Christmas at Blists Hill. WHERE TO STAY: The Telford Hotel & Golf Resort (0845 074 0060, www.qhotels.co.uk ) have one night's dinner, B& B for two adults from £135 (children under 12 sharing parents' room stay free, evening meal extra). Price includes family passport for Ironbridge Gorge Museums, quote Ironbridge Experience Mirror 09.
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THE Key to the Castle ticket allows admission to the castle and grounds for a year. When it comes to historic English castles, Leeds, near Maidstone, is about as perfect as it gets. Children will love the Knights' Realm adventure playground and the toddlers' play area.
What's The Deal? Adults £16.50, concessions £13.50, children £9.50.
Where To Stay: Stay in one of the three selfcatering cottages in the grounds and get a free pass to the castle. Weekly rental from £400 (sleeps 2) to £950 (sleeps 10).
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VISIT as often as you like to see historic warships like HMS Gannet, HMS Cavalier and Cold War sub HMS Ocelot. Then there are the museums, a collection of lifeboats, the Ropery and the Wooden Walls interactive exhibition. There are also indoor and outdoor play areas and family activities during school holidays. WHAT'S THE DEAL? Adults £14, concessions £11.50, children £9.50, family £39.50.
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Eden Project, CORNWALL (01726 811 911, www.edenproject.com )
PAY once and keep coming back to see the greenhouses that look like giant bubble wrap. Explore steamy rainforests and lush Mediterranean habitats and enjoy the gardens. A family Summer Survival Challenge is on during school holidays - could you survive in the wild?
What's The Deal? Adults £16, seniors £11, students £8, child £5, families £38. Online reductions. WHERE TO STAY: Premier Inn, St Austell, (0870 242 8000, www.premierinn.com ) have standard rooms from £70 per night.
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BUY a ticket on your first visit to this attraction in Hull, come back and pick up your Day Plus Pass that lasts a year. See big fish, little fish, pretty fish and ugly ones. The underwater lift which takes you through the main tank is a must. Events include jelly fish week and shark week.
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AN all-inclusive ticket allows you to see everything from Lord Nelson's HMS Victory and Henry VIII's Mary Rose to a harbour cruise - plus unlimited entry for one year to HMS Warrior (built in 1860), the Royal Naval Museum and Action Stations. At Action Stations kids get to experience life as a Marine. There are flight simulators, a chance to command a warship, as well as a rotating climbing wall to scramble up.
What's The Deal? Adults £18, seniors, £16, children/students £13.50, family £50.50. Excludes some special event days.
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i'm sorry for flooding this poor journal with so many posts. but it had to be done today, my last full day in texas.
i would like to note that i did not write all three previous entries today. i always write a big chunk of thoughts shortly after i make things… and then procrastinate on selecting photos and editing it all into a nice post. but i didn't want to have any kitchen related things spill over after tomorrow, and i didn't want to abandon the posts i had started. i wanted to finish while everything was still (slightly) fresh in my mind.
my thought process was: do i really want to be writing about things i baked in texas while i am in france? no! so do it now. before you forget. while its still relevant. while you still care about it, because once you cross that ocean, you're going to want to write about the new things there that inspire you, rather than the old things that are piled up on your laptop. so, now.
i did it. bam. done! no more backlog!
but most importantly, i wanted a clear divide between my cooking and baking pre-europe and post-europe. (québec travels don't count! those are coming later on. plus, i still have lots of taiwan travels i haven't written about either… it's only kitchen stuff in texas that i'm weird about)
so this is THE END to my 2009 kitchen adventures in texas. after today, it will be whatever adventures i have in europe. and then i will resume when i come back to texas, but it will be on a new and refreshed slate filled with tons of new ideas, tastes, and smells! (not just baking…. life… art… photography… languages… metals… etc… etc…) and of course, new books as well!
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Hawaiin Birthday
For a girl who was turning 22 and moving to Hawaii. (I'm jealous). I used graham crackers for the sand and the ocean using 3 different colors. The palm tree is MMF (didn't look like I thought it would) with a dowel holding it up. Beach towel and surfboard MMF. Flowers are MMF with super sparkle (love sparkles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)Fun cake to make.


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Editorial: Seniors accomplished a lot
The members of Farmington's Rambling River Center have done something pretty remarkable over the past three years. Since 2009, the group has raised close to $80,000 as part of an agreement they made when the center moved to an expanded space in the former Farmington city hall.
