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(CNSNews.com) – Tuesday was a day of mourning in Lebanon for Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, a senior Shi'ite cleric who was sometimes described as Hezbollah's spiritual mentor.
The 74-year-old, a harsh critic of U.S. policies in the Middle East, died in a Beirut hospital on Sunday.
Hezbollah said in a statement the death of a scholar like Fadlallah left "a void in Islam that nothing can fill."
"Grand Ayatollah Fadlallah stood in face of the Zionist enemy as he audaciously supported the Resistance and the heroic Mujahideen, as the world witnessed his defiance and resistance to the occupation and its criminal actions and the price he paid for his stances as he expressed his rejection to the conspiracies of arrogant states," it said.
Born in Najaf, a Shi'ite holy city in Iraq, Fadlallah moved to Lebanon in the 1950s and became that country's most important Shi'ite leader.
After the Iranian revolution in 1979, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) helped to set up Hezbollah in Lebanon in the early 1980s. Suicide bombings attributed to Hezbollah targeted U.S. and French troops in 1983, killing 362 people, including 220 U.S. Marines.
In 1985, a massive car bomb exploded near Fadlallah's house in the Lebanese capital. Although he escaped unscathed, more than 80 people were killed. Fadlallah initially blamed Israel and its "internal allies," and later the CIA, for what was assumed to be an assassination attempt.
During Israel's month-long war with Hezbollah in 2006, Israeli planes bombed Fadlallah's house, although he was not there at the time.
While in Lebanon to monitor parliamentary elections, former President Carter met with Fadlallah last June.
On Monday, messages of condolence poured in from around the Islamic world.
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said the country "has lost a great national and spiritual authority," while Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praised Fadlallah for his sponsorship of Hezbollah and his loyalty to the Islamic Republic.
Hamas' Damascus-based leader Khaled Meshaal sent the family a letter called Fadlallah "one of the greatest symbols and scholars defending the choice of resistance and jihad against the occupation, in support of the Palestinian strife and our people's right to freedom, liberty and liberation."
"With his death, the Islamic nation loses one of the most prominent Islamic figures, who played a great role in supporting the Islamic solidarity," the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) said in a statement.


