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I got 3 questions here. first is, my cousin owns a NEF pardner single shot 20g and the firing pin fell out hen e were hunting, so i was wondering if we could get a titanium firing pin and put that in there, would that work? and then how would how would i put that in the gun? the final question is, my pump mossberg maverick 88 wont shoot half of he shells i put in there, in will leave a dimple but won't shoon the shell so how could i fix that? we had a guy take it apart and clean eveything but that didn't work so any help?
Double Ought- Titanium, steel etc does not matter. The firing pin designed for THAT gun matters. The firing pin is held in place by a retainer- looks like your cousin lost the retainer. Gun uses a transfer bar system IIRC- hammer hit the bar, which hits the firing pin. Find a gunsmith, pay him to do what he doe for a living- it will be worth it.
While you are there, give him your pump gun. There could be a number of things causing fail-to-fire, none of which are truly identifiable at long range.
Rex recalls a lite striking Rem 870 Wingmaster
I found that the rebounding fireing pin had packed up grit, sludge and other stuff in the firing pin channel till the firing pin was intermittantly firing the gun, I removed the firing pin and soaked the bolt with Brake cleaner and scraped out that area using a brass wire with flattened end (spatula) and was to scrape and scoop out all sorts of mean evil nasty gunk that had been packed in there during firings (1984 Rem 870 wingmaster).
when storing a Shotgun leave the hammer down and the bolt closed put a condom over the muzzle so house dust wont accumulate in barrel (it does not shure how it gets in gun cabnet but does)
if yall are over 14 save your $ and get some new guns
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Downtown's Al Lang Field could soon house a baseball academy and a museum under a new leasing deal designed to revive the vacant historic ballpark.
The City Council agreed last week to lease Al Lang and the Raymond A. Naimoli Complex to Tampa Bay Spring Training, an offshoot of the St. Petersburg/Clearwater Area Convention and Visitors Bureau's Sports Commission.
The business group has vowed to attract local baseball coaches, who will train their players to play visiting teams. International teams will also be courted to train there, a baseball landmark since 1947. A new History of Baseball in St. Petersburg Museum will highlight the city's historic relationship with baseball.
The three-year deal takes effect Feb. 1. Tampa Bay Spring Training will operate as the St. Petersburg Baseball Commission.
The Tampa Bay Rays used both parks from 1997 to 2009, but did not renew its lease after relocating spring training to Charlotte County in 2008.
The lease requires the St. Petersburg Baseball Commission to cover utilities, insurance fees, grounds maintenance, staffing, marketing and repairs up to $10,000 a year.
The commission will be able to rename or sell Al Lang's naming rights, with the City Council retaining final say over the name of the facility. The baseball commission can keep all proceeds up to $100,000 from the sale. Proceeds in excess of $100,000 will be divvied up between the city and the tenant, with the city receiving 75 percent of the cut.
The city also agreed to pay up to $200,000 a year for capital repair, according to the contract.
The city will still operate Al Lang's parking lot and pocket any parking revenue. The city also will be able to use both recreation facilities rent-free for up to four days each year.
"The idea of having baseball back at Al Lang, I like, but the economics of the deal are also good," City Council member Jim Kennedy said.
St. Petersburg is poised to save $680,000 a year on the new deal compared to its lease agreement with the Rays, city officials said.
Council member Wengay Newton, however, was upset that the city was giving away the naming rights without first researching how much such a deal could be worth.
"I would like to see a number before you negotiate," he said.
The contract stipulates Al Lang must close for certain periods to accommodate downtown's annual Grand Prix.
Joe Zeoli, the city's managing director of city development, said the weekly Saturday Morning Market, which operates from Al Lang's parking lot, should also be able to stay put under the deal.
"Right now, that is certainly our plan," he said.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Golf fans nationwide can hear complete coverage of the Masters Tournament from Augusta, Ga., on XM Satellite Radio April 7 – 13 on XM channel 146.
XM will provide more live radio coverage of the Masters than any other broadcaster. 2008 will mark XM's third consecutive year as the exclusive satellite radio network of the Masters.
XM tees off its coverage of Masters Week on April 7 with Peter Kessler's daily morning show "Making the Turn." XM will be at Augusta starting April 8 with the pre-event press conferences at Augusta National Golf Club. An in-depth preview of the Masters and interviews from the Par 3 Contest will air April 9. Live play-by-play coverage can be heard on XM April 10 to 13, from the first tee to the green jacket ceremony.
XM's Brian Katrek will host the broadcast and John Maginnes will be the lead analyst. XM reporters will include Mark Carnevale, Doug Bell, Fred Albers, and John Tautges. Jim Gray will join the XM broadcast team to interview players at Augusta. The XM team will be located at key positions on the course for coverage and commentary.
XM airs golf programming throughout the year, as well as every Major League Baseball game, every National Hockey League game, college sports from the six major conferences, and motorsports. XM also offers the 24-hour sports talk radio channels XM Sports Nation, MLB Home Plate, NHL Home Ice, ESPN Radio, ESPN Xtra, and Fox Sports Radio.
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XM (Nasdaq: XMSR) is America's number one satellite radio company with more than 9 million subscribers. Broadcasting live daily from studios in Washington, DC, New York City, Chicago, Nashville, Toronto and Montreal, XM's 2008 lineup includes more than 170 digital channels of choice from coast to coast: commercial-free music, premier sports, news, talk radio, comedy, children's and entertainment programming; and the most advanced traffic and weather information.
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Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements in this press release include demand for XM Satellite Radio's service, our significant expenditures and losses, our dependence on technology and third party vendors, our potential need for additional financing, the health of our satellites, the impact of our proposed merger with Sirius, our substantial indebtedness as well as other risks described in XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc.'s Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on 3-1-07. Copies of the filing are available upon request from XM Radio's Investor Relations Department.


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SINSHEIM, GERMANY – Japan international Shinji Okazaki bagged his fourth brace of the season Saturday in Mainz's 4-2 come-from-behind win at Hoffenheim.
With the game even at two goals apiece, Okazaki struck his first in the 75th minute to give Mainz the lead before closing the scoring in the second minute of injury time.
Okazaki, who scored for the first time since Jan. 25, has 11 goals in the campaign. Mainz is fifth in the Bundesliga table and will host leaders Bayern Munich next weekend.
"I was just thinking about scoring today so it was great to be able to do that," Okazaki said. "At the end of the day, I'm judged on how many goals I score.
"But we've got Bayern next. I'm not sure how, but we've managed to be in fifth place so hopefully we can build on this. Against Bayern, you concede one and it's over so we've got to do much better than we did today."


