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A selected preview of IAEA meetings and events for 2007:
- The IAEA kicks off its 50th anniversary year, looking back at some moments in time since 1957.
- Global leaders including IAEA Chief ElBaradei meet in Davos at the World Economic Forum.
- "Polar Lights" - a scientific conference for young nuclear professionals - opens in St. Petersburg, Russia, with the IAEA´s participation.
- The world´s ITER nuclear fusion project is set for review in Aix en Provence, France.
- Nuclear safeguards and budget committees of the IAEA Board of Governors meet in Vienna. The full Board meets in early March.
- Through its programmes to fight the disease, the IAEA joins in marking World Cancer Day 4 February.
- Nuclear communicators from Europe and other regions meet in Milan at the European Nuclear Society´s conference on public information.
- The premier international conference for nuclear waste management opens in Arizona.
- The next session of the Six-Party Talks on North Korea´s nuclear program take place in Beijing 8-13 February 2007.
- The safe production and use of different naturally occurring radioactive materials takes centre stage at a symposium in Seville, Spain, supported by the IAEA.
- Starting 5 March in Vienna, the IAEA Board discusses issues related to nuclear safety, safeguards and technology.
- At the IAEA and elsewhere, the world marks International Women´s Day on 8 March.
- In late March, Europe marks the 50th anniversary of the Treaties of Rome that set up a unified economic community and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), which partners with the IAEA on nuclear safeguards. Today nuclear plants supply one-third of the European Union´s electricity.
- The next session of the Six-Party Talks on North Korea´s nuclear program take place 19 March to hear reports of working groups.
- Japan hosts an international conference on desalting seawater using nuclear power, hydrogen production, and other industrial applications.
- In France, experts take stock of developments influencing technical and scientific support for nuclear and radiation safety.
- Advances in measuring radioactivity in the environment are reviewed at an IAEA conference in Vienna.
- The 45-member Nuclear Suppliers´ Group - a body outside IAEA auspices - is scheduled to meet in South Africa, with the USA-India nuclear agreement reportedly on the agenda.
- Experts from dozens of countries share experience in applying isotope hydrology to manage their water resources.
- In Germany, developments are highlighted influencing the production and use of radiopharmaceuticals.
- As the workforce changes, nuclear leaders take a closer look at knowledge management and related issues.
- The IAEA Board´s June meetings open 11 June in Vienna.
- The 2007 World Nuclear University (WNU) Summer Institute starts 14 July, hosted by the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Company.
- On 29 July, the IAEA officially marks 50 years of international service.
- The summer session opens at the International School of Nuclear Law in Montpellier, France.
- Mongolia hosts an international conference on medical treatment using radiopharmaceuticals.
- The IAEA Board´s pre-General Conference meetings start 10 September.
- The IAEA General Conference of Member States meets in Vienna starting 17 September.
- How long can nuclear plants safely generate electricity? Experts examine issues.
- The IAEA Board´s Committee for Technical Cooperation meets starting 19 November.
- The full IAEA Board meeting opens 22 November.
- An international conference examines issues related to the safe, secure and productive operation of the world´s research reactors.
- Health practitioners meet in Thailand on medical imaging technologies helping patients around the world.
- India hosts a global conference on water issues from environmental and energy perspectives.
Keep informed by visiting www.iaea.org and the meetings pages.


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Our esteemed contributor, Arnold Evans, has written a comment that we think should be featured as a stand-alone piece. Arnold's piece puts the transformative events that are going on in the Middle East right now in a rich and sharply drawn historical context, and draws out provocative implications regarding the future direction of U.S. policy in the region. As Arnold insightfully argues, U.S. strategy in the Middle East is at crossroads.
By Arnold Evans
The US has to a greater or lesser degree since the foundation of Israel and/or the end of the British colonial empire worked to ensure a balance of power in the region of the Middle East. By balance of power, I mean it has had as a goal preventing one power, for example Iran from being in a position to overrun, for example, Arabia and coordinating the large stock of resources in a way that could directly or in alliance with any rival be harmful or threatening to the US.