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Select members of Digital Industry Association for Australia, known as AIMIA, have been invited to a private briefing on Tuesday by Liberal MP
According to policy documents published before the September election, the Coalition's proposed commissioner would be able to direct social media sites including Twitter, Facebook or Google+ to take down content deemed harmful.
"This approach will capture the sites most commonly used by children, and will be legally effective because it will apply to sites operated by companies with a significant presence in Australia," a pre-election Coalition document states.
The Coalition also proposed to introduce new federal legislation making cyber-bullying an offence punishable by jail time and fines.
But industry members are attempting to push back on the proposal in fear of a greater regulatory burden.
"The real worry is that all this extra regulation will be simply unworkable," said one industry source who did not want to be named. "The only people who seem to be calling for this are the Australian Christian Lobby. There may be a real fight on this. This could be the internet filter [proposed by the Labor government] all over again."
No need for a 'tsar'
Popular micro-blogging website Twitter established Australian offices last year after pressure from the then Labor government and some media outlets to address claims of cyber-bullying among its members.
Mr Fletcher could not be reached at time of writing. Spokespeople for AIMIA and Google refused to comment, and spokespeople for Twitter and Facebook did not respond to calls.
The Coalition's online safety proposals have been closely monitored by civil liberties groups and the industry after it published a plan prior to the election for an opt-out internet filter.
The filter proposal was dumped within hours of its publication.
"It's complex enough to deal with all that stuff let alone when you've got a tsar who's directing people to do this," Dr Rintel said. He recalled the incident "last year when the Aboriginal memes thing came out and [then communications minister Stephen] Conroy eventually pushed Facebook to take that down. These things do happen anyway so it's unclear whether a tsar is needed to push this through given you've got a Communications Minister who can do that anyway."
Dr Rintel said voluntary mechanisms in Japan, where the private sector took down child pornography content online after threats of government regulation, were the best examples of private control.
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Thursday is Corned Beef and Cabbage Day, better known in some quarters as St. Patrick's Day. As made-up food holidays go (Friday is Oatmeal Cookie Day and Sunday is Ravioli Day), Corned Beef and Cabbage Day actually makes sense. March 17 is likely the only day of the year you'll be partaking in this fatty-delicious feast.
Oh, during the year you may have a few corned beef sandwiches, the thin slices piled high on rye. However, the heaping plate of sliced corned beef accompanied by spicy mustard plus cabbage, potatoes and carrots, probably all boiled in beer, is usually a once-a-year experience.
And get this: Corned beef is as American as apple pie. It's not that it doesn't have vague Irish roots, but it just isn't a beloved holiday dish in Ireland.
Food historians believe that the dish was made popular by Irish immigrants in the United States looking for a substitute for their beloved Bacon and Cabbage. Irish bacon is meatier, more like ham, and is not cooked crisp like the bacon Americans are familiar with. It's also pork.
Corned beef is still a bit of an unknown, despite its ubiquity at this time of year. What does corn have to do with it anyway?
Nothing, really, if you are thinking of the stuff that grows as high as an elephant's eye. "Corned" means brined, which is what corned beef is. (Perhaps we should starting saying "corned turkey" at Thanksgiving.)
Corned beef is usually beef brisket that has been cured in a brine of saltwater and spices, among them coriander seeds, peppercorns, mustard seeds and whole cloves. You can corn a brisket yourself, but today, the price is right and the supply plentiful to buy one ready to plop in a slow cooker or Dutch oven of beer.
I recently sampled some corned beef made by Elizabeth Dougherty, host of the local Food Nation Radio talk show. It was particularly tender, which is what you want but not always what you get.
After the meat has been simmered for hours, she broils it with the thick layer of fat facing the heating element. The fat melts into the meat, though it doesn't disappear completely. She maintains this tenderizes the meat. It's worth a try because her corned beef was excellent.
The accompanying recipe includes directions for a creamy horseradish sauce. That and spicy mustard will clear the head of anyone celebrating St. Patrick's Day, Irish or not.
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A month after political opposition led the Indian government to indefinitely delay a decision to allow foreign retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores into the country, policymakers changed a rule that would make it easier for predominantly single-brand foreign chains like Ikea to set up fully owned stores.
The government said it would lift the 51 per cent ownership limit on foreign companies that sell just one brand of products, a group that would also include companies such as Apple and Starbucks if they meet certain strict conditions. Many foreign chains, most notably Ikea, which buys a lot of furniture and furnishings from India, have not opened stores in the country because they did not want to take on Indian partners.
The decision is among steps Indian officials took in recent weeks to bolster flagging investor confidence and increase the flow of foreign money to support its slowing economy. This month, policymakers allowed individual investors who live in other countries to trade directly on the Indian stockmarket.
But one of the market-opening proposals was recently tabled after meeting political opposition. The government, led by the Congress Party, last month reversed a decision to allow 51 per cent foreign investment in multi-brand retailing, a category that includes Wal-Mart, Tesco and Carrefour. Many political leaders, including some members of the Congress and its allies, opposed letting foreign retailers own controlling stakes of stores, saying they would decimate small shopkeepers and wholesale traders that employ 34 million people.
But the decision on Tuesday to further open up single-brand retailing to foreign competition suggests that Prime Minister
Still, the approval comes with strict conditions that may be difficult for some to meet. Among them is that single-brand retailers buy 30 per cent of the value of their products from small Indian businesses and artisans, defined as businesses and individuals that have invested less than $1 million in factories or equipment.
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CHILDREN from a Redditch school were thrilled when they got a visit from a popular author recently.
Mark Lowe recently visited Crabbs Cross Academy on Evesham Road.
Mr Lowe is the author of popular children's books including My Hamster is a Pirate, My Hamster is a Spy, and My Hamster is an Astronaut.
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I've been a constant poster, so if there's a gap you have to know something had to have been up.
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We will harvest fresh backyard fruit for donation to hunger relief agencies (soup kitchens, food pantries, shelters and the food bank) in Contra Costa County. We will have all the necessary equipment, including buckets, picking-poles, ladders, clippers, gloves and crates with us. Wear closed-toed shoes and clothing appropriate for the expected weather conditions of the day. Please come prepared to be outdoors for 4 hours. Other items to consider are:
- Water and a snack/lunch
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You can learn more about The Urban Farmers at www.theurbanfarmers.org. All participants must sign a release of liability waiver (copies available for download here or at the event).
Is there an age limit?
Children must be 6 years or older and accompanied by a parent/guardian.
What are my transportation options?
Other than driving to the church parking lot, there is a BART station in Lafayette that is within 15 minutes walking distance of the church parking lot.
Can I come without registering?
We prefer that you register so we can plan the harvest based on the size of the crew. If the event is not sold out and is not private, you are welcome to join without registering.
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Saaspose.OCR is a REST API for optical character recognition and document scanning. Saaspose.OCR API also supports character recognition for multiple languages such as English, French and Spanish. The accuracy, high speed and ease of use make Saaspose.OCR the perfect choice for text extraction from images in cloud. Previously, we have provided SDK and REST examples for text extraction from images in different programming languages such as .NET, RUBY and Java. We have recently added examples in PHP that you can utilize in your applications and enjoy the effective text extraction feature. Saaspose.OCR supports text extraction from whole images and a specific block of an image as well. There are two approaches to extract the text from images such as documents, PDFs, or TIFF images. The first method involves the process of file uploading on Saaspose storage using Saaspose.OCR REST API. Once the file is uploaded on the storage, you can extract the text from image using Saaspose.OCR examples in PHP. The second method is that you can directly extract image text from files on your local system using Saaspose.OCR REST API and SDKs without saving the file to Saaspose storage. Using the file path or stream, you can extract text from images or you may choose to extract text from a specific block of an image. The file is sent through request stream to Saaspose servers, processed and the output is sent back as response stream and the file is not saved on Saaspose storage. It is a single call process that uploads the file to server, extracts the text from image, sends image text back as response stream and deletes the source file from the server. For more information, please refer to Saaspose.OCR documentation. Saapose.OCR supports optical character recognition for whole image, partial image or a specific rectangular area of an image file. This feature-rich API not only allows you to manipulate your image files for text extraction but you can also combine multiple REST APIs to enhance your application. Get started with Saaspose.OCR API now enjoy a whole new experience of optical character recognition and document scanning in the cloud. You can opt for free development account that enables you to evaluate all of our APIs. Stay tuned to our blog and newsletter for latest updates on Saaspose APIs.
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Life Insurance for Baby Boomers over 65 in Colorado Springs, CO
Term Life insurance is a wonderful means to ensure that your hard work is maintained and your valued family members are dealt with for many years to find. Life insurance for senior citizens is offered, however it is necessary to contrast prices and also discover the ideal fit.
Is It Possible to Get Life Insurance if You More than 65 in Colorado Springs, CO?
Popular kinds of life insurance for boomers
Term life insurance policy for baby boomers:
This policy benefits seniors that intend to protect their loved ones for a certain variety of years. It could be more economical than various other policies, especially for seniors healthy. Due to the fact that seniors are living longer, it's not uncommon for a person in their 60s to purchase a 20-year-term life insurance policy policy.
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This type of life insurance policy is usually a lot more costly yet will last for the remainder of your life. Part of the costs you pay gets attached the objective of making even more money for your recipient.