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This April I travelled for the first time to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. I had been invited to two weddings and a 60th birthday party. Knowing very little about the cities, but having been told to expect was a colourful, laid back and fun experience, I was extremely excited to see for myself!
Brown's Beach House
I stayed in the Brown's Beach House which I chose due to it's close location to Tel Aviv Beach. As we drew up to the hotel the first thing I saw was a bright pink neon flamingo and palms, perfectly tropical!
The hotel is sister to Browns in central Tel Aviv but takes on a much more fun and laid back design vibe! Waking up with a view of waves contradicting the busy urban building site in front was so refreshing and the colourful! The rooms had the perfect dose of colour treatment with yellow colour pops, black and white chevron carpet and luscious blue velvet chairs with gold legs.
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Hillsborough County Sheriff Candidate Will Protect Citizens' Natural Rights to Life, Liberty and Property
GOFFSTOWN, N.H.—As a successful businessman with executive-level skills and a knowledgeable citizen who cherishes the system of checks and balances set up by our nation's founders, Hillsborough County Sheriff candidate Frank Szabo is well positioned to revitalize the importance of the constitutional sheriff role in New Hampshire's most populous county.
"A county sheriff is not doing his duty if he simply transports prisoners, guards the courthouses or helps other law enforcement agencies with their arrest warrants—this is very basic level work that should be done at a minimum," Szabo said. "Unfortunately, most elected sheriffs ignore their most important duty, which is to serve their constituents by protecting their natural rights, including their rights to life, liberty and property. As sheriff, my first duty will be to the citizens of Hillsborough County and to defend the state and federal constitutions from all enemies, foreign and domestic."
Szabo, who decidedly does not have law enforcement experience, considers his business-executive background an advantage over his primary- and general-election opponents. In New Hampshire, the Legislature designed the qualifications for county sheriff—that he be a registered voter 18 years or older—specifically so any citizen could get elected who understands the law and the constitution enough to gain the confidence of voters.
"Currently in the law enforcement community, there is a general spirit of cooperation among officers at different levels of government, whether local, county, state or federal, and officers are generally conditioned not to question supposed higher-level authorities," Szabo said. "This status quo understanding is dangerously incorrect and responsible for many of the more troubling abuses of authority in our country today, and it is the reason why a county sheriff is at a disadvantage with a law enforcement background. As sheriff, I will work within Hillsborough County to uphold the supreme law of the land—the state and federal constitutions—regardless of what any other law enforcement agent says to the contrary."
According to Justice Antonin Scalia in the majority opinion he wrote for Printz, Mack v. United States (1997), "States are not subject to federal direction." Quoting James Madison, Scalia added: "The local or municipal authorities form distinct and independent portions of the Supremacy, no more subject within their respective spheres, to the general authority than the general authority is subject to them, within its own sphere." In other words, the county sheriff is the chief law enforcement officer in his county, and it is his job to enforce the supreme law of the land, even when that contradicts the legal opinions of local, state or federal agents, Szabo said.
Unfortunately, in today's ever-growing police state, there are too many instances of legal abuse to list them all, but here are some clear examples: In April, Michigan authorities used SWAT teams, guns drawn, to order farmers to kill the heritage pigs their family farms had raised for generations by classifying them as an "invasive species." This effectively ended their family businesses. In July, an Oregon man was sentenced to 30 days in prison and fined $1,500 for collecting rain water on his own property.
"Neither of these property-rights abuses had to happen; the county sheriffs should not have allowed it," Szabo said. "The first thing I will do as sheriff is notify federal agencies that they will not come into the county unless they go through the office of the sheriff.
"While some level of civility is necessary to get along in society, a sheriff should be directly opposing the work of federal, state and local regulators and law enforcement agents when they are violating the constitution like this," Szabo added. "I have no other political aspirations and I owe no political favors. As such, I will use the office of Hillsborough County Sheriff to protect citizens' rights from any unlawful act perpetrated under the color of law by rogue local, state or federal agents."
About Frank Szabo
Frank Szabo, who lives in Goffstown with his wife Madeline and family, is running for Hillsborough County Sheriff to protect citizens' rights and property as a constitutional peace officer within the county. The longtime businessman has owned and operated a successful limousine service and obtained a high-level of expertise in financial management and health care administration. Besides his practical life experiences and real-world common sense, Frank will bring to the sheriff's office his knowledge of court room legal proceedings, how to read and interpret laws, and his well-earned executive-level skills, including analysis and problem solving, financial management and business administration, personnel recruitment and training, and public speaking. Paid for by Citizens With Szabo. Frank Szabo, Fiscal Agent. For more information, visit www.SzaboForSheriff.com.


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It is said that the way to a man's heart is through the stomach. In this program, celebrities touch the heart of their favourite co-celebrity with an exotic, sumptuous dish exclusively prepared for the latter. Our team takes the responsibility of making it happen. So one not only gets to know the preparation of a food item, but also has an opportunity to witness the feelings such an act arouses in the minds of both the receiver and the giver.
Celebrity kitchen is a combination of preparation , anticipation and emotion.
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The RIT Big Shot
A Commemorative Collection of Photographs 1987-2009
de DuBois, DuBois, Peres
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A commemorative collection of twenty-five one of a kind images, this book presents an inside out look at the planning and staging, relationships and experiences of the Big Shot project, from its beginnings in 1987 to the present day. Never before seen photographs accompany essays by organizing photographers, Michael Peres, William DuBois and Dawn Tower DuBois, along with other
notable participants.
The Big Shot project illustrates the dramatic power of "painting with light" on historical and contemporary architectural structures and their surrounding landscapes. As this publication demonstrates, it also celebrates the contributions of students and public volunteers in an innovative community-based photographic endeavor.
Proceeds from the sales of this book help subsidize the Big Shot project and its related activities.
This book and accompanying dust jacket were designed by Rachael Gootnick with support from the Open Publishing Lab at RIT. © 2010
Características y detalles
- Categoría Arte y fotografía
Apaisado grande, 33×28 cm
120 Páginas
- Fecha de publicación abr. 14, 2010
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The RIT Big Shot project illustrates the dramatic power of "painting with light" on historical and contemporary architectural structures and their surrounding landscapes.
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LizTakesPict Received the book from my Dad for Christmas. Great gift! Have participated in several of the 'shots'. Was able to get all 3 authors to sign the book last night at the most recent Big Shot at the Strong Museum.


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Chances are, you've heard of Linux.
But did you ever want to give it a try?…Maybe take it for a test drive?…See if it acts well with your computer hardware?
Well, you can! And you can do so without installing it, and without tampering with your current operating system.
OK…so how is it done?
You can test drive Linux with something called a Live CD.
Basically, your computer will run the Linux operating system off a CD. And there's no need to worry about harming your Windows OS, or any of your files for that matter. Your hard drive is totally ignored.
If you like Linux enough, you can install it from the Live CD; but, you don't have to.
In this post, we're not going to cover the installation process, but we will cover:
- Downloading an ISO file
- Burning the ISO file to a CD
- Making sure your computer will boot from your CD-ROM drive, and finally,
- Test Driving Linux
Let's begin:
Step 1 – Downloading an ISO file
First, we have to make a clarification: There are many different "versions" of Linux to choose from. It's a bit different from Windows, where you have Windows XP, and then, years later, an upgrade to Windows Vista. With Linux, there are thousands of different "versions;" which are referred to as distributions.
Some Linux distributions provide a Live CD, while others do not. Since we're looking to test drive Linux without having to install it, we're going to need a distribution that does provide a Live CD.
In this post, we will focus on testing one of the most popular Linux distributions: Ubuntu.
The Ubuntu Live CD download is approximately 700 Megabytes in size. So, it is recommended you have a fast Internet connection (e.g., cable, DSL). If you do not have a fast connection, you're not out of luck. You can order the Live CD (for free) from here. The CD may take a couple of weeks to arrive.
If you're ready to go to the Ubuntu download page, click here. You'll see the following:
- First, choose which version of Ubuntu you'd like to download: 6.10 or 6.06,
- Next, select the type of computer you have,
- Then, choose the country you'd like to download from, and finally,
- Click "Start Download."
Save the ISO file to your Desktop and you're ready for Step 2:
Step 2 – Burning the ISO file to a CD
Now that you have the Ubuntu ISO file on your Desktop, the next step is to burn it to a CD.
For this, you will need two things:
- A blank recordable CD, and,
- A CD/DVD burning application
If you do not have a CD/DVD burning application, you can download Infra Recorder for free!
In this post, I will show you how to use Infra Recorder to burn the Ubuntu ISO to a CD.
First, place the blank CD into your CD-ROM drive and open the Infra Recorder software.
Click on Actions > Burn Image:
Next, select the Ubuntu ISO file located on your Desktop:
The next screen should look like the following…Click OK:
Infra Recorder will then burn the Ubuntu ISO file onto the CD:
When it is finished, close Infra Recorder.
Step 3 – Make sure your computer will boot from the CD-ROM drive
Now that you have your CD ready, you need to make sure that your computer will boot from your CD-ROM drive first. In other words, if your computer is configured to boot from your hard drive first, it will skip past your CD-ROM drive and load Windows like it usually does.
To have your computer boot from your CD-ROM drive, you'll have to configure it from the BIOS setup screen. **You will have to restart your computer, so it might be best to either print out these instructions, or write them down.**
I'm going to show you how to configure a Dell desktop. If your computer is a little different, you'll at least know what to look for.
First, when the computer first boots up, and you can see the Dell logo, hit F2 on your keyboard:
Now that you're in BIOS, use the arrow keys on your keyboard to go to Boot Sequence:
Hit the Enter key:
Arrange the drives so that the CD-ROM drive is first. (For example: CD-ROM, Hard Drive, Floppy)
Hit the Enter key:
Hit the Esc key:
Step 4 – Test Driving Linux
You're now ready to try out Ubuntu. Just restart your computer with the CD inside your CD-ROM drive.
Once Ubuntu is loaded, you can:
- Surf the Internet with the Firefox web browser
- Create OpenOffice documents
- Check out how files are organized in Linux (it's a bit different than Windows).
- Work on multiple desktops
- and much more!
Now that you know the process of using a Live CD, you can move beyond Ubuntu and try other Linux distributions. To see a list of distributions that provide a Live CD, click here.
Editor's Note: This post was written by Chris Rossini of Learn Firefox where he writes a visual guide to the Firefox Web Browser with how-to instructions, screenshots, and videos to guide you through the entire process!