They've raised money with garage sales and waffle breakfasts. With individual donations and, of course, with their annual Kiss the Pig contest during Dew Days.
As a result, the group is now just over $10,000 away from the $90,000 goal they must reach by 2014.
In other words, they've got three more years to raise about an eighth of the money they've already managed to collect.
That's impressive, but it shouldn't come as a big surprise. Farmington's seniors have a history of getting things done. It was the seniors, after all, who did a lot of the work that went into getting the original senior center built. And it was the seniors who did much of the work to turn the former city hall into the facility it is now.
Farmington's seniors don't just ask for facilities to be provided. They go out and do the work necessary to get things done, and they should be applauded for that.
There has been a lot of that lately in Farmington. Youth sports organizations, baseball and softball in particular, have put a lot of work and a lot of money into improving fields around the city.
Those kinds of contributions are particularly important as the city continues to struggle with its budget.
It was no small task for Farmington's seniors to raise the kind of money they did. This is a difficult economy for fundraisers of any kind. They've done it, though, and we have no doubt they will reach their goal well within their deadline.
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So after I wrote about the San Francisco network hostage situation yesterday, I started thinking a bit more about this situation. Based on all the data I've found in the press, it certainly appears that Terry Childs changed the passwords on some number of network devices within the city's network. If there's more to this story (such as the rumors that he was a DBA and this was an Oracle sabotage job), then we move into a completely different ballpark. As it stands now, using the information publicly available, what Childs has done could be considered a juvenile prank, not an attempt to sabotage the network and cause real damage.
Again, we're assuming here, but even if we remove the specifics and make this a hypothetical case, there are many, many miles between changing the passwords on the core and edge switches and, say, dropping a dozen databases.
Unfortunately, to the public at large, there isn't much of a difference. To a normal computer user, the phrases "he maliciously altered the AAA mechanisms in the city's network to prevent access" and "he issued queries damaging to city data repositories" are basically the same thing. Of course, they're miles apart in damage done, but to folks who struggle with spyware and anti-virus tools (and sit on juries) they might as well be the same thing.
In a comment on my previous post on this issue, a user name 'der golem' summed it up nicely:
"Okay, I won't pretend I understand everything you wrote here, but there is something really alluring and provocative about tech speak."
"Alluring" might not have been the word I would have chosen, but the point is that the law deals with common crimes like theft with offense levels. There's petty larceny and grand larceny, for instance. What Childs did may actually violate any number of other laws, possibly even anti-terrorism laws since it involves a city government. If all he did was change those passwords, then it's likely that he'll be charged with crimes that don't match the events, simply because the case centers around a computer network.
Sten, another commenter on that post, had another point of view (and one that's quite common):
"Entelleghent [sic] mangers always love exaggerating the actual proportions - it's a management trick they call "risk management" - you pretend to have a huge problem; if the problem is small and solved fast - you're a genius hero; if the problem turned out to be complex - you can say 'I told you so'"
This is definitely true -- underpromising and over-delivering aren't bad things, necessarily, but for city government officials to do so publicly, while the man accused of the crimes is in jail isn't really appropriate.
Again, this is all speculation and hypotheticals since I don't have enough information on the specifics of the Childs case to come to any meaningful conclusion. I would love to have more information on this case, however. If anyone has anything more detailed than what's been released to the press, I'd love to hear it.
Given the facts known, Childs certainly did something he shouldn't have, but unless he dropped a logic bomb in the network, it's barely a bump in the road.
If you really wanted to make a point and mess up the network, there are many better ways to do it. You could place a box near the core somewhere that randomly swaps bits in the datastream. That would certainly cause problems, but would also be discovered quickly.
Better yet, write a few database queries that randomly swap numbers and letters in various database fields. If that script started out slow and then grew in scope over days and weeks, it's likely that by the time the problem was discovered, most of the backups would already be tainted, and anything using that database would be basically unusable. For a municipal government, the data loss and time required to fix that problem would be significant, to be sure. Most or all criminal and tax records would be compromised and chaos would ensue. Interestingly, I wrote about this very scenario several years ago. The cost to fix problems like that would carry a heavy pricetag, indeed. Maybe even millions of dollars.
Don't get me wrong -- I'm not defending Childs' actions in any way, shape, or form, I'm just pointing out that there's a world of difference between letting the air out of a car's tires and wiring a bomb to the ignition switch.