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Loan from a life insurance plan is payable immediately and also is typically tax free, which indicates your liked ones or various other recipients could promptly receive the sum total of your life insurance plan.
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Largest independent Project Management firm in the United States to increase its internal commitment to e-Builder to better service its rapidly expanding healthcare clientele.
Fort Lauderdale, FL – February 1st, 2012 - e-Builder, the number one provider of project management software to healthcare owners, announced today that Hill International, Inc. (Hill), the largest independent Project Management firm in the United States, will increase its internal commitment to e-Builder staff training to better service its rapidly expanding healthcare clientele. Hill is a construction consulting firm with an exclusive focus on risk avoidance for project stakeholders. Hill services include program and project management, troubled project turnaround, staff augmentation, scheduling, claims, and independent cost estimating and controls.
Hill works with many e-Builder clients. During the course of managing Methodist Sugar Land Hospital's $234 million expansion project, the Hill team implemented e-Builder while the project was underway. Hill augmented the tremendous experience gained with additional training offered by e-Builder, achieving Administrator level status. According to Denise van den Bossche, Hill's Business Development Director with a focus on the vertical and healthcare sectors, "e-Builder provides a strong platform that complements our own investment in technology and internal talent. Its capacity to integrate BIM coordination and capital planning, process automation, reports and dashboards, document management, bid management and cost controls provides a strong value-add to our clients. It is our business to introduce, manage and train our clients in strategies that create positive results, and ultimately pay for our services many times over. Hill holds licenses and expertise in dozens of software platforms, but we are witnessing exponential growth with e-Builder, especially in the healthcare sector."
Jonathan Antevy, e-Builder CEO, said "Hill International's continued and expanded use of e-Builder Enterprise demonstrates the value and positive results both firms are collectively delivering to the owner market".
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Hill International, with 3,100 employees in 100 offices worldwide, provides program management, project management, construction management and construction claims and consulting services. Engineering News-Record magazine recently ranked Hill as the 8th largest construction management firm in the United States. For more information on Hill, please visit our website at www.hillintl.com.
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I have used Karl Liwo in the sale and purchase of two homes and he is a pleasure to work with. I recommend him highly!
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Attorney Karl Liwo handled two separate real estate issues for us, both with excellent satisfactory results. The first was the dissolution of a tenant issue, dissolving a long term rental lease; the other, the selling of a FSBO home where we were the inexperierienced sellers. In both cases Karl proved to be a considerable asset to the negotiations as well as the overall process. From start to finish he was available, always courteous, unhurried and explicit in his communications. Karl educated us not only as to our rights, but also our obligations and further safeguarded us against future potential pitfalls. In instances where multiple options were available, Karl was able to walk us through each scenario outlining the pros and cons of each choice. We found him to have a wide understanding of his industry that blended well with his considerable understanding of simple human nature. His balanced approach diffused tensions and his ability to quickly dissect and discuss each moving piece of our process assuaged many of our concerns and enabled us to react with confidence.
In addition to enabling us to successfully and professionally execute the sale of our home, we found Attorney Liwo (Karl) to be extremely approachable and available. Many if not most of our transactions occured on the weekend and during non-business hours and Karl was consistently proactive in responding to off hour communications. We were able to meet every deadline and respond to every request in a unexpectedly timely manner.
Finally, we appreciate that during each communication Attorney Liwo kept the tone professional, succint and positive. Real estate transactions can be personal - at times emotional, contentious, complicated and stressful. Karl deftly navigated any emotion brought to the table, always simply moving the conversation and process forward with the best possible results.
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The Homestead-Miami Speedway has been hosting the final race of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season since 2002. For NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Bill Elliott, the racetrack has been home to one of his most memorable Winston Cup victories and one of his worst defeats.
Elliott's NASCAR career had been a really great one. He started running in the Cup Series full time for the first time in 1983 and from 1983-1994 Elliott would win 40 races, including two Daytona 500's in 1985 and 1987. He set speed records that will never be set again and he won the 1988 NASCAR Winston Cup Championship. He was also one of the sports most popular drivers and always took time with the fans. In 1995, Elliott began driving for his own team after running three seasons for legendary car owner Junior Johnson.
Elliott's six seasons running his own team had it's ups and downs. In 1996 at Talladega, Elliott broke his leg after a freak accident after his McDonald's Ford got airborne. The G forces broke Elliott's leg. He missed seven races due to the incident. In 1998, Elliott bruised his sternum in a horrible crash at Talladega. Elliott didn't miss a race but later on in the year, Elliott would miss a race due to his father, George, passing away. In 2000 Elliott would miss two races after tripping over a garden hose and hurting his knee.
He would come close to victory, in his own stuff but would never get his McDonald's Ford to victory lane. Not unless you include one of the Twin 125 mile qualifying races at Daytona International Speedway in 2000. Elliott came close to victory twice in 1997. He came within ten laps of winning the Daytona 500, until a late race caution flew when Dale Earnhardt flipped. Elliott got freight trained by a Hendrick trio losing the race and finishing fourth. Later on in the year, Elliott finished runner-up at Michigan to Ernie Irvan. By 2000, it had been five long seasons since Elliott won his last Cup race and most people in the sport wondered if he could still win at NASCAR's highest level. Most people, except for Ray Evernham.
Evernham hand picked Elliott to run for his team in 2000, and offered the 45-year old a three year contract, beginning with the 2001 season. It wasn't an easy decision for Elliott. He would have to leave his family ran race team for the second time and he would have to leave Ford Motor Company, a company he had been with since he started his career back in 1976. Evernham's team would run Dodge's starting in 2001. After some thinking, Elliott decided he wanted out of his own deal and wanted to get back to being competitive. He signed the three year deal with the team and Elliott, Evernham and Dodge were ready to go for the 2001 season.
In 2001, Elliott's season got off to a great start, by sitting on the pole for the Daytona 500. However, the rest of the season was a struggle, the lone bright spot came when he led 57 laps and finished third at Michigan. When the NASCAR Winston Cup Series entered the Homestead-Miami Speedway for the 2001 Pennzoil Freedom 400, Elliott was 16th in the standings. He sat on the pole and led the first 52 laps of the event. He was in second position to his teammate Casey Atwood on lap 262, with five laps to go. He was closing in on Atwood, but he was way back and it looked like Elliott would come up short again. That was until Kurt Busch spun in the #97 John Deere Ford, causing a caution. Elliott was on Atwood's back bumper when the race restarted and Elliott went low on Atwood in turn one and took the lead. He never looked back. He took the checkered flag first for the first time since September 1994.
"Pinch me, this is just like Friday," Elliott said in victory lane. "With Ray and these guys behind me no," Elliott said about wondering if he'd ever get back to victory lane. "All the boys have done a hell of a job, their the ones that put this car under me to make it work all day long. I gotta give a couple credits to Ray because he believed in me when a lot of people didn't and people thought he was crazy. It's been a great relationship."
Elliott's 2001 season finished strong and that led to a strong 2002 season. In 2002 the 46-year old won two races at Pocono and the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Brickyard was one of Elliott's favorite wins, winning at one of the most famous racetracks in the world. When the 2003 season came along, Elliott's season was even better. He was running strong and things were looking good for the future, however Elliott had other plans. The 47-year old had mentioned a couple times through the season that he would like to scale back in the upcoming season. With two races to go in the season Elliott's decision was still not known but he went out and dominated the Pop Secret Microwave Popcorn 400 at Rockingham. When the season finale came along at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Elliott's decision was still unknown. He started the 2003 Ford 400 in the 20th position, but he quickly came to the top of the field and took his first lead by lap 47. He would dominate the rest of the afternoon and it looked like Elliott would end the 2003 season with back to back victories. He led 189 of the races' 266 laps when he took the white flag. Elliott had a big lead coming off of turn two when his #9 Dodge bobbled coming off of turn two. It was an unreal site. Elliott moved his Dodge up the track as he had a flat right rear tire and his car began to slow. Bobby Labonte would pass him on the backstretch and Elliott would coast home to an eighth place finish.
It was a crushing defeat for Elliott and his fans. With the chill of retirement in the air at Homestead. Elliott had an interview with NBC's Marty Snider, in which Elliott handled with as much grace as Elliott had handled everything in his career.
"We had a great racecar today," Elliott said. " Our Dodge ran so well today, and you know you win them sometimes like that, I don't know if I have ever won one like that, but I've sure lost 'em like that," Elliott finished.
Little did his fans know, that would be Elliott's last run in the #9 Dodge. He would go into semi-retirement in the 2004 season and his #9 car would be driven by rookie Kasey Kahne. Elliott's Homestead blown tire would go down as one of his worst defeats of his career.
Elliott would run two seasons part time for Evernham, before moving to Michael Waltrip Racing and other teams in 2006. In 2007 Elliott would move to the Wood Brothers Racing Ford, where he would drive part time for four seasons. In 2011, Elliott drove for Phoenix Racing. In 2012, Elliott drove one race for NEMCO Motorsports and drove Turner Motorsports' Sprint Cup debut at Daytona in July.
While some of Elliott's races in recent years have been good, the sting of the 2003 Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway still lingers for Elliott and his fans.Tags: Bill Elliott, Homestead-Miami Speedway, Motorsports, NASCAR, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Ray Evernham