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HERE'S A meal for you! I like Christopher Isherwood's description of Ingrid Bergman — she was, he says, not beautiful like Garbo but radiantly appetizing, "her presence was like breakfast on a sunny morning: a clean tablecloth, freshly made coffee, rich cream, deliciously crisp toast." Sounding on a different string, Isherwood that deadpan comedian-documentarian writes of "sandy yellow railway cake," "roast beef and stewed plums and pink soap-cheese" (this in an English pub c. 1939), and a picnic lunch in Hamburg in the 30s included sausages "of the indecently pink kind, the kind full of lumps and gristle, the kind that looks in cross-section like a very old stained glass window." No, I don't think Christopher could have landed a job with the Michelin guides.
Meanwhile, in another book I've been reading, Lord Peter Wimsey the Piccadilly sleuth is dining with a friend at a London club. Time for soup. "Clear?" asks the waiter, standing stiff in his braid, "or thick?" Can you imagine walking into San Francisco's Delfina and asking for a bowl of thick?
YOUR CORRESPONDENT has fallen in love with the pumpkin ravioli one can buy in boxes of 54 at the Lucca delicatessen out at 22nd and Valencia, this in San Francisco of course. Pricing and welcome at this deli are, by the way, the best I've found among the dwindling fraternity of sausage-pasta-olive oil emporiums in the City. But how to sauce them, pray tell. Especially with 324 sitting just offstage in one's freezer! Well, I googled the question and found quite a discussion proceeding on the web. Most of us seemed to agree: a simple brown butter and sage sauce is the most appropriate for these rich and scrumptious objets d'art gastronomiques.
There is a viable alternative, however, an innocent little orange sauce I invented. It's mostly orange juice, a tumbler-full say, with a half jigger of Marsala for bite, a little butter for body, and nutmeg and rosemary if you have it for punctuation. And golden raisins — these top things off very nicely. Recipe for 2: just boil the lot lightly and pour over 36 ravioli. Bonus: this sauce is marvelous, I think, on salmon steaks done briskly in the pan.
And the sauce for spinach ravioli? I found it inadvertently by feeding myself a dozen of said ravioli with brown butter and sage and accompanying this lovely minestran mess with a chicken leg I'd baked for 40 minutes in olive oil and a LOT of lemon juice. Result: the tingly drippings from the chicken when poured over fowl and the already lightly sauced pasta created a new and greater SAUCE of wonderful rich flavor.
BULLETIN! Like a hot rod with special fenders and ultra-chrome hubcaps, our recipe for Grillade des Mariniers du Rhone (see chapter 9) has been tarted up to advantage. Our new suggestion is you add some sliced potatoes and a bit of bacon to the round steak or ribs-over-onions, then bake the full complement to kingdom come and serve with large cannellini beans warmed in a little olive oil and sage and have some mint jelly at the ready.
IT'S SCARCELY news to speak of the wonders of the internet in planning a journey when the screen is full of websites devoted to this-that-and-the-other country inn in France, Italy, wherever. Room after room parades before you, 360 degrees of 'em — should I reserve the one with the four poster, the one with the view, the one with the cute eiderdown? And the menus — what shall I order when I visit the Auberge de Watcha-ma-callit six months hence? Surely that Confit Surprise will still be on the bill of fare.
And this isn't all when it comes to getting-the-picture of exactly what your trip will be like, presuming of course that defective mattresses or obsessive creakings of the plumbing worthy of a haunted house won't be part of the deal. For instance you can go to You Tube and for eight minutes or so watch, yes watch, in real time, the Clermont Ferrand-Marseille express tooling down the Allier River gorge, diesel engine put-putting across your computer screen. Or see a picture, from maybe May 26, 2007, of the station master giving the silvery five-car Le Cevenol the high sign to ease out of Villefort station.
The thought struck me: why, I could save big bucks by staying home and just watching Languedoc roll by on my office screen. But I guess I'd have a little less to tell you afterward. No train strike, no missed connection, no distressed mattress, no Garbo in the corridor. And just how did that confit taste?
SPEAKING OF travel, I see that I neglected in my account of the years 2002-07 to mention that I traveled by train, three trains actually, from eastern Holland to London in '07 — anything to avoid Heathrow! It was a mission of some delicacy; I was consoling a dear friend who'd had the misfortune to develop a crush on an ambivalent woman, even following this intermittent fondler via The Flying Scotsman to Edinburgh, where a beastly but perhaps just conclusion to l'affaire platonique on a dreary streetcorner forced him to crash land out of his preoccupation, in a handy Chinese restaurant yet — it wasn't far from the Robert Louis Stevenson house — a process that took several hours but was apparently totally successful. When I met him at Kings Cross he looked mightily relieved.
A bonus of this novelistic paragraph in the life of a gastronomical tourist is that I chanced to stay in London at Durrants (accent on the first syllable), that low-ceilinged, much-mirrored hotel of unimpeachable eighteenth century provenance just behind the Wallace Collection. A bit pricey, and more bowing-and-scrapin' than I require, but good old St. Margaret's, my Bloomsbury stand, had just closed down — no more "duay boiled eggy" as the Italian waiter would shout, kicking his way through the kitchen door at breakfast — and Durrants proved an enchanting nest.
The lunch in its restaurant was excellent, even if the only sound one could hear was the click-clack-clink of cutlery politely maneuvered by the three or four other people dining in this elegant tomb, a pinstriped gent over there and in the corner wasn't that the Duchess of Denver and some satellite spinster chattering with her sotto voce. But best of all were the afternoon scones served in one or another of the many little panelled sitting rooms lined up like enlarged train compartments down the hall from the reception desk where the bowers-and-scrapers hang out. Such scones! Buttery good and just moist enough not to lose their patrician culinary manners, and with nothing more than currants inside. Yes, these weren't those Gibraltarian rock cakes masquerading as scones in American chain coffee houses.


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Va-Va-Versace: Kate Moss & Giselle Bundchen
Tom Brady continues to be one lucky man, and modeling still has a reigning queen.
Despite a year of controversy, Kate Moss looks at the top of her game in Versace's 2009 Resort campaign.
Moss is snapped looking sun kissed and youthful, donning a cocktail dress adorned in hardware hearts.
Meanwhile Brady's main squeeze Giselle Bundchen looks taught and tanned in a white slip dress and a Versace signature bag.
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Stolen as a child from her large and loving family, and on the run with her mom for more than ten years, Callie has only the barest idea of what normal life might be like. She's never had a home, never gone to school, and has gotten most of her meals from laundromat vending machines.Read more...
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Stolen as a child from her large and loving family, and on the run with her mom for more than ten years, Callie has only the barest idea of what normal life might be like. She's never had a home, never gone to school, and has gotten most of her meals from laundromat vending machines. Her dreams are haunted by memories she'd like to forget completely. But when Callie's mom is finally arrested for kidnapping her, and Callie's real dad whisks her back to what "would" have been her life, in a small town in Florida, Callie must find a way to leave the past behind. She must learn to be part of a family. And she must believe that love--even with someone who seems an improbable choice--is more than just a possibility.
Trish Doller writes incredibly real teens, and this searing story of love, betrayal, and how not to lose your mind will resonate with readers who want their stories gritty and utterly true.
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Not only does Callie have secrets, she is one: she and her mother have been on the run since her parents split up and her mother abducted her. Five then, 17 now, Callie has had many names, and she wears thrift-store T-shirts that transform her into "a Cowboys fan or someone who's attended the Jenkins-Carter family reunion." She can wash her hair in a rest area sink and take care of herself and her erratic mother. Then comes a traffic stop, and suddenly her mother is in police custody, and Callie is meeting the father she barely remembers. Doller (Something Like Normal) makes Callie believably tough, scarred, and loyal, more used to hooking up than actually dating. The setting—the tight-knit, heavily Greek community of Tarpon Springs, Fla.—is nicely specific, and although Callie's family is a bit too perfect and the resolution of whether she will stay in Florida or return to her mother is made too easy, the pleasures of watching Callie grapple with her past, future, and a new love easily outweigh these quibbles. Ages 14–up. Agent: Kate Schafer Testerman, kt literary. (Sept.)


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KIEV – Sergio Aguero scored one goal and helped create another as Manchester City powered to a 3-1 first-leg win over Dynamo Kiev in the last 16 of the Champions League on Wednesday.
Aguero and David Silva's goals gave City a 2-0 cushion at the break before Vitaliy Buyalskiy pulled one back for Dynamo and Yaya Toure secured a valuable third away goal for City.
"It is not finished but playing away and having a two-goal lead is very good," City coach Manuel Pellegrini said. "Maybe when it was 2-1 we had moments of doubt, but then we got the third goal."
Facing a Ukrainian team which had not played competitively since December, Aguero took full advantage of poor Dynamo defending at a corner to score his 15th-minute opener with a simple finish after being left unmarked.
Aguero has now scored eight goals in City's last nine games and 16 in his last 17 Champions League starts. The Argentine also helped to set up City's second, feeding Raheem Sterling with a backheel on the edge of the box. Sterling then crossed low for Silva to score at the far post just before halftime.
Dynamo shook off some of the rust in the second half and struck back in the 59th minute through Buyalskiy, whose shot from 18 meters deflected in off Nicolas Otamendi. That marked the 10th Champions League game in a row in which City has conceded at least one goal.
Buyalskiy's goal breathed new life into the Dynamo team, as well as delighting Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who was watching from the stands with a group of soldiers in a show of support for Ukrainian forces fighting Russian-back separatists in the country's east.
In Wednesday's other game, 10-man PSV Eindhoven held on for a 0-0 draw with Atletico Madrid.