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BUENOS AIRES, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Argentina's state-controlled energy company YPF said on Thursday it had reached a deal worth $550 million with Malaysia's state oil firm Petronas to develop shale oil in the vast Vaca Muerta formation.
Argentina needs foreign investment to develop the shale formation, thought to be one of the world's largest.
YPF said Petronas would contribute $475 million to the initial investment in oil exploration in the southern Argentine province of Neuquen.
"During the pilot stage, we will drill more than 30 wells," YPF said, noting that depending on the results, the project could be continued with an investment of more than $1 billion in the first five years.
Some studies indicate Argentina is sitting atop a shale bounty that could transform the outlook for the Western Hemisphere's supply and secure the South American country's energy self-sufficiency for decades. (Reporting by Alejandro Lifschitz and Sarah Marsh)


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Association of Circulating Chemerin Levels and Arterial Stiffness
The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
Verified January 2011 by Korea University.
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Chemerin is a novel adipokine that might provide a link between chronic inflammation and obesity. Pulse wave velocity(PWV) is a useful method for examining arterial stiffness, meaning early-stage atherosclerosis. Therefore, in the present study, the investigators examined the relationship between circulating chemerin and arterial stiffness measured using PWV in obese persons.
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Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- The difference of serum chemerin level between obese and non-obese groups [ Time Frame: at the time of initial enrollment (4weeks) ]serum chemerin levels of all participants were by determined by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit (Biovender Laboratory Medicine Inc., Modrice, Czech Republic)
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- The correlation of serum chemerin levels with arterial stiffness [ Time Frame: at the time of enrollment (4 weeks) ]Arterial stiffness was measure using a Colin Waveform Analyser (model BP-203RPE II; Colin, Komaki, Japan). It was expressed as branchial ankle pulswe wave velocity (baPWV)
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Exclusion Criteria:
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- Severe renal or hepatic disease
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The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is a voluntary conservation program from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. It supports production agriculture and environmental quality as compatible goals. Through EQIP, farmers may receive financial and technical help with structural and management conservation practices on agricultural land to address concerns such as soil erosion and productivity, grazing management, water quality, animal waste, and forestry concerns. EQIP also assists eligible small-scale farmers who have historically not participated in or ranked high enough to be funded in previous program sign ups.
There is a continuous signup for EQIP; however, to increase your chances of funding, apply by September 30. Funding selections will be announced in the second quarter of 2012. Producers interested in applying should visit their local USDA Service Center as soon as possible to prepare their applications.
In South Carolina, EQIP will pay 75 percent of the costs of eligible conservation practices under the general sign-up. Historically Underserved who are Limited Resource, Socially Disadvantaged, and Beginning Farmers are eligible for 90 percent cost share. Those to be considered Socially Disadvantaged for this program are American Indians and Alaskan Natives, Asians, Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Native Hawaiians or Pacific Islanders. Incentive payments may be made to encourage a farmer to adopt land management practices, such as nutrient management, manure management, integrated pest management, precision farming, and wildlife habitat management.
All sign-ups are conducted at USDA Service Centers in South Carolina. More information on NRCS conservation programs can be found at www.SC.nrcs.usda.gov under programs.


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In a survey conducted earlier this week, 1,000 blondes were
asked if they would sleep with Tiger Woods.
89 per cent said, "Never again!"
Got a good chuckle outta that one CA, Thanks!!
Tiger Woods was diagnosed with " Restless Third Leg Syndrome ".
Why did so many girls want to sleep with him? Answer : They'd seen his amazingly long 'putz'.
Most successful pick-up line ever : " Let me preface my remarks by saying that I am Tiger Woods, so lets go somewhere and do it. "
Think his wife's mad ? What about the boyfriends all those girls were probably cheating on ?
For a guy who cherishes his privacy, he sure let a lot of girls see him naked.
He may quit golf for baseball. He knows how to play the field.
Of course he'll continue with golf. He doesn't look ready for NASCAR.
His next coach is going to be John Wayne Bobbitt, who can help him avoid a bad slice.
Be careful buying golf clubs on ebay. Some of them have bent shafts.
So many women. At least now his wife knows why he needed a car that sat so many people.
He's required to attend PGA meetings : "***** Getters Anonymous".
Tiger is changing his name to " Cheetah".
He took time off from golf to focus on other things. If your girlfriend is a waitress, keep an eye on her.
His wife got hold of his golf club. When he drove away, he was just trying to save his balls.
When your wife is a murderous blonde, there is no such thing as safe sex.