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(CBS/AP) - Federal authorities exchanged gunfire with fugitive ex-cop Christopher Dorner in the Big Bear area of Southern California on Tuesday, sources tell the Los Angeles Times.
PICTURES: Ex-LAPD cop accused of going on killing spree
Dorner, 33, is accused of killing three people as part of a revenge-driven rampage against the Los Angeles Police Department. A $1 million reward has been offered in the case.
According to the Times, Dorner burglarized a home, tied up the couple inside, and stole a car before the shootout occurred.


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Some quick hits from Monday's practice …
There were plenty of bodies skating when the Ducks took the ice at Honda Center, but Joffrey Lupul was not among them.
Coach Randy Carlyle said Lupul was scheduled to undergo an MRI exam for numbness in his leg. Lupul had said he was hopeful for returning to the lineup Wednesday, but Carlyle said the winger didn't feel much better and that the "muscle's not firing."
The injury is believed to be related to a back spasms injury Lupul has dealt with this season …
Mike Brown (upper body) practiced but he wore a burgundy jersey, along with Teemu Selanne (hand) and Ryan Carter (foot), designated for injured players.
Brown left Saturday's game against Columbus. He fought Derek Dorsett, who broke his hand in the scuffle.
Brown said he wasn't sure if he would be available Wednesday, but Carlyle said, "I would expect him to be an option."
Carlyle was asked about the spark of rookie Dan Sexton, who has four goals in his first five NHL games playing on the second line with Bobby Ryan and Saku Koivu.
"To say that we expected this would be a huge lie," Carlyle said. "Are we enjoying it? Yes, and he's enjoying it.
"We're extremely excited about it, but we don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves."
Carlyle said having two scoring lines is what he would have expected to have earlier this season, and he noted that the top line featuring Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry needs to be as productive as it was earlier in the year.
"That's our job is to get both lines firing and providing us with offense," he said.
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text: The Bluths are back, baby, and they look better (and more ridiculous) than ever, decked out in royal finery in a photo for Entertainment Weekly's reunion issue. Look at Buster's hook down there in the corner! And Tobias' vacant, beaming smile! The new season of "Arrested Development" (it still feels surreal to type that) will… READ MORE »


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For the first time, we're running a phone-only photo competition with a prize for every day of the Bournemouth Air Festival – and thanks to local iPhone app Postsnap we've got some great prizes to win.
Every day we'll choose our favourite from public photos tagged with #bmthaircomp on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook – and the winner will get a copy of the Daily Echo's Air Festival book, a ticket for the Bournemouth Balloon AND a £20 credit to spend with Postsnap.
How to enter
Pick your best image taken with a phone, and post it tagged #bmthaircomp. If your instagram account is private you'll need to also tweet the picture or send us the share link (email it to firstname.lastname@example.com and put #bmthaircomp in the subject)
Postsnap is an iOS app that turns your phone, Facebook or Instagram photos into postcards or greetings cards and sends them to the recipient of your choice. You can read more at postsnap.com, follow them on Twitter @Postsnap or like them on Facebook
And don't worry, if you win and you don't have an iPhone or iPad, you'll get two tickets for the balloon instead of one.
We'll announce the previous day's winner at 12pm every day – so make sure you're following us @bournemouthecho on Twitter or instagram.com/bournemouthecho. Good luck!
Please note entry to this competion is only by use of the #bmthaircomp tag on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter - but if that's not your thing there's still £300 to be won in our main photographic competition. All the details here
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Film Series at Ithaca College to Focus on 'LGBT People and Sport'
ITHACA, NY —The Out of the Closet and Onto the Screen series at Ithaca College has scheduled a yearlong slate of films focusing on the topic of "LGBT People and Sport." Sponsored by the Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Education, Outreach, and Services, all of the screenings will begin at 7 p.m. in Textor 103 and are free and open to the public.
The schedule for the Fall of 2011 is as follows:
Wednesday, August 31
"Out for the Long Run"
Several openly gay and lesbian high school athletes are followed through their senior year in high school and beyond. This documentary shows how the classmates navigate the uncertain waters of high school life while still holding true to their passion for sports and remaining true to who they are as individuals.
Wednesday, October 5
"Training Rules"
Rene Portland had three training rules during her 26 years of coaching women's basketball at Pennsylvania State University: no drinking, no drugs and no lesbians. This documentary examines how women's collegiate sports, caught in a web of homophobic practices, can collude in the destruction of the lives and dreams of many of its most talented athletes.
Wednesday, November 2
"Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story"
A look back at a dark moment in American sports history, when Emile Griffith pummeled Benny "Kid" Paret into a fatal coma during a world welterweight title boxing match. This documentary considers what role Paret's taunting of Griffith with an anti-gay epithet might have played in the fight, and gives Griffith's account of the night three decades later when he was viciously beaten after leaving a gay bar.
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"Rock the Boat"
Screening in observance of World AIDS Day
A crew of HIV-positive sailors enters the Trans-Pacific Yacht Race from California to Hawaii, one of the most hazardous boat races in the world. This documentary reveals how the disease affected their lives and loved ones, and how their determination fueled their drive to finish the race despite the growing strife on board and the unyielding, ferocious weather.
Support for the Out of the Closet and Onto the Screen series is provided by the Jack Dembow Charitable Foundation. For more information, visit www.ithaca.edu/lgbt.


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As you may know binary or Non-XML data processing requires "DataGlue" license shown for "show license" CLI command. XS40 as well as new XG45 (without DIM feature) do not have "DataGlue" license and allow for very limited Non-XML...
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I was asked how to "just appened" some "binary" string to Non-XML input received by DataPower before sending to backened. Based on the techniques from first Webcast on "Non-XML Data Processing in DataPower Stylesheets"...
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Over the years I was (and still am) interested in non-XML data processing with DataPower. I did numerous developerWorks DataPower forum postings on that, as well as WSTE webcasts. And in this blog now 23 postings are tagged with non-xml: https://www.ibm.com/de...Modified on by HermannSW
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Marcia K. Johnson (1943- ) is Dilley Professor of Psychology at Yale University. She received her Ph.D. in 1971 from University of California, Berkeley. Her research has focused on human memory, specifically the component processes of reflection and consciousness, mechanisms of veridical and distorted memory, memory disorders (resulting from amnesia, frontal brain damage, aging), and the relation between emotion and cognition.
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text: By BRUCE SCHREINERFRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) â¿¿ Momentum for a bill laying the groundwork for a possible industrial hemp comeback skidded to a halt Wednesday when a Kentucky House panel failed to vote on the measure, which would set up state oversight of the one-time agricultural staple if the federal government pardons the illegal crop. The House Agriculture and Small Business Committee heard nearly two hours of testimony but took no action on the measure, which would allow the state agriculture department to license hemp growers if production becomes legal. A lawmaker's motion seeking a vote was ruled out of order by committee Chairman Tom McKee. McKee wants to overhaul the bill to allow a university-led study of hemp, which thrived in Kentucky generations ago but has been banned for decades since the federal government classified it as a controlled substance related to marijuana. Hemp has a negligible content of THC, the psychoactive compound that gives marijuana users a high. McKee, D-Cynthiana, never called for a vote on his proposed substitute, and hemp supporters said it showed he didn't have enough committee support. Later Wednesday, McKee reconvened the committee briefly during a recess on the House floor, but no action was taken on the bill. Hemp supporters, led by Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner James Comer, a Republican, criticized McKee for stalling the bill. They urged the committee to resist a rewrite and to advance the version that easily passed the GOP-led Senate. They said the bill would put Kentucky at the forefront of the national hemp movement if the federal ban on the crop is ever lifted. The bill also includes safeguards to monitor hemp production that would benefit law enforcement, they said. Comer said that McKee â¿¿ his longtime House colleague â¿¿ had "pulled the rug out from under all of us."


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(August 28, 2014) - A teen's wish became a reality. Sean Anderson is an 18-year-old from Tooele, Utah who has muscular dystrophy and autism. He can't speak much and he requires a ventilator and oxygen to breathe.
Sean has always wanted to feel the sensation of flying but that was never a possibilty due to all the equipment he needs around at all times. But recently AirMed and the Make-a-Wish Foundation partnered to give Sean a ride in a helicopter.
Watch the video below from FOX 13 Salt Lake City to learn more about Sean's story.