This is not unique to the Middle East. Germany and France should, according to US principles, each be unable to impose control over the other, Brazil and Argentina, Japan, Korea and China all should be roughly in balance. Just enough that none of the powers are able to use the resources available as a unit in a way that could potentially harm the US.
What is unique to the Middle East is that there is a tiny country that the US has to a greater or lesser degree since its foundation, felt a responsibility to maintain. This is important because, for example, Arabia has a lot of oil and plenty of resources that it can remain independent of Iran, make sure it is not worth Iran's while to try to capture – except that an Arabia that is too strong, could and would render Israel non-viable.
So while the US pursues a balance of power strategy, in the Middle East it pursues a strategy of a balance of artificially weak powers. Arabia has to be both immune from domination by Iraq or Iran and also weak enough not to threaten Israel.
Saddam Hussein, for his own reasons that are very interesting but tangential to this discussion was willing to attack Iran after Iran removed itself from the US colonial structure by expelling the Shah. The United States and its remaining regional colonies supported Hussein in this attack as an effort toward "dual containment".
By the time the war was over Iraq and Iran were both weakened. The US plan for Iraq was that it was to remain weak indefinitely because of service of war debts to the US colonies, low oil prices and lastly Kuwait – at US direction – would actually pump and sell oil from under Iraqi territory.
When the Iran-Iraq war ended, the US did not need an active war in Iraq or Iran. Both were sufficiently weak and could be kept so through various methods of indirect economic warfare – sanctions and oil policies of the more reliable colonies.
Hussein attempted to break out of Iraq's containment by attacking Kuwait. I've read the report of the US ambassador to Iraq who some say encouraged Hussein to attack and I do not get that impression at all. While there were probably warning signs, Hussein's attack on Kuwait was unexpected and potentially threatening to the balance of powers that are artificially weak enough not to threaten Israel in the region.
The United States responded by directly intervening to remove Iraq from Kuwait and then by imposing sanctions far more brutal than those currently imposed by the US and Israel on Gaza. The United States limited the supply of protein to Iraqi civilians as well as water treatment technology and caused the premature deaths of over one million Iraqis.
Which brings us to 2000.
The reason for the sanctions, indeed for the encouragement by the US and its colonies of the Iran-Iraq war was to maintain a balance of power where countries in the region are too weak to threaten each other or Israel which is a tiny territory with a small concentrated population. The rationale of the sanctions was that Iraq had not complied with demands to remove any "weapons of mass destruction".
Iraq had complied with those demands. Iraq publicly and unambiguously stated on every possible occasion that it did not have them. Once sanctions were over, Iraq, as every country, would have had the capacity to rebuild its stocks. The United States, as it currently is regarding Iran, deliberately lied and effectively pressured the IAEA to go along with its lies in order to prevent Iraq from reaching a post-sanction state where it would be able to rebuild itself beyond the boundaries required in the US' balance of artificially weak powers strategy for the region.
It is also very interesting though mostly tangential to this discussion exactly how the US works itself into lying about Iraq's weapons. It involves shifting definitions, presenting Iraq as a demon unworthy of any defense at all, tying the sanctions effort to anti-Semitism. The United States worked itself into a frenzy and some of the Americans lying about Iraq could have easily passed lie detector tests or comfortably put their hands on stacks of bibles partly because they believed what they were saying, partly because they felt justified in making any possible negative statement about Iraq, just to be sure.
So what the United States faced in 2000 was a situation where the justification of the sanctions was wearing thinner, the effects of the sanctions were disgusting enough that it was becoming increasingly difficult for the United States to get cooperation in maintaining them and Hussein was developing ways to advance state aims despite the sanctions, and these methods would only become more effective over time.
The situation when George W. Bush came to office was actually sustainable from the US/Israel point of view for the most part. Iraq was not going to be a threat to capture Kuwait or Arabia for an extended period of time even if it became better at managing the sanctions against it. The situation though, was not optimal. The US would have preferred Iraq be ruled by someone more like Mubarak