He lost endorsements. After all, companies that use subliminal sexual messages like " Just do it" in their ads have to protect their outwardly clean image !
Ironic that the woman who will probably end up with the least money is named 'Grubbs'...
Why do they call him Tiger " Woods" ? Because his wife broke all the irons bashing the Escalade.
He never told his wife that they call it a Cadillac " Let's Get Laid ".
A woman simply walked into the offices of the National Enquirer and offered to sell the story of her affair with Tiger for $50,000. They told her to take a number.
So, didn't he do the same thing Bill Clinton did with Monica Lewinsky ? Close but no cigar !
Can't help it. These jokes write themselves....
Hard to believe you actually took the time for all the keystrokes it took to transcribe that.
It was not Tiger's fault. Guys like him have beautiful women trying to jump into bed with them. If you don't believe me, do what Tiger did---give a madam $15,000--- and see what happens.
Back when he was starting out as a pro golfer, Tiger was down several strokes against a tough competitor. He asked his caddy what he should do to win.
The caddy suggested that Tiger cheat. He misunderstood and the rest is history.
Pro sports are going to drop the drug tests and start testing instead for STDs.
The divorce settlement is as follows :
Elin gets a piece of every investment Tiger owns and tiger gets a piece of every waitress he can nail from here on out.
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Kyle Busch and Monster Energy Fourth in Richmond
On a cool late summer night, at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway, Kyle Busch posted his 16th top-five finish in 19 races this year, with the No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Monster Energy team. Busch and crew fought an ill-handling race car all day, from practice early Friday morning when they paced the field 21st quick, through qualifying that afternoon where he secured a seventh-place starting spot with a 21.857 second lap at 123.530 mph. In the main event, Busch raced as high as second-place at one point, but bounced among the top-10 most of the night, to bring home the black and green machine in seventh place.
Upon taking the green flag Busch immediately began giving his crew feedback on the carâs handling. âIâm tight in the center, have no rear lateral and it isnât turning in the front,â described the Las Vegas native who has already chalked up nine wins this season with this No. 54 JGR team. The team spotter Tony Hirschman quickly noticed the Toyota was also showing more front brake âglowâ than other teams â something they would keep an eye on through the race.
Lap 14 displayed the first of seven caution periods for the event and the team elected to remain on track, foregoing a pit road visit. The car balance started to become unbearable, however, for the series champion hoping to turn his night around for a good result in the 1,000th NASCAR Nationwide Series event. By lap 69 the team took the opportunity to pit under another event yellow flag and crew chief Adam Stevens elected to take a swing at the carâs track bar setting. The crew quickly replenished Sunoco fuel and Goodyear tires, as well as made the chassis adjustment, to settle down the No. 54âs handling. The crew examined their Goodyear tires upon completion of the pit road visit and found a great deal of brake dust on the wheels, but nothing that cautioned them.
After the subsequent race restart, on lap 73 from the sixth position, Busch relayed more positive feedback to his team, âWhatever you did on rear lateral was good, keep working it, just make sure I can still turn.â Over halfway to go in the race, and during another event caution period, Busch brought his Camry to pit road from the fifth-place spot to receive further track bar adjustments along with tires and fuel. âWe are on the edge of our pit window,â claimed Stevens. He relayed, âSave fuel please where you can under caution.â
During the next portion of the race Busch exhibited fast lap times, battled for the third-place position and achieved it. After another pit road visit with air-pressure adjustments made to the tires and more fuel given, the No. 54 team worked its way to the second-place spot on lap 180, what would end up being their highest position of the night. While the move from third-place to second-place was good for the No. 54 team, Buschâs maneuver caused JGR teammate Matt Kensethâs No. 18 car to move out of line. Busch apologized over the radio, âIâm sorry if I messed up the No. 18. I feel bad.â
While it appeared the Monster Energy team could end up salvaging a good finish, perhaps the win, their fate was ultimately sealed when two subsequent yellow-flag cautions provided green-flag restarts, that jumbled up the field, with a negative effect on the No. 54. Stuck behind slower cars, then forced to attempt progress in the outside lane, Busch worked hard to improve his position, but came up short in the end. The JGR team completed the short-track event in the fourth-place spot, their 17th top-five finish of the season. Victory evaded the team this week, but they are encouraged to try again over eight remaining weeks.