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PokerStars' Quest in NJ Continues with New Casino Partner
Rational Group may have failed in its attempt to acquire ownership of Atlantic Club casino, but has found another way to pursue its online gambling quest in New Jersey. PokerStar's parent company has entered into a partnership agreement with Resorts Casino Hotel, for the latter to act as terrestrial host to PokerStars' website in NJ's jurisdiction.
Rational Group's forward-looking statements last Wednesday delved mainly on the new partnership deal and excitement over future investments in Atlantic City. There was no comment regarding the NJ appellate court's rejection of Rational's appeal to revert a previous court ruling, which sided with the owners of Atlantic Club.
Resorts Casino Hotel submitted its application for Internet-based gambling operations before the deadline set by New Jersey gaming regulators, which denotes that it has named PokerStars as its Internet gaming provider. Still, the partnership deal between PokerStars and Resorts is still subject to evaluation and approval of the NJ regulators.
About PokerStar's New Casino Partner
Resorts Casino Hotel enjoys the reputation of being the first to bring casino gaming in New Jersey's gambling Mecca in May 26, 1978. Although the company initially achieved overwhelming financial success, most of its history is a series of financial turmoil, changes of ownership and legal battles. There was also an instance when the company paid fines amounting to $225,000, for freely extending gambling credits to its casino patrons. The casino-hotel's gaming monopoly in Atlantic City ended in 1979, as other Nevada casino giants started bringing their business to NJ's gambling capital.
In 2011, the current owners, DGMB, LLC, reinvented Resorts' reputation as the first casino-based gay nightclub in Atlantic City. Nine months later, the gambling establishment made significant improvements in its ability to generate profits.


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I was appalled to read an essay by Dr. Mary Hunt at the online journal Religion & Politics, not least because I am on the advisory board there. I wish to assure my readers that I was not asked for any advice on publishing this article. Let us take one paragraph that jumps out at me:
The controversy over then Cardinal Bergoglio's role in the kidnapping of two Jesuits during this period is instructive. As a Jesuit leader, Padre Jorge, as he liked to be known informally, opposed liberation theology and the ecclesial model of base communities that was consistent with it. In my view, he opposed the most creative, politically-useful, scripturally-sound way of thinking about how people who were made poor by the avarice of others could change their context and bring about justice.
First, there is the factual error: Cardinal Bergoglio was not a cardinal when he was the provincial of the Jesuits. In fact, he was not named a cardinal until 2001, long after the troubled times in Argentina under the junta. But, it is the order of the adjectives with which Hunt describes liberation theology that I find instructive: "the most creative, politically-useful, scripturally sound...." Creativity can be employed for good or evil ends. But it is the prioritization of "politically-useful" ahead of "scripturally sound" that illustrates exactly what was wrong with the kind of liberation theology then-Father Bergoglio opposed: It collapsed the eschaton into a political platform and valued political effects more than theological orthodoxy. As comments from Leonardo Boff and Jon Sobrino have made clear, Bergoglio was not indifferent to the poor, nor to the need to liberate them from unjust structures of sin. But he did, correctly, oppose those strains in liberation theology that either ignored the transcendent dimension of salvation by equating it with a political program, or the proposed an inadequate moral anthropology of the kind that afflicts neo-con Catholic economics as surely as it affected certain liberation theologies.
The rest of the essay is just as bad, but I am having a good day and have lots to do, so I will not dissect them line and verse. I am reminded of something I was told on the day of Pope Francis' election: "X thinks he is an ideologue." (I place a "X" here because the conversation was private.) Of course, X, in this case, was a fierce ideologue, too, albeit of a different stripe. So, if you peruse Dr. Hunt's essay, consider the source. Hell, she appears to want a pope who advocated for abortion and, yes, that is a hellish prospect. I am reminded of the conversation I had with a television producer, in advance of a potential appearance on a show, who asked if "the new pope would take a more progressive stance on abortion." I replied that the Church has the true progressive stance on abortion, the stance that gives voice to the voiceless, defends the most vulnerable, and confronts those who thing one person should be able to decide the fate of another. Needless to say, I was not invited on to that show. That producer, of course, may not be a Catholic, may have accepted the pro-choice drivel about human autonomy, ignored the now obvious indicators that fetal life is human life, and can be excused perhaps for not knowing any better. What is Dr. Hunt's excuse?
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The Oakland Raiders got their preparation started for the San Diego Chargers this week. Injuries are a huge part of success and failure in the NFL and Oakland has had their fair share this season. This week, the Raiders were without safety Charles Woodson, but got running back Darren McFadden back on a limited basis at Wednesday's practice
McFadden's extensive injury history is a sore spot for the Raiders and their fans. He has never played a full NFL season and this year is no different. He has battle ankle and hamstring injuries throughout the year. He has missed six games and is on his way out the door because of his unrestricted free agent status at the end of 2013. If he can get back for the last two games, he would have to make an amazing impression to even be considered a part of the future. Even that may not be enough because of his inability to stay healthy.
"He did pretty much everything," Raiders head coach Dennis Allen said of McFadden on Wednesday. "He's a little limited, but really looked pretty good."
Charles Woodson is doing his farewell tour back in Oakland for a second time. He made his name as a member of the Raiders and has helped the team this season. He has played in every game accumulating 79 tackles, one sack, one interception, and three forced fumbles. He suffered a ribs injury last week against Kansas City and was unable to participate in Wednesday's practice.
"I think he's done everything that we've asked of him to do and he's continuing to try to work to get things corrected," Allen said of Woodson. "He's been a great asset to our organization."
The rest of the Raiders injury report is as follows: defensive tackle Vance Walker, linebacker Miles Burris, and running back Jeremy Stewart did not practice. The Raiders take on the San Diego Chargers Sunday in an AFC West grudge match, looking to sweep the seasons series.
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The Rosefield Guest House is Just 5 minutes' walk from Weymouth beach, The Rosefield Guest House offers stylish rooms and a cosy conservatory/lounge with a licensed bar for the use of residents. There is a peaceful landscaped garden which is ideal for those afternoon teas. Our bright and modern rooms include flat-screen TVs with DVD players.
Free fibre optic Wi-Fi access is available for guests, along with tea/coffee-making facilities. Some rooms feature comfortable chairs and private bathrooms.
Free on site parking is provided at The Rosefield Guest House, keys to rooms can be collected between 10am & 12pm so why not take advantage of the free parking and wonder down into town? Weymouth's bustling centre is a 15 minute walk away. Weymouth Pier and the Sealife Centre are both just 5 minutes' walk away, and Weymouth Rail Station is 10 minutes away on foot. A very comfortable self assessed Four Star Guest House in the heart of the Jurassic Coast. Ideal for use as a base when exploring Dorset. . . !!
The Rosefield Guest House is only a short walk to the golden sands of Weymouth's famous beach and a short drive from the Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy. It is a 15 minute walk into Weymouth town centre and about 5-6 minutes walk to the promenade. Just a few yards down the road, there is a bus stop with frequent services to Dorchester and a few yards up the road there is a bus stop with frequent services into Weymouth itself. There is a strict no smoking policy at this guest house. However, there is an area of the garden where guests may smoke. We have a no pets policy sorry. Breakfast is served daily (No breakfast will be served New Years Day) in our dining room between 8. 00 am and 9. 00 am or at other times by prior arrangement.
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On Tuesday, MBA President David W. White Jr. led the first meeting of the MBA's Drug Policy Task Force. More than one dozen attorneys, as well as civic and other nonprofit group leaders, were in attendance to begin the dialogue surrounding drug policy reform as it relates to criminal sentencing.
On hand for the task force's inaugural meeting was Washington State Representative Roger Goodman, who has been instrumental in advocating and implementing in his state policies that focus on rehabilitation rather than incarceration for drug use and distribution offenses. This was Goodman's second visit to the Bay State in recent months. He also was a key panel member at the MBA's Criminal Sentencing Symposium held at the State House in October.
The next meeting of the task force will be held on May 19 at the MBA headquarters in Boston. For more information on the MBA Drug Policy Task Force or criminal sentencing initiatives, visit www.massbar.org.