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Lifted South Africa to No.1 in ICC's Test rankings in 2012, a position they will hold regardless of the third Test against Australia.
Average of 8.4 in current series. If he is unable to increase that, it will be the fifth-lowest series average by a South African batsman and the lowest since Daryll Cullinan's 5.2 against Australia in 1994.
Since scoring 68 against India, Smith's Test innings have been: 44, 47, 27no, 10, 4, 9, 14 and 5.


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DUBAI, Jan 12 (Reuters) - China's table tennis federation should give foreign players more access to its coaches to ease the country's stranglehold on the sport and attract more television and sponsor interest, the head of the world governing body said.
In the men's game, Chinese players have won seven of the past eight biennial world championships, while China's women have claimed the last 10 titles.
"It reminds me of 20 years ago when the U.S. was dominating basketball - they (the U.S.) were able to promote the sport elsewhere and bring the top players from other countries to the NBA," said Adham Sharara, president of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).
"Today, the U.S. is still very strong but doesn't dominate like how China dominates our sport."
The Canadian said lesser Chinese preeminence would help attract greater sponsorship and television coverage of table tennis, which has been an Olympic sport since 1988.
Globally, there are 217 national federations, second only to volleyball, but the prize money on offer is a pittance compared with many sports.
The World Tour Grand Finals in Dubai this weekend - table tennis's richest event - had a total cash pot of $878,000 for the men's and women's singles and doubles tournaments. Novak Djokovic, the world number two in men's tennis, earned $1.92 million for winning December's ATP World Tour Finals.
"Even in China itself, the general public is getting tired of seeing China winning all the time," said Sharara.
"We need more co-operation from the Chinese. They're opening the door but ever so slowly. They need to sacrifice to make the others better, even to lose to the others, so the sport becomes more and more interesting.
"I say help us for just five years and then you can go back and close the doors."
Sharara said this help would mainly consist of allowing young players from other countries to train with China's elite players, not just provincial teams, plus access to China's equipment technology, which is superior. The top five men and top four women in the world rankings are all Chinese.
Men's number one Ma Long told Reuters he would welcome foreign players to practise with him.
"Chinese players dominate, so maybe the prize money is a bit low for the other players," said Ma.
He spoke through an interpreter and the lack of foreign language skills among China's players has also made promoting the game more difficult.
"I'm trying to convince the Chinese federation that their top players must speak English, so now they're giving them English courses," said Sharara. "This generation is a little bit too shy, but the next generation, the younger ones, are speaking English already."
This would help sell the sport to broadcasters, he said.
"Also in terms of personality - in China they're seen as different individual personalities. There's the naughty guy, the nice guy, the good-looking guy, but outside China they're all considered the same, just the Chinese team because they don't communicate enough," said Sharara.
Eighteen nations were represented in Dubai, but the men's and women's finals were all-Chinese affairs and foreign players seem resigned to their fate.
"We Europeans have a tough job because it's almost impossible to beat all the Chinese," said Natalia Partyka, 24, a three-times Paralympics champion who also plays in able-bodied competition.
"I think the next 10 or 20 years will be the same, still the Chinese will win everything," the Pole added.
Table tennis also faces a new rival, with Britain's Matchroom Sport staging the $100,000 World Championship of Ping Pong in London earlier this month, in which players use old-fashioned sandpaper bats.
These do not allow players to generate the spin associated with top-level table tennis, which the organisers claim is a virtue.
"Table tennis is not really watchable and I'm not sure the people who run it realise that, whereas ping pong most certainly is," said Luke Riches, Matchroom Sport media director.
"Table tennis is a huge sport played around the world with a governing body. We're not trying to compete with that, we're just trying to provide something entertaining." (Reporting by Matt Smith in Dubai; editing by Justin Palmer)


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French President Francois Hollande on Saturday told AFP he has split with his longstanding partner Valerie Trierweiler after his affair with an actress nearly 20 years his junior.
The announcement came after a day of rumours in the French media that Hollande would formally announce the rupture on Saturday, on the eve of a visit by Trierweiler to India for charity work.
Saying he was speaking as a private individual and not as head of state as the matter concerned his private life, Hollande told AFP over the phone: "I wish to make it known that I have ended my partnership with Valerie Trierweiler."
Trierweiler, 48, had been convalescing at a presidential residence in Versailles outside Paris after leaving hospital last Saturday, where she was treated for what was described as fatigue brought on by press revelations of Hollande's affair with 41-year-old actress Julie Gayet.
Trierweiler is due to fly to Mumbai on Sunday for a charity trip organised by French relief organisation Action Against Hunger (ACF), in her first public appearance since the scandal broke two weeks ago.
An ACF spokeswoman told AFP the trip "was confirmed this morning by Ms. Trierweiler's office."
Hollande, 59, announced his separation from Segolene Royal, a senior member of his Socialist party and a presidential candidate in 2007, just after she lost the election to Nicolas Sarkozy.
He then started living openly with Trierweiler. Though she is not married to Hollande, she assumed the role of First Lady at official functions after Hollande's election in 2012.
There was no immediate comment from Trierweiler after the announcement of the split.
On Saturday, the popular Le Parisien daily carried a story on its website declaring "C'est Fini" (It's Over), adding that the Elysee Palace would release a statement shortly.
"Hollande, who took the initiative for the separation, wanted to make it official before Valerie Trierweiler's departure for India," the Journal du Dimanche weekly said on its website.
After Hollande's confirmation of the split, Le Parisien said on its website that Trierweiler had left the presidential retreat near the chateau of Versailles on Saturday for their apartment in Paris's middle-class 15th arrondissement.
The Journal du Dimanche said the couple had worked out the modalities of the split at a lunch on Thursday.
Hollande had promised at a mid-January news conference that he would publicly define what relationship, if any, he and Trierweiler had before a February 11 state visit to the United States.
US President Barack Obama "looks forward to seeing President Hollande as planned," National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden told AFP on Saturday, without further comment.
Hollande's announcement comes after a spat between Trierweiler and her lawyer Frederique Giffard, who said Thursday that her client was aware that a "clarification" on her tangled situation was due.
But Trierweiler reacted furiously to the lawyer's remarks and chastened Giffard for speaking without her permission.
Trierweiler is a glamorous, twice-divorced career journalist who has three children of her own and has been Hollande's partner for the best part of a decade.
She emerged into the spotlight before he was elected president, and warned that she would not be a wallflower, saying in April 2012: "I have character, they cannot muzzle me."
That was quickly proven when Trierweiler tweeted her support in legislative elections for an independent rival of Royal, someone with whom the first lady did not have warm relations.
The tweet went down badly in France, and Trierweiler's reputation suffered, with many deeming her somewhat arrogant. A recent poll said she was the least-liked French First Lady in modern history.
After Hollande's election, Trierweiler cut down on her work at the French magazine Paris-Match and engaged in charitable activities.
Trierweiler has not commented on the latest scandal since French glossy Closer broke news of Hollande's affair with Gayet on January 10, splashing photos of a man resembling Hollande arriving for alleged trysts at a flat near the Elysee Palace on a scooter.
She only tweeted after being released from hospital on January 19 to thank her supporters.
Hollande is the second French president to split from his partner while in office. In 2007, his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy divorced his wife Cecilia and married former supermodel and singer Carla Bruni the following year.
Hollande, who is France's least popular president according to opinion polls, has never denied an affair with Gayet but has so far steadfastly refused to answer questions about his love life, simply saying that he and Trierweiler were going through a "difficult time."