Busch didnât have much to say post-race commenting, âWe werenât good today. Have some work to do these last few weeks.â
Brad Keselowski won the Richmond event, his 25th victory in 201 NASCAR Nationwide Series races. Brian Scott led a race-high 239 of 250 laps but finished in second place, while Regan Smith, Busch and Trevor Bayne completed the top-five finishers. There were seven caution periods for 35 laps of the race along with one lead change among two drivers.
The No. 54 Camry owned by J.D. Gibbs remains second in the Ownerâs Point standings, now 18 points from the lead.
The next event on the Nationwide Series schedule is the Dollar General 300 presented by Coca Cola on Saturday, September 14th at Chicagoland (Ill.) Speedway with the race television broadcast starting at 3:30 p.m. ET on ESPN2. Busch will make his 20th start of the season behind the wheel of the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 54 Monster Energy Camry.
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Felt like a living infomercial: Grandeur of the Seas Cruise Review by DCTerry
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Felt like a living infomercial
Destination: Bermuda
Embarkation: Baltimore
Besides the constant sales pitch, the cruise was a mixed bag.
1. Getting on the boat was fantastic and well run operation. Very simple and easy.
2. Room was clean and reasonably sized.
3. The gym was much larger than I anticipated. There was even a steam room and a dry sauna in the locker room.
4. "Specialty" restaurants - We went to all 3 and they were really very good and had excellent service. You pay extra for each of these, but we felt it was worth it.
5. Sushi restaurant had an excellent "hot rock" dish. The food here was really very More good!!
6. Generally relaxing. There seemed to be plenty of space to find a spot to sit and relax.
7. Cruise Director's Staff. They were fun and funny. They'd pop up all over the place and facilitate an event and such. We liked them.
1. My wife was pregnant and couldn't drink. No problem, except that all individuals in a given stateroom must buy the alcohol packages... so I was forced to "pay as you go" in terms of drinks. It turned out that this was a better deal for me at the end of the day but this seemed to a silly rule that they wouldn't bend on.
1. Nickel & Dimed: Everywhere you turned, they were trying to sell you something. Everything was a "deal"! They found a way to sell you everything. Even a "behind the scenes" ship tour-- $150! I'm all for a company charging what the market will bear but at some point you're just ripping people off.
2. Staff / Service Another guest (who had done several cruises) joked that Royal Caribbean's slogan should be "If you want something, go get it yourself." Other than our room attendant and the specialty restaurant staffs, we felt as if the others were inconvenienced by anything we may have asked for. Everyone seemed to have a bit of an attitude and nobody seemed to actually like their jobs. They all seemed to be annoyed to be working. Only 1 time on the last day did someone ask us if we'd like a drink while sitting at the pool.
3. Towel service. I've never in my life been to a resort or hotel where they make you check out pool towels with your room key so that they can charge you $25 if you don't bring them back. Where in the world are you going to take them? You're stuck on a boat! There's no place to go with them!
4. Restaurants. There are 3:
(a) Park Cafe - open pretty much all the time. Serves snacks, sandwiches and salads. The ham & cheese on mini croissants were awesome. Otherwise, the selections were pretty limited.
(b) Windjammer Cafe - This is the buffet. The food here was pretty uneven. Sometimes it was good, sometimes it was terrible. They do have a large variety, so you can probably find something that you're interested in. The problem is that it's extremely congested. Felt very much like a mall cafeteria... or a low-rent college cafeteria. And then once you fight the crowds to get your food, you have to roam around trying to find a vacant table.
(c) Gatsby Dining Room - Men have to wear pants for dinner-- which is really pretty silly and old fashioned. The food tastes like it had all been pre-plated and sitting under heat lamps for a long time. The food wasn't terrible-- it just wasn't good. Staff here were generally friendly.
5. Schedule - Your 3 days in Bermuda is very exaggerated. We went over Labor Day and the itinerary was such that we arrived in Bermuda on Sunday evening, getting off the boat around 5:00pm. We then had all day Monday available to go ashore and on the last day, you had to be on the ship by 11:30am. So, your 3 days in Bermuda is really 1 + an evening.
6. Planning - When getting off the boat in Bermuda, we were alerted that Bermuda observes Labor day and that EVERYTHING would be closed Sunday evening and Monday essentially, the entire time we were in Bermuda. It seems that RCI should have known this and could have easily tweaked the schedule to give passengers a better chance to enjoy the island.
7. Exaggeration of Cruise time - "7 days"... I guess, if you count waking up and leaving as a day.
8. On the last evening, they closed the pools at about 6:00pm and completely drained them. I still don't understand why. Kids were disappointed to find that the pools were closed.