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Square Enix has set a 20th March release date for The Last Remnant on PC.
The desktop version of the JRPG adds a choice of Japanese or English voice-overs, better character animations, and the option for multiple leaders to form unions.
We're told that gameplay will be faster during battles, too. Quite the claim. And one we hope extends to loading times.
But will any of this help Last Remnant improve on the Xbox 360 version that launched last November? We're not so sure, which is a shame, as the strategical elements under the hood are very accomplished.
Incidentally, there's still no word on a date for the PS3 version of Last Remnant. But we're checking this out with Square Enix now.
Head over to our Last Remnant review to read our thoughts.


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An actor who's always likely to end a movie a lot less alive than he started it, Sean Bean is swiftly catching up with the likes of Dennis Hopper and Vincent Price as the master of the on-screen termination. The Yorkshireman has more than 20 death scenes to his name across film and television, enough to prompt his new crime show Legends to promote itself with the hashtag #DontKillSeanBean.
Bean has been shot, strangled, beheaded, shot some more, crushed by satellite dish and pulled apart by horses. If your death scene needs the ultimate bower-outer, he's your man. "There a period when I was getting killed off all time," he recalls when Empire guided him through a flipchart of his movie mishaps. "I'd look at the script to see what page I got killed on. It'd be 'Page 83? Not bad...'"
With the LA riots in full swing outside, Bean was called back to Los Angeles three times to reshoot terrorist Sean Miller's violent end at the hands of Jack Ryan. Eventually a combination death was settled on, involving a boat hook and a giant explosion.
"Big Hollywood studios don't know how to kill off the villain at the end. The producers said: 'We've got to make sure Sean's really, really dead'. I just went, 'Fucking hell, I've got an anchor through my chest! I'm not going to survive that.'"
Boromir's noble death, pin-cushioned with Uruk-hai arrows as he tries to save Merry and Pippin, gives Bean a moving coda. As he passes on, he has comrades-in-arms Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli by his side.
"This is my favourite death. Peter Jackson had a big idea for it and he gave it time to breathe. I was really pleased when I saw it, because it's very sad and heroic. I even had some last words, although I can't remember what they were."
The only time Bean has been taken down by a cow, The Field is the strangest of the actor's many terminations. As the inbred Tadhg McCabe, he struggles to break the shackles of his overbearing father, but ends up getting driven off a cliff by a stampeding herd of cattle and sheep. If David Lynch made ads for Anchor Butter, this is what they might look like.
"It was sickening and bizarre; a horrible, awkward death. We had to go back a week after shooting the scene because they'd missed a shot and there were the sheep, still drifting eerily in the water. That was pretty disturbing."
As rogue MI6 agent 006 Alec Trevelyan, Bean's bad-guy duties ended in another gritty, two-part death. First, he's dropped several hundred feet from a Cuban satellite dish by a pitiless James Bond. Then – because this is Sean Bean – he's smooshed by hundreds of tonnes of falling steel for good measure. If Pierce Brosnan was in the pay-off business, "crushing" would fit the bill.
"I've survived that big drop - that's quite hard, isn't it? I was upside-down in a harness at Leavesden with all the blood rushing to my head. It���s amazing how you forget the crap stuff, but then nobody wants to hear, 'Oooh, it was really hard.''"
This workmanlike thriller ends with Bean's jewel thief being turned into worm hors d'oeuvres when he's buried alive by an excavation machine. The man on the other end of the device is Michael Douglas, adding another illustrious Bean bagger to the list.
"I remember this, it was in a warehouse in LA. I got covered with ash. I enjoyed that day, it was really easy-going – just me, a couple of make-up girls, the director and the ash men." (Laughs)
Bean's death in the HBO fantasy epic left a million jaws on the floor. In the murky world of Seven Kingdoms circa season 1 Eddard Stark was the closest there was to a heroic figure, so his execution at the hands of the feckless Joffrey was blistering and brutal. Even as a masked man prepares to get medieval on his head with a longsword, a reprieve must surely come? Except it doesn't.
"It was just another day at the office (laughs). I underplayed it because I knew it was going to be dramatic and emotional. I heard that a lot of fans were upset about my death. I'm sorry!"
As baddie and disasterous potential anagram Pyke Kubic, Bean dies putting the squeeze on Chris Hemsworth and Victoria Profeta, a couple who came by a suitcase of his ill-gotten cash. There's a tussle in a car, a handgun goes off and it's sayonara to Sheffield's finest at the hands of future-Thor.
"It's tough to shoot in a car: it looks messy, but it's tightly choreographed and you've got to know exactly what you're doing. This was a sweaty scene."
They didn't do peaceful deaths in ye olde England, as Bean's medieval knight Ulric discovers when he's pulled apart by horses. Pulled. Apart. By. Horses. While you chew that over, here's some context: he's drugged by pagan villagers who demand he makes the stark choice between Christianity and his limbs. Being Sean Bean, he takes the tough option, instantly ruling himself out of When Saturday Comes 2.
"This is a good death as well, isn't it? It's a dismemberment. It was pretty hard to film because I had to spend the whole day on my knees being pulled. It was good exercise. I also got to say, 'I am Death!' That was brilliant."
As fascist-henchman-turned-liberal-softie Errol Partridge in Equilibrium, Bean meets his melon-splattered end with his nose in the poetry of W. B. Yeats. It's one of the more telegraphed of Bean's big-screen slayings but no less affecting, not least because it's his old partner John Preston (Christian Bale) pulling the trigger.
"Maybe I should have a tattoo of that Yeats poem: 'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.' I could get all my last words tattooed on my arm."
Stepping into Rutger Hauer's dusty boots to play murderous hitchhiker John Ryder, Bean gets his comeuppance when terrorised springbreaker Sophia Bush shots him in the head.
"You can see bits coming out of my head here. They put a charge on the back of your head to do that. You can feel it going off. Sometimes when you're against the wall you can hear it going 'psssht' and splattering behind you."
Joining the good people of Paris, Chicago and other major cities on Michael Bay's lengthy death list, Bean faces the eternal hanging from a chrome skyway after a tussle with Ewan McGregor. As a lab-coated baddie he was never likely to make it out of Bay's film in one piece. Sure enough, his death scene is a spectacle to pop the eyes. Literally.
"This was a hard one to do because everything around us was steel, but it's a good one. What am I thinking here? I'm thinking: 'Sheffield United have got Arsenal on Saturday...'."