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Lara Reynolds had experienced no luck in finding casual wait staff for a Christmas party at her Brighton home in Melbourne until she stumbled across the website of Occasional Butler.
"It looked new and interesting and . . . I got the gist that you could get people pretty economically," Reynolds said.
The venture is one of three local online start-ups established in the past year that match customers with workers to complete odd jobs, from picking up the dry cleaning or fixing a dodgy gate.
On Occasional Butler and its rival Airtasker, applicants bid for jobs posted by customers. The websites take a 15 per cent cut of the amount paid.
A third start-up, Sidekicker, has a different approach, with all jobs charged at $29 an hour. The workers are vetted by Sidekicker and the website takes about $10 an hour.
After posting her request, Mrs Reynolds received a number of applicants and ended up choosing two workers, a university student and a traveller, who served food and cocktails for her 60 guests.
She paid the workers about $100 each. Both were "fab" and the fashion stylist will use the service in future to find a temporary nanny for her two children and workers to do other jobs around the house.
Mrs Reynolds said the service appealed because, after posting a request, the applicants came to her and there was no "trawling around and calling a lot of companies."
Commonwealth Bank senior economist Michael Workman said the trend for households to outsource personal and household chores was evident from an increase in service-based employment.
"Time-wise, there's this pressure to do the things that are usually done but, particularly for middle to higher income earners, they place more value on their time and they find it cheaper or convenient to use somebody else to do the cleaning, mow the lawns or even walk the dog," he said.
Airtasker has matched workers to $600,000 worth of jobs posted in its first year of operation.
Its chief executive Tim Fung said the "pain point" being solved by the service – time-poor professionals not being able to get their ironing done – was not a new phenomenon but accelerated by technology.
Concerns about trusting anonymous people on the web were being solved by social media and feedback systems, while the issue of posting jobs quickly while busy was solved by mobile apps, he said.
"The process is becoming a lot more friction-less," Mr Fung said.
As well as tapping into the consumer demands, Occasional Butler co-founder Erz Imam said the start-ups also served a "thirsty workforce who are genuinely under-utilised" and the workers were more likely to pick up jobs that might be too minor for a tradesperson.
One trend that all three start-ups had noticed was the enthusiasm with which businesses had embraced the e-commerce platforms.
"The costs of businesses are quite high . . . and they don't want the burden of a full-time employee," Sidekicker co-founder Thomas Amos said. "Businesses are struggling to get quality short-term help. It's a gap that temping agencies are not filling."
Maddie Abitbol, the Victorian state manager of fashion brand Leona Edmiston (where Occasional Butler co-founder Jodie Imam worked previously) has posted jobs on the website for work to be done in stores, such as polishing floors and putting up shelves.
Ms Abitbol said the alternative was to "spend so much time online Googling all over the place, trying to find shop fitters or handymen, which is frustrating."
"It just makes my life easier and gives me time to focus on what I need to focus on at work," she said. "It allows [workers] to source me rather than me source them."
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Hello all,
This is a query I've been thinking about for quite some time that I would like to optimize to run efficiently in MySQL. It began life in an ASP/Access app about 12 years ago that ran a straight (no joins) query against an Access database of contacts returning about 600 rows. That was saved in an array which was then looped and each row ran another query against a couple of tables that pulled out yearly grade information. It's not the most efficient way of doing it but it worked.
Now we're using a more sophisticated CRM on PHP/MySQL called CiviCRM and I'm rebuilding this part of the system as a custom plugin.
In order to achieve the same results as the old system, I've duplicated what we had originally done to get a baseline to start with. It's dead slow compared to the old ASP/Access version so I have some work to do.
Here's how I'm approaching it:
I have a main query to pull in the contact information as follows:
$sql = "SELECT contact.id
, contact.last_name
, contact.first_name
, contact.external_identifier
, contact.user_unique_id
, membership.membership_type_id
, membership.id AS membership_id
, membership.join_date AS member_since
, membership_type.name AS member_type
FROM contact
INNER JOIN membership
ON contact.id = membership.contact_id
INNER JOIN membership_type
ON membership.membership_type_id = membership_type.id
WHERE contact.first_name IS NOT NULL
AND contact.last_name IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY contact.last_name";
The CRM has a database abstraction layer that allows me to get a data access object and I can either loop in into an array or loop and execute a query for each row in my main query. I've found it is slightly more efficient looping directly from the dataset so here's how that part works (I've skipped a bunch of the html cruft involved to keep the concept from getting muddled up):
Anything in the code below that is prefixed with $dao-> is a value from the results of the query above and specific to the row that is in focus during that iteration of the While loop.
// Execute the query above and return a dataset object
$dao = CRM_Core_DAO::executeQuery($sql);
// START HTML string variable to hold a table of results $report_table = "
, etc..";
while( $dao->fetch( ) ) {
$sql = "SELECT professional_development_categories.id AS id
, professional_development_categories.category AS category
, SUM(professional_development_activities.credits) AS credits
, professional_development_categories.minimum
, professional_development_categories.maximum
, professional_development_categories.description
FROM professional_development_categories
LEFT OUTER JOIN professional_development_activities
ON professional_development_activities.category_id = professional_development_categories.id
AND professional_development_activities.contact_id = " . $dao->id . "
AND EXTRACT(YEAR FROM professional_development_activities.credit_date) = " . $_SESSION["report_year"] . "
GROUP BY professional_development_categories.id";
// Populate the variable that holds the HTML table of results
$report_table .= '
';
$report_table .= '' . $dao->last_name . '	';
$report_table .= '' . $dao->first_name . '	';
$report_table .= '' . $dao->member_type . '	';
$report_table .= '' . $dao->member_since . '	';
// Execute the sub query for each row in the main query to get this years scores for that individual
$subdao = CRM_Core_DAO::executeQuery($sql);
$total_credits = 0;
$sub_cells = "";
while( $subdao->fetch( ) ) {
$total_credits += abs($subdao->credits);
$sub_cells .= '' . abs($subdao->credits) . '	';
$report_table .= '' . $total_credits . '	';
$report_table .= $sub_cells;
$report_table .= '
';
// END HTML to create a table of results $report_table .= "
, etc..";
So hopefully that isn't too convoluted and makes some sense. I'm looking to make some improvements to it and speed it up. I'd like to combine the queries but I'm not sure how I can do that.
Ok, so to try and improve this query, I've been playing in PHPMyAdmin running some queries. I figured the first thing I could try is to add the sum of all of the credits from the activities table. So I added that field and LEFT JOIN-ed the table as follows:
SELECT civicrm_contact.id
, civicrm_contact.last_name
, civicrm_contact.first_name
, civicrm_contact.external_identifier
, civicrm_contact.user_unique_id
, civicrm_membership.membership_type_id
, civicrm_membership.id AS membership_id
, civicrm_membership.join_date AS member_since
, civicrm_membership_type.name AS member_type
# ADD Credits
, civi_cpd_activities.credits AS total_credits
FROM civicrm_contact
# Left Join the table with some criteria
LEFT JOIN civi_cpd_activities
ON civi_cpd_activities.contact_id = civicrm_contact.id AND EXTRACT(YEAR FROM civi_cpd_activities.credit_date) = " . $_SESSION["report_year"] . "
INNER JOIN civicrm_membership
ON civicrm_contact.id = civicrm_membership.contact_id
INNER JOIN civicrm_membership_type
ON civicrm_membership.membership_type_id = civicrm_membership_type.id
WHERE civicrm_contact.first_name IS NOT NULL
AND civicrm_contact.last_name IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY civicrm_contact.last_name
Now the problem with this is that it gives me a new row for each civi_cpd_activities.credits and duplicates all the other info about the individual. I would like to SUM(civi_cpd_activities.credits) but for some reason that just gives me a single result. I don't quite understand why it's doing that so I need to figure that out.
It's still a very slow query to run. PHPMyAdmin responded with the following results: Showing rows 0 - 29 ( 684 total, Query took 8.0574 sec). I've written some pretty ugly queries but this one is really slow and I haven't even gotten to the part where I have to pull out the sum of each score category and list that out.
Just for fun, I thought I'd try a sub-query for that summed field and it seems to be 1 second faster than the field with the left join. Still pretty slow for such a seemingly simple query:
SELECT civicrm_contact.id
, civicrm_contact.last_name
, civicrm_contact.first_name
, civicrm_contact.external_identifier
, civicrm_contact.user_unique_id
, civicrm_membership.membership_type_id
, civicrm_membership.id AS membership_id
, civicrm_membership.join_date AS member_since
, civicrm_membership_type.name AS member_type
, (SELECT SUM(civi_cpd_activities.credits) FROM civi_cpd_activities WHERE civi_cpd_activities.contact_id = civicrm_contact.id AND EXTRACT(YEAR FROM civi_cpd_activities.credit_date) = " . $_SESSION['report_year'] . ") As total_credits
FROM civicrm_contact
INNER JOIN civicrm_membership
ON civicrm_contact.id = civicrm_membership.contact_id
INNER JOIN civicrm_membership_type
ON civicrm_membership.membership_type_id = civicrm_membership_type.id
WHERE civicrm_contact.first_name IS NOT NULL
AND civicrm_contact.last_name IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY civicrm_contact.last_name
By the way, the activities table conatians 17,000 rows of data from the last 12 years so there is some work for the database. The query when run without looking at the activities table takes well under a second to run:
Showing rows 0 - 29 ( 634 total, Query took 0.0075 sec)
With the sub-query:
Showing rows 0 - 29 ( 634 total, Query took 7.3675 sec)
I just had an idea... What about creating a temp table of only the activities results from the year in question and then running the query against that table.
SELECT c.id
, c.last_name
, c.first_name
, c.external_identifier
, c.user_unique_id
, m.membership_type_id
, m.id AS membership_id
, m.join_date AS member_since
, mt.name AS member_type
, a.sum_credits
FROM civicrm_contact AS c
JOIN civicrm_membership AS m
ON m.contact_id = c.id
JOIN civicrm_membership_type AS mt
ON mt.id = m.membership_type_id
WHERE c.first_name IS NOT NULL
AND c.last_name IS NOT NULL
JOIN ( SELECT pda.contact_id
, SUM(pda.credits) AS sum_credits
FROM professional_development_activities AS pda
WHERE pda.credit_date >= '2014-01-01'
AND pda.credit_date < '2015-01-01'
BY pda.contact_id ) AS a
ON a.contact_id = c.id
BY c.last_name
notice the two dates -- you would replace these with run-time parameters just like you used to have a parameter for "report_year"
the idea is that pda.credit_date would have an index, and this range test (starting with first day of year, up to but not including first day of next year) will allow the index to be utilized, whereas your EXTRACT function would not
Fantastic! Thanks Rudy. I'll run this and see how it improves the speed of things.
Holy smokes, what a difference! I had to move the WHERE clause to the end of the query just before the ORDER BY but the query runs lightning fast:
Showing rows 570 - 599 ( 634 total, Query took 0.0282 sec)
So if I understand correctly the EXTRACT function prevented my query from being able to create or use an index. Is that right? If so, that is definitely a function to be weary of.
My next trick will be to loop out the total credits for each category in the activities table for this time period. I'll give that a go on my own. Hopefully I won't have to come running for help and I'll post my results when I have something. This is amazingly fast now!
queries do not create indexes, you have to do that yourself, using ALTER TABLE ADD INDEX or CREATE INDEX
using ~any~ function on a column will negate the use of any index on that column
did your credit_date column already have an index, or did you just create one now?