9. Disembarkation -TOTAL DISASTER. #ROYAL CARIBBEAN FAIL! There are really no other words to describe this. It was just a mess. Wait times to leave the boat were over 2 hours. Everyone had to just sit/stand there. It was astounding and we all felt like we were being held hostage. RCI blamed Border Control. Border Control blamed RCI. I don't know whose fault it was, but it was a terrible experience.
10. Staff lack of knowledge. When buying the "coke package" when we first got on, I asked what kind of pop (soda) they had and specifically asked if they had Coke Zero. (They advertise that they have the new coke machines that have like 75 difference flavors available, but they don't actually have these machines at all.) I was told that indeed they did have Coke Zero. In reality all they had was coke and diet coke. I guess my question was just too complicated.
I will never again in my life go on another cruise after this experience. We thought maybe it was just us, but other more experienced cruisers were complain too so we didn't feel quite as bad. One lady who had been on 10 cruises said that this was the worst cruise she had ever experienced. Less
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On Monday, a video played in court showed Mngeni being asked questions by police on the evening of November 16, 2010. In it Mngeni says he is "just a bit scared of the other guy, the one who did this".
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Feb 27, 2013 - By Bruce Tippets, Sports EditorTwo wins at the Class 3-A West regional boys basketball tournament by Lander Valley School puts the Tigers into the state tournament.
LVHS starts the postseason at 1:30 p.m. Thursday vs. Jackson in the opening round of the double-elimination regional tournament at Powell High School.
LVHS ended the regular season at 9-5 in conference play and 14-8 overall. The Tigers are the No. 4 seed for regionals. The top four teams qualify for the Class 3-A state tournament.
Jackson is the No. 5 seed for the regional tournament.
"I feel our defense is where it needs to be for us to compete," LVHS coach Terry Hopkin said. "Our offense needs to step it up a little for us to get to state."
Star Valley is the No. 1 seed. Powell clinched the No. 2 position, and Lyman sits at No. 3.
"We need to have a better shooting field goal percentage than we have had the last month," Hopkin said.
Jackson and LVHS split the regular season series Jackson won on its home floor in a 52-37 victory. The Tigers downed Jackson 43-36 at Bob Carey Memorial Fieldhouse.
"I really don't think that it matters that much who you play," Hopkin said. "You have to beat the best to get to state. It's one game at a time."
The winner of the Jackson-LHVS contest plays at 5:30 p.m. Friday in one of the semifinals against the winner of Star Valley-Pinedale.
The two losers of the opening round game play at 10:30 a.m. Friday.
At 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Cody (No. 6 seed) faces Lyman.
Powell plays at 8:30 p.m. vs Mountain View (No. 7 seed). The title game is 8:30 p.m. Saturday.
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The Lander girls are the No. 6 seed for the regional tournament.
LVHS opens the postseason at 7 p.m. Thursday against the host Powell Panthers in the final game of the opening round. LVHS completed the conference season at 6-8 in conference play and 9-12 overall.
"I think that after Star Valley, everybody is pretty even," LVHS coach Spike Robinson said.
Powell is 2-0 on the season vs. the Tigers.
"Powell is not a bad matchup for us," Robinson said. "The two games that we played against them, we just didn't shoot the ball very well. Hopefully, we will be able to do that on Thursday."
The two losers play at noon Friday for the right to keep the season alive.
Star Valley has the No. 1 seed. The Lady Braves play at 9 a.m. vs. No. 8 Mountain View.
"Star Valley just has a lot of good kids," Robinson said. "It's not like they are unbeatable. They just kind of stand out. They just have more good players than the rest of the teams."
Jackson Hole (No. 4 seed) and Cody (No. 5) play at noon in the other opening round.
"We will play great for two games, then not very good for three games," Robinson said. "We are just so up-and-down."
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'We're under greater and greater stress, and we're looking for calm when we come home," says Dale Storer, owner of Greentea Design in Toronto, specializing in Japanese contemporary furniture. "Clean lines are fabulous, but it can't work if you have stuff everywhere. You need a place to put it all."
Natural light, convivial entertaining, an airy, loft-like feel – open-concept layouts are definitely a thing these days. A survey of U.S. designers last year by the International Furnishings and Design Association found that 90 per cent believe that separate rooms – one for cooking, one for dining, one for serving tea to the Queen – will go the way of the avocado bathroom suite by 2020.
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