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Photographer's Note
Munich Odeon Square, Hall of the commander. People come and go. There is always something going on. The girls in front of the giant lions were of course a beautiful eye-catching.
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Hi Wolfgang
this is the next picture of your post of yesterday: crop on the 2 girls seated close to the lion, maybe smiling to their boy friends.
daddo (28572) 2014-08-12 3:01
Hi Wolfgang. Infectious smiles- good enough for a toothpaste commercial. I wanted to say for your earlier photo that the lion's mane is splendid, but I like the ones the girls are showing off. The creators of all three subjects should be proud of their work. Regards. Klaudio.
snunney (110791) 2014-08-12 3:48
Hello Wolfgang,
A stone lion watching over a pair of very attractive young ladies, what could be more delightful. I like the tight crop and the conversion to black and white is superb. Wish I could achieve that quality.
ikeharel (82838) 2014-08-12 9:06
Smiling under the old lion, Wolfgang, a superbly taken the moment.
Only if the lion was alive...
A big & fantatic sculpture, charming the two young ladies taken the adventage., and yourself taken the moment.
Good evening,
holmertz (62422) 2014-08-12 10:53
Hello Wolfgang,
These girls are certainly attractive enough to deserve a photo of their own (along with the lion). The combination of legendary strength and female softness in this classic setting makes a successful composition.
Kind regards,
carlo62 (58776) 2014-08-12 14:21
Ciao Wolfgang
tra il "sorriso" del leone e quello delle "tigri", preferisco, i secondi...
Bello scatto e bel b&w, la qualità fotografica è ottima e la scala dei grigi è eccellente.
berek (50508) 2014-08-20 7:29
I really liked all the faces in this picture. super results very good idea. black and white choice is very correct. congratulations.
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Bigger, better and more energy efficient, two new Express Mart stores wow customers. By Erin Rigik, Associate Editor. Express Mart is living up to its name, rapidly increasing its store count and expanding the size of its store footprint to outpace the competition.In just the first two months of 2012, Home Service Oil debuted two
Express Mart Debuts New Larger Locations
Dollar General Launches Honoring Our Every Day Heroes Program
Lynchburg, Va. man selected as first national hero. Dollar General is launching Honoring Our Every Day Heroes, a year-long program to honor the heroes among us—from firefighters and veterans to teachers and caregivers. "Dollar General is pleased to launch the Honoring Our Every Day Heroes program to recognize our customers—the everyday heroes who are
SymphonyIRI Report Examines Shopping Mission Trends
Times & Trends report finds pantry stock-up and quick trips account for two-thirds of CPG trips and dollar sales. It has long been a daunting task to stay in lock step with the shopper mindset. After all, mindsets are a moving target and can quickly change due to a variety of reasons, including purchase
Dollar General Opens New Location in Cleveland
A grand opening celebration planned for March 12, is set to award the first 50 shoppers with $10 gift certificates. Shoppers in Cleveland have a new place to shop for everyday essentials at low prices now that Dollar General recently opened a new store at 35 Marvin Miles Road —which means competition for area c-stores.
7-Eleven Hires FM to Manage Maintenance
7-Eleven Inc. has selected FM Facility Maintenance to handle all store maintenance for its 6,200+ corporate- and franchise-owned locations in both the U.S. and Canada. The agreement allows 7-Eleven to centralize maintenance activity in order for stores to operate more efficiently, while reducing costs. "We believe 7-Eleven, our store operators, franchisees and, most importantly, our


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Colleague Mike Johnson is back from a recent trip to Puerto Rico. I asked for his thoughts on the East Course at Dorado Beach, so he filed this report:
Still there's more to Dorado than a fine course in a tough-to-beat setting. I'm not saying it's affordable (through March, resort guests pay $250), but normally when the ranger pays you a visit in the middle of the fairway you cringe. At Dorado he offered a butter cookie the first time we saw him and a mint the next. The forecaddie (ours, a young man named Chen, was tour quality) tools around in his own cart, adding to their efficiency and after returning the cart at the Plantation clubhouse a cool, almond-scented towel is offered.
So what's better than a buddies golf weekend in Puerto Rico that includes playing Dorado East? Still noodling on that one.
--E. Michael Johnson
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The Dwarf 1953
Aimee watched the sky, quietly.
Tonight was one of those motionless hot summer nights. The concrete pier empty, the strung red, white, yellow bulbs burning like insects in the air above the wooden emptiness. The managers of the various carnival pitches stood, like melting wax dummies, eyes staring blindly, not talking, all down the line.
Two customers had passed through an hour before. Those two lonely people were now in the roller coaster, screaming murderously as it plummeted down the blazing night, around one emptiness after another.
Aimee moved slowly across the strand, a few worn wooden hoopla rings sticking to her wet hands. She stopped behind the ticket booth that fronted the MIRROR MAZE. She saw herself grossly misrepresented in three rippled mirrors outside the Maze. A thousand tired replicas of herself dissolved in the corridor beyond, hot images among so much clear coolness.
She stepped inside the ticket booth and stood looking a long while at Ralph Banghart's thin neck. He clenched an unlit cigar between his long uneven yellow teeth as he laid out a battered game of solitaire on the ticket shelf.
When the roller coaster wailed and fell in its terrible avalanche again, she was reminded to speak.
"What kind of people go up in roller coasters?"
Ralph Banghart worked his cigar a full thirty seconds. "People wanna die. That rollie coaster's the handiest thing to dying there is." He sat listening to the faint sound of rifle shots from the shooting gallery. "This whole damn carny business's crazy. For instance, that dwarf. You seen him? Every night, pays his dime, runs in the Mirror Maze all the way back through to Screwy Louie's Room. You should see this little runt head back there. My God!"
"Oh, yes," said Aimee, remembering. "I always wonder what it's like to be a dwarf. I always feel sorry when I see him."
"I could play him like an accordion."
"Don't say that!"
"My Lord." Ralph patted her thigh with a free hand. "The way you carry on about guys you never even met." He shook his head and chuckled. "Him and his secret. Only he don't know I know, see? Boy howdy!"
"It's a hot night." She twitched the large wooden hoops nervously on her damp fingers.
"Don't change the subject. He'll be here, rain or shine."
Aimee shifted her weight.
Ralph seized her elbow. "Hey! You ain't mad? You wanna see that dwarf, don't you? Sh!" Ralph turned. "Here he comes now!"
The Dwarf's hand, hairy and dark, appeared all by itself reaching up into the booth window with a silver dime. An invisible person called, "One!" in a high, child's voice.
Involuntarily, Aimee bent forward.
The Dwarf looked up at her, resembling nothing more than a dark-eyed, dark-haired, ugly man who has been locked in a winepress, squeezed and wadded down and down, fold on fold, agony on agony, until a bleached, out-raged mass is left, the face bloated shapelessly, a face you know must stare wide-eyed and awake at two and three and four o'clock in the morning, lying flat in bed, only the body asleep.
Ralph tore a yellow ticket in half. "One!"
The Dwarf, as if frightened by an approaching storm, pulled his black coat-lapels tightly about his throat and waddled swiftly. A moment later, ten thousand lost and wandering dwarfs wriggled between the mirror flats, like frantic dark beetles, and vanished.
Ralph squeezed Aimee along a dark passage behind the mirrors. She felt him pat her all the way back through the tunnel to a thin partition with a peekhole.
"This is rich," he chuckled. "Go on-look."
Aimee hesitated, then put her face to the partition. "You see him?" Ralph whispered.
Aimee felt her heart beating. A full minute passed.
There stood the Dwarf in the middle of the small blue room. His eyes were shut. He wasn't ready to open them yet. Now, now he opened his eyelids and looked at a large mirror set before him. And what he saw in the mirror made him smile. He winked, he pirouetted, he stood sidewise, he waved, he bowed, he did a little clumsy dance.
And the mirror repeated each motion with long, thin arms, with a tall, tall body, with a huge wink and an enormous repetition of the dance, ending in a gigantic bowl
"Every night the same thing," whispered Ralph in Aimee's ear. "Ain't that rich?"
Aimee turned her head and looked at Ralph steadily out of her motionless face, for a long time, and she said nothing. Then, as if she could not help herself, she moved her head slowly and very slowly back to stare once more through the opening. She held her breath. She felt her eyes begin to water.
Ralph nudged her, whispering.
"Hey, what's the little gink doin' now?'
They were drinking coffee and not looking at each other in the ticket booth half an hour later, when the Dwarf came out of the mirrors. He took his hat off and started to approach the booth, when he saw Aimee and hurried away.
"He wanted something," said Aimee.
"Yeah." Ralph squashed out his cigarette, idly. "I know what, too. But he hasn't got the nerve to ask. One night in this squeaky little voice he says, 'I bet those mirrors are expensive.' Well, I played dumb. I said yeah they were. He sort of looked at me, waiting, and when I didn't say any more, he went home, but next night he said, 'I bet those mirrors cost fifty, a hundred bucks.' I bet they do, I said. I laid me out a band of solitaire."
"Ralph," she said.
He glanced up. "Why you look at me that way?"
"Ralph," she said, "why don't you sell him one of your extra ones?"
"Look, Aimee, do I tell you how to run your hoop circus?"
"How much do those mirrors cost?"
"I can get 'em secondhand for thirty-five bucks."
"Why don't you tell him where he can buy one, then?"
"Aimee, you're not smart." He laid his hand on her knee. She moved her knee away. "Even if I told him where to go, you think he'd buy one? Not on your life. And why? He's self-conscious. Why, if he even knew I knew he was flirtin' around in front of that mirror in Screwy Louie's Room, he'd never come back. He plays like he's goin' through the Maze to get lost, like everybody else. Pretends like he don't care about that special room. Always waits for business to turn bad, late nights, so he has that room to himself. What he does for entertainment on nights when business is good. God knows. No, sir, he wouldn't dare go buy a mirror anywhere. He ain't got no friends, and even if he did he couldn't ask them to buy him a thing like that. Pride, by God, pride. Only reason he even mentioned it to me is I'm practically the only guy he knows. Besides, look at him-he ain't got enough to buy a mirror like those. He might be savin' up, but where in hell in the world today can a dwarf work? Dime a dozen, drug on the market, outside of circuses."
"I feel awful. I feel sad." Aimee sat staring at the empty boardwalk. "Where does he live?"
"Flytrap down on the waterfront. The Ganghes Arms. Why?"
"I'm madly in love with him, if you must know."
He grinned around his cigar. "Aimee," he said. "You and your very funny jokes."
A warm night, a hot morning, and a blazing noon. The sea was a sheet of burning tinsel and glass.
Aimee came walking, in the locked-up carnival alleys out over the warm sea, keeping in the shade, half a dozen sun-bleached magazines under her arm. She opened a flaking door and called into hot darkness. "Ralph?" She picked her way through the black hall behind the mirrors, her heels tacking the wooden floor. "Ralph?"