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In Lithuania: Polls open at Presidential Runoff election
Lithuanians voted Sunday in a run-off election that pits the Baltic country's popular president against an ex-Premier and stunt pilot.
The country's 2,015 polling stations opened their doors to the 2.7 million registered voters at 7:00 am (local time) and were to close 13 hours later at 8:00 pm (local time) with preliminary results expected a few hours later.
Incumbent Valdas Adamkus was expected to easily win a second term in the presidential vote, given his success in guiding the ex-Soviet republic toward entry into NATO and the European Union (EU).
Sunday's run-off election was called after Adamkus failed to get 50% support in a first round of voting last month. He faces the second vote-getter in the earlier vote, former prime minister and Vilnius mayor Rolandas Paksas.
Nearly 2.7 million of Lithuania's residents are eligible to vote in the presidential election. It is the third time voters have elected a president since the country regained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, according to AP.
The new president is expected to take office at the end of February. (Albawaba.com)
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...organizing my music collection. And when I say collection I mean Spotify account.
Movies is tough...can we narrow it down by category?
I'm not caught up on any of these shows...Dexter, Homeland, the League
The top plays on my phone this week are: Radiohead, Of Monsters and Men, and Jay-Z
I can eat anything. I take pride in my iron stomach. But if I had to make a choice: Middle Eastern food, Japanese, italian
My recliner
My sense of humor
My curiosity
My music
My phone
...where my next good story will come from. The thing that helps me get up every morning is anticipating all the random quirky stuff that can happen to you in a day that's either amazing, inspiring, or hilarious. Amazo-spira-hilarity.
...my strategy for escaping and thriving in the upcoming zombie apocalypse.
...future vacation spots. I would love to travel more once my schedule allows. As of now, my top places I would like to visit but haven't been to yet:
1. Australia
2. Central Africa (Tanzania/Rwanda/Kenya...)
3. Glacier National Park
4. Germany
5. South Africa
6. Alaska
7. Patagonia
8. India
9. Morocco
10. Austin, TX
When I was very young, I was caught shop lifting a pack of baseball cards. I never saw my dad so mad!
Don't worry. I have long changed my klepto tendencies since then!
Bonus private thing:...my mother made me take figure skating lessons as a kid. One year of pure embarassment and torture. I begged my dad to get me out of there and start karate!


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I am very family oriented, so I tend to spend a lot of time with them, whether its a birthday party or finding them for a beer on a Friday night.
My job keeps me very busy but is a ton of fun.
Shows: Suits, Modern Family, Dexter, any of those dumb Do It Yourself shows, I am also hooked on Pawn Stars and Storage Wars.
Music: I admit it, I do listen to country. Also enjoy music from the 80's.
Food: Willing to try almost anything at least once, but definitely Mexican, Sushi, anything home cooked.
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Olivia Palermo Wears Topshop to Couture Fashion Week
Found! Olivia Palermo's Little Yellow Dress
Layering on tribal necklaces, and finishing with a metallic oxford peep-toe — and bright poppy polish — Olivia Palermo lent her signature style whimsy to a pretty Topshop frock while taking in the couture shows in Paris. We love how she amps the fun of her sunny little dress with gold accents and brighter jewels. Feeling inspired? Just shop our editor's picks below for the same Topshop dress and all the cool details.
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Wedding Frequently Asked Questions - Door County Weddings | The Landmark Resort
Do you require a deposit?
We do require a non-refundable deposit for all weddings. The amount, usually in the $500 - $1000 range, depends on the particular function space booked. Please speak with your wedding consultant for further details.
What types of linens, napkins and centerpieces are included?
White tablecloths and napkins are provided. Skirting will be done in white for all weddings. We are able to provide a square mirror and hurricane with 12" tapered candle per table to enhance any centerpiece you choose.
How early will the room be available to set up the day of the wedding?
The Egg Harbor Room is normally ready for your decorator, florist, band or DJ to set up an average of two hours prior to the reception. Other rooms will vary. Please discuss specific times with your wedding consultant/catering manager.
May we offer a choice of two entrees to our guests?
Yes, all our packages offer two entrees. For a third and/or fourth option (i.e. - vegetarian) there will be an additional charge. Remember to ask your guests for their selection as part of your invitation. We do ask that you identify on your place cards which entree each guest has selected.
Can we bring in our own wedding cake? Are we allowed to bring in food and beverage items?
Yes, you can bring in your own wedding cake. As part of our Ultimate or Diamond Packages ... we will cut and serve your cake at no additional charge to you. The Landmark Resort will provide all food and beverage. We take pride in adhering to all Federal, State and Local regulations to ensure proper food preparation and beverage service. Exceptions are sometimes made for certain ethnic items that are typically served at weddings (i.e. - Homemade cookies for a sweet table for an Italian wedding).
Does the Landmark Resort offer a special lodging rate for our guests?
We do offer a discounted rate for your guests. Speak with your wedding consultant/catering manager. Our rates fluctuate throughout the year. The bride and groom will receive a one night complimentary suite when booking the Ultimate or Diamond wedding packages - utilizing the Egg Harbor Room with certain minimums.
Do you hold ceremonies at the resort?
Wedding ceremonies can be held at the Landmark Resort. We have both indoor and outdoor venues. The Flagship Garden, pool decks and terrace have all been utilized for outdoor ceremonies. Our Terrace has an artificial waterfall and a beautiful view of the bay. Your wedding consultant/catering manager can provide further details.


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UK dentist Joyce Trail was handed a seven-year jail sentence for cheating Britain's National Health Service (NHS) out of the equivalent of roughly $2.25 million, reported SKY News.
Let's put that 1.4 million pound figure in context: it would have provided life-saving drugs to 51 people suffering from leukemia, according to presiding Judge Peter Carr, reported BBC News.
Yikes. It's kind of amazing she wasn't caught earlier -- apparently, she submitted claims for more than 100 dead patients, not to mention a bunch of duplicate claims, according to BBC.
In total, the 50-year-old dentist handed in a whopping 7,000 invoices for work she didn't do between 2006 and 2009, said investigators, according to SKY.
More from GlobalPost: Yoda lives! As a new deep-sea worm, that is
At the ruling on Friday, Judge Carr accused Trail of being motivated by pure greed, said BBC. Her 33-year-old daughter was also sentenced to two years for helping her mother.
She was given six-and-a-half years on charges of conspiracy to defraud and an additional six months for "perverting the course of justice," according to BBC.
The case came out of a random NHS check on Trail's office, monitoring that raised several red flags and prompted closer scrutiny of the Birmingham dentist's activities.
The result? Fraud on "an industrial scale," reported SKY, saying investigators pored over 85,000 documents and 14,000 exhibits involved in the case.
Trail conned the system back in 2004 but was found out and told to repay the equivalent of roughly $500,000.
According to Judge Carr, the 2004 case paved the way for further deceit. He told Trail, "not wishing to forgo the lifestyle to which you by then had become accustomed, you deliberately set out to ensure that you did not," adding, "[y]ou knew, as a result of that investigation, exactly what was required to try and ensure that your fraud was not discovered," according to BBC.