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6'3" x 19 1/2 x 2 1/2 Thruster.
Shaped by a guy called Jake Stevens, previously a shaper for New Wave in Gisborne, NZ - one of the better known board makers out there.
This board has a fishy feel and is wide and floaty, suit an intermediate and is good in the smaller stuff.
I snapped the nose off in indo which you may be able to make out in the photo but was professionally repaired.
The grass is hiding it but it has a square tail!
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ExxonMobil will look to expand its $15 billion liquefied natural gas project in Papua New Guinea after launching fresh studies to find new gas reserves.
The US oil major has already committed to building two processing units, or trains, to handle 6.6 million tonnes of LNG a year as part of a joint venture with Australian energy companies
"There is always interest in looking at expansion and those opportunities because to an extent you've got facilities built and you want to ensure they are full," ExxonMobil's chairman John Dashwood told The Australian Financial Review.
"There is some seismic offshore exploration work happening [and] I think anything that made economic sense that would allow additional trains, just like at Gorgon, is very healthy."
Oil Search managing director
"My strong view is there's substantial further upside in the existing fields which, given appraisal and exploration success, I think there's a high likelihood there is enough gas to underwrite further trains."
Mr Botten said gas for the potential expansion could be sourced from the venture's own drilling or third parties providing gas to the project.
"The easiest one to deliver is from the joint venture inside PNG LNG. If you look outside the venture there is lots of gas still to find but that is going to take a little while longer to come to market because of the necessity to prove up the gas and form a new joint venture."
The gas project, which could double PNG's gross domestic product, will consist of gas extraction facilities in the country's Western Highlands, 450 kilometres of pipeline, and liquefaction facilities near Port Moresby.
ExxonMobil has a 33.2 per cent interest in PNG LNG, Oil Search holds a 29 per cent stake, and Adelaide-based Santos owns 13.5 per cent. Other shareholders include the PNG government and Japan's Nippon Oil Exploration.
In March, the partners confirmed a $US14 billion ($15 billion) financing deal, clearing the way for construction to accelerate.
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The release of an abducted BBC journalist in Gaza is being seen by some as an attempt by Hamas (which denies any part in the kidnapping) to curry favor with Tony Blair, who on stepping down as Britain's prime minister was appointed international envoy to Israel and Palestine. Blair has the thankless task of helping the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas build institutions for a viable state, following Hamas' military takeover of Gaza.
Given the stakes, this is a task worth doing despite the high risk of failure. But unless Blair gets a lot of unexpected support, failure is what will happen.
Four basic facts govern Blair's role:
- No peace is possible unless the Palestinian government becomes master in its own house;
- Nothing is possible if Gaza remains a virtual charnel house;
- Abbas cannot succeed and Hamas cannot be politically weakened unless there is massive external economic assistance;
- It is imperative to limit the damage caused by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to everything else that has to be done in the Middle East.
Blair isn't the first statesman to try helping the Palestinians. James D. Wolfensohn, former head of the World Bank, tried earlier in Bush's term. Wolfensohn made some progress, but it was not enough, especially when the United States, Israel, and the European Union chose to starve the Palestinians financially after Hamas won its unexpected victory in the January 2006 Palestinian elections. Wolfensohn quit in frustration.


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Jeanne Tripplehorn is an American film actress. She is primarily known for starring opposite Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct and alongside Kevin Costner in Waterworld as well as in The Firm alongside Tom Cruise. Tripplehorn is a stage-trained actress and was originally a local disc jockey and TV host.
Salma Hayek Jiménez is an Academy Award-nominated Mexican actress, Daytime Emmy-winning director, and a film and television producer. Hayek has appeared in more than thirty films and performed as an actress outside of Hollywood in Mexico and Spain.
On March 9, 2007, Salma's publicist Ina Treciokas confirmed the actress was engaged to French businessman François-Henri Pinault who heads PPR, a holding company specializing in retail luxury goods. The couple is reported to be expecting their first child together.
Here the two actresses in a lesbian kiss:


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By the authority vested in me, pursuant to part II, Article 44 of the New Hampshire Constitution, on June 15, 2011, I vetoed SB 3, making comprehensive changes to the state retirement system.
Even as this bill sits on my desk with a deadline of today, members of the ongoing conference committee on HB 1 and HB 2 have publicly announced that they will consider substantive changes to this legislation, a version of which is already included in HB 2. Those changes include potentially addressing decisions made yesterday by the Board of the Retirement System that could impact the budgets of the state and local communities.
Given the legislature's stated intent to change this legislation further, and my responsibility to review the legislation in its full and final form, I am vetoing Senate Bill 3 and will assess the legislature's final product.
Source: http://www.governor.nh.gov/media/news/2011/061511-sb3.htm


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