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Listening Ahead: Upcoming Releases for April 2013
28 Mar 2013 // 6:10 PM
April's releases feature highly anticipated returns years in the making, new work by critical faves of a current vintage, and reissues of alt-rock touchstones. Check out the early word on new albums by the Knife and Kurt Vile, as well as the 20th anniversary edition of the Breeders' Last Splash.
In Every Direction: An Interview with Junip
24 Apr 2011 // 5:00 PM
Where José González confesses to yawning on record, and the band decides to keep it in the mix.
Junip: Junip
24 Apr 2013 // 6:04 PM
Like José González's voice, Junip's self-titled second full-length rarely rises above atmospheric soft rock adequacy.
Junip: Fields
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Suma Walking Group – Digley reservoir
Suma is a great community to be part of and work in and as a part of this I decided recently to set up the Suma Walking Group – a growing band of like minded individuals who enjoy getting together in the great outdoors one Sunday each month.
Our First Walk – Digley reservoir
Last Sunday's walk from Digley reservoir in the heart of the beautiful Holme Valley close to Holmfirth took us on to on Saddleworth Moor and definitely blew the cobwebs away particularly when we reached the top of the infamous Black Hill (much more accessible since the laying of the stone flagged path – and a great use for the heavy stone flags from the nearby redundant textile mills).
It was a chilly but dry and occasionally sunny afternoon with terrific views back across Holmfirth, Huddersfield and Emley Moor – we could almost see the cooling towers of Drax power station near Pontefract – not a pretty sight at any time but a testament to the extent of the view on a clear day.
There were seven of us in total and we all thoroughly enjoyed the walk except maybe Rhubarb the dog who might have preferred to spend the afternoon asleep on the sofa!!


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Did you see what we've got down there???
If there's a movie with an animal in it, I'll watch it. In addition to being funny and/or heartwarming, most kids films contain a message, about learning to love yourself, being courageous, or that you can achieve whatever you set your mind to. But do they have a responsibility to teach? Normally I'd say no, but two recent releases, Barnyard: The Original Party Animals and How to Eat Fried Worms, venture into some murky territory.
After reading this article, I was excited to see Barnyard. I mean, when was the last time animals, or even people, discussed the difference between vegetarians and vegans on film? Well, lesson-wise, this movie's a roller coaster. There is the usual poetic license: The animals walk on two legs when the farmer isn't looking. And flat-out inaccuracies: The male cows have udders.
Then again, it's just a fun animated film, right? Maybe not. Barnyard raises some AR issues, which made me think the filmmakers were interested in getting some real information out there—otherwise why bring them up, right? On the positive side, there's a dartboard with Colonel Sanders' face on it, the tables are turned when the cows go "boy tipping," and none of the animals is caged (though that could just be pro-farming propaganda, reinforcing the fairy tale that all cows and chickens roam freely and that they happily provide us with milk, cheese, and eggs).
As for the discussion about whether the farmer is vegan—does he eat "nothing with a face"? No eggs or dairy?—it's so fast, there's no way a kid unfamiliar with veg*nism could follow it, never mind learn anything. And in any case, the animals drink at a milk and honey bar and order pizza, so the vegan agenda obviously wasn't foremost in the filmmakers' minds. And then there's the fact that Ben the Cow—the dad of Otis, the film's protagonist—is voiced by Sam Elliott, a spokesman for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association….
The wincing doesn't stop there. Freddie the Ferret sees chicken legs where there are hens. Pip the Mouse jumps back and forth on the bellies of Pig the Pig and Otis the Cow, naming the cuts of meat the animals represent as he goes: hamburger, chorizo, rump roast, pork chop. And comedian Root the Rooster verbally jabs at the turkeys in his audience with jokes about cranberry sauce, dead turkeys walking, and the fact that while we all know we're going to die someday, not everyone knows when, at which point he turns to one turkey and says, "Thanksgiving!" Yeesh.
And let's not forget the coyotes. Billed as ruthless and dangerous, they are skinny, scary creatures that resemble horror movie werewolves. The farm animals live in fear of them, and the fence surrounding the farm is supposed to keep them safe. But when the coyotes manage to make off with some hens and a chick, and Dag the Coyote tells Otis that a few missing animals here and there is the natural order of things—which, while not pretty, is the truth—the coyotes are painted as monsters to be fended off with bats (and of course, when the inevitable confrontations do arise, there's not even a drop of blood).
So what about the mommies and daddies of the kids who go to see Barnyard? Is it okay for them to take Maddy the Chick home and cook her for dinner? Should they be fended off with bats? While kids may leave the theater thinking coyotes are bad, I don't think any of them would refuse a trip to McDonald's for some Chicken McNuggets based on what they saw or heard.
And then there's How to Eat Fried Worms. Based on the popular book by Thomas Rockwell, HTEFW is the story of one boy's attempt to face down a bully by accepting his dare to eat worms. I guess the intended lesson is about being brave. But what about not being cruel? Do we really want to teach kids that the way to deal with being pushed around is to take out your hurt on an even littler guy?
According to the author of this review, HTEFW is "an easygoing entertainment in which a sensible message about growing up also rationalizes the abuse of power. However lightly played, this is, after all, a film in which children learn to stand up for themselves, and for one another, by killing animals. Yeah, yeah, we're talking worms, sure. But the lesson remains the same, whether it's an invertebrate squirming on the grill or a puppy. On the page, Mr. Rockwell's humor produces hoots. ('Tomorrow I'll roll the crawler in cornmeal and fry it. Like a trout.') But transposed to the big screen, yuck! No worms may have been harmed in the making of this film, but it's unlikely the under-age audience will care."
And that's what scares me. Not every book, play, or movie should have to be Babe, a hugely funny, sometimes sad, and ultimately uplifting film that managed to teach kids about the animal-food connection and inspired a lot of them to stop eating bacon, at least for a while. But I wish more of them were. Because until people—and kids—know enough to make humane choices, I hate seeing them encouraged to make harmful ones.
At one point in Barnyard, Ben tells Otis, "A strong man stands up for himself; a stronger man stands up for others." I agree. And "others" should include all creatures, no matter how slimy or small.
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Officers were called to Tire Depot Tuesday morning after an employee came into work and found what he thought was a homemade explosive device.
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The Newton County Recreation Commission presented the Newton County Board of Commissioners with a proposed ordinance that would prohibit the use of tobacco products at county parks and recreation facilities.
Covington native Tyler Crook stands proud as a man who believes in sacrificing for others. The 21-year-old Marine will serve as a Towed Artillery Systems Technician and lead as a gunner for convoy security operations for his upcoming deployment before the end of the year.
Santa's Workshop has returned to Ramsey's Furniture Annex again this year.
The Southern Heartland Art Gallery hopes to deck the halls with holiday paintings as they invite artists of all ages to the gallery for several workshops and classes focused on painting holiday themed paintings.
Covington's Festival of Trees is back, and residents once again are able to bid on a variety of pre-decorated Christmas trees courtesy of area nonprofits and businesses.
The city looks to replace about 27 miles of waterlines under their Waterline Replacement Program.Covington City Council approved for grant writer Randy Conner to apply for a loan for $5,981,115.25 with the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority under the State Revolving Fund to replace aging water lines in the city's water system; and approved for Richard Aiken with Rindt-McDuff Associates to assist with the engineering for the project.
Downtown Covington is shining a little more after the installation of new lights around the square.
The Newton County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved accepting a $21 million, low-interest state loan for the construction of the long-proposed Bear Creek Reservoir and spending $2 million to have an engineering firm to design the reservoir's dam.
Snapping Shoals EMC recently donated $5,000 to the Project ReNeWal domestic violence shelter for women and families. The donated funds come from SSEMC's unclaimed capital recovery credits. The shelter building was gutted earlier this year after a sprinkler malfunction dumped 18,000 gallons of water and ruined all the shelter's donated supplies for families. Pictured, from left: Project ReNeWal executive director Vickie Stephenson receives a check from Snapping Shoals EMC's manager of member services Danny Stone.
Anyone who knows Andy Copeland's story would know how thankful he is for his daughter's health, but Wednesday morning, Copeland came to Conyers to share a Thanksgiving message of hope that would touch any heart.
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Rated 5 / 5 stars
Quite awesome.
There are very few songs that I'm willing to give 10s to in reviews; usually, there's some sort of weak portion or poorly chosen sound that prevents me from doing that. (For example, even Waterflame's "-Village up north-", another of my favorite songs on this site, got a 9.) This song has no such handicap (which is especially impressive for a song that's 5:37). The syncopated portion from 2:07 to 2:31 was especially cool, due in part to the leading sound you used at 2:19. The way the song tends to alternate between heavy sawlike tunes such as at 3:11 and light, high-pitched leading melodies against the heavy background such as those occurring at 1:14 was excellent. You used a perfectly varied palette of sounds, and I literally cannot think of any significant criticism, which is a rarity.
Wow, I'm really happy you feel that way!
I'm always a big advocate (did I use that word right? :P) of change ups myself, so it's very nice to hear that some of the parts where that happened are appreciated. <3
Thanks again for the really kind words! <3
Rated 5 / 5 stars
Sorry, never played the game..
.. But that doesn't make this any less AWESOMEcake :3 Love it and badass part from 2.05! Not that I didn't love it before that, but that part made me smile!(I love it when that happens) I'll get this one stuck on my brain in no-time :] Thanks for another osum audio submission, NT :D
no worries haha, not many i know played the game aside from myself lol. I'm happy you liked that part! It was a big risk and I'd never done anything like that before, but i'm glad it turned out the way it did. ;)
You're totally welcome, SilentMerch! Thanks for the review. <3
Rated 5 / 5 stars
It is true that I haven't heard of this game...
But this... this music is extremely good, as expected from you. I don't have a lot of things to say about it though, except for how good it is.
And Mortal Kombat movies... now I see why some tunes sounds familiar.
Thanks! I'm really happy to hear that you liked it, even if you don't know the source. :D
And yes, haha, if you check out some of their songs on YouTube you can really hear it's in their style. xD
Rated 5 / 5 stars
Never played the game, but watched it on Youtube
You are the first artist to make a song better than the original. That's hard to do. I can just wonder what would happen if you took Nobuo Umetsu's music and went a level beyond him, that will be mind blowing, and probably your hardest task, so it's up to you. Either way you make great music and I have been a long time fan of yours and Paragon X9
Haha thank you! And I could never out-do Nobuo's music, he's a master at everything he does XD. My hardest task indeed.. XD
Thank you very much for the support, and the review! <3
Rated 5 / 5 stars
You never make bad songs, and this is no different. :D
Aww thank you haha! That's very nice of you to say. <3


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the staff were really lovely, the place was really clean, we stayed in the annexxe bit which was nice but we were away from everyone else. The other guests weren't particularly inviting though, which made us leave as we didn't feel we could really be part of the group as such.
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Baku, Azerbaijan, March 26
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A bus has overturned in the Talaiya region of Iran's Khuzestan province resulting in the deaths of 11 people, Iranian Mehr News agency reported on March 26.
Some 19 people were injured as a result of the road accident. All the injured were rushed to hospitals in Kirman, Ahvaz and Susangerd.
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Sydney City News
Welcome to Sydney City News October 2013
This newsletter will let you know about the latest events, programs and initiatives delivered by the City of Sydney.
Lord Mayor's message
Read the message from Lord Mayor Clover Moore.
Sydney bells ring again
The much-loved bells of Sydney's 140-year-old clocktower are ringing again after a careful restoration by some of Australia's leading heritage experts.
Getting the best for our City
Cities are an enduring legacy. Great design in both buildings and public spaces encourages imagination, innovation, inspiration and pride – creating a city that people want to live and work in, as well as visit.
And working for better solutions
Since 2008, around $9.4 billion worth of quality development has been determined by the City – transforming housing preferences and employment practices.
Building our economy
The City's new draft economic development strategy provides a long-term plan for strengthening the city's economic output – currently valued at more than $100 billion per year – and supporting the 22,000 businesses and 435,000 workers that call our city home.
New city creative hub
Following the success of the City's creative spaces program on Oxford Street, two Council-owned properties at 101-111 and 113-115 William Street have been turned into affordable work spaces.
Supporting Sydney start ups
Across Sydney, our creative entrepreneurs and tech talent are building innovative businesses our city needs for a long-term sustainable economy.
Getting Sydney moving again
The NSW Government recently released its Sydney City Centre Access Strategy. The plan balances competing demands for limited city centre road space, and delivers better public transport options while reducing congestion and providing a better deal for pedestrians.
Art and About Sydney
Art and About Sydney is one of Sydney's favourite public art events where every street, laneway, building site, intersection and thoroughfare in our city is a canvas for creation and storytelling.
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31,600 City of Sydney residents are on their bikes every week! To celebrate Sydney's growing love affair with bikes, we're hosting the Sydney Rides Festival.
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The Westminster Fire Station is an LCFD station in the neighborhood of Westminster in Algonquin. It is located on the intersection of Frankfort Ave and Kunzite St, near the Westminster Police Station and next to a 60 Diner. It is based on Engine 47 of the FDNY.
Unlike certain other fire stations in Liberty City, a fire truck does not spawn here.


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This is a collection of both landscapes and wildlife pictures I have been fortunate enough to have taken over the past three years. There are pictures from Alberta Canada and the Canadian Rockies, Glacier National Park, The Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Park, The Oregon and California Coasts and Yosemite National Park, Hawaii, Alaska, Bosque de Apache, New Mexico and many pictures from around Washington State.
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'Shaq-less' Terps hold off Bahamas All-Stars
Guardian Sports Editor
Published: Aug 07, 2013
To the dismay of many, the star attraction didn't suit up on Tuesday night because of a strained muscle in his lower back but the fans in attendance were still treated to a dandy of a game between the Maryland Terrapins and The Bahamas All-Stars.
The all-stars gave the NCAA Division I school all they could handle, even taking a second half lead at one point in the game last night, but they simply ran out of gas down the stretch to fall 92-84 on Day Five of the Bahamas Basketball Federation's (BBF) 2013 'Summer of Thunder' at the Kendal GL Isaacs National Gymnasium.
Quite a number of fans at the gym showed up to see Terps sophomore center Shaquille 'Shaq' Cleare, a native of North Andros here in The Bahamas. However, Cleare was restricted to bench duty due to tightness in his lower back. He is expected to miss both of Maryland's remaining games on the 'Summer of Thunder' schedule.
"I'm just glad to be home. It's just a great opportunity to be home - for my university to be here, and to play in front of the Bahamian fans," said Cleare last night. "I'm a little disappointed that I didn't get to play, but I have to save my back for the future. I'll have a chance in the future to play in front on my family and in front of the Bahamian fans, and I'm looking forward to it, whenever that day comes."
The Bahamas All-Stars trailed just 40-39 at the half last night, and were down 64-57 at the end of three.
They got within five points a couple times in the fourth, but could get no closer as the Terps feasted off some late turnovers and converted them into transition opportunities.
Jake Layman paced the Terps with a game-high 28 points last night. Dez Wells added 19 points and nine rebounds, and Seth Allen contributed 12. After the All-stars pulled with five points late in the fourth, Wells ignited a Terrapins' run with three rim-rocking dunks - two in transition and the other, a one-handed alley-oop over the top of a defender.
Michael 'Furley' Bain scored 21 points to pace the All-stars last night. Gamaliel Rose and Jaraun 'Keno' Burrows scored 17 apiece, and D'Shan Taylor dropped in 13.
"Anytime you lose a game, as a coach you shouldn't be happy. I'm not happy, but I'm proud of the way we competed," said All-stars' coach Mark Hanna last night. "We played tough, we fought hard, and we didn't back down. Anytime you play against a team that big and that physical, after a while, the body shots will get to you and you will wear down. When I took my starters out, they started to pull away, but that was expected because I had a lot of guys in there from the junior national team. When the starters went back in, it was too late.
"A lot of our guys have high basketball IQ, so I expected that they would be competitive. They adjusted pretty well to the physical style of play and they were able to compete. It's just that they wore down in the second half. Like I said, I'm not happy with the loss, but I can't fault the effort that they gave me tonight."
As for the Terps, they have missed the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Tournament in each of the past three seasons. Cleare, who averaged 3.7 points and 2.7 rebounds as a freshman last year, said that he is ready to have a coming out party this year and lead the Terps to a strong season. He is confident that they could advance to the NCAA Tournament this coming school year.
The Terps will play the Commonwealth Bank Giants in their second game of the BBF's 'Summer of Thunder' at 7 p.m. tonight, and the Grand Bahama All-stars in their final game at 11 a.m. on Friday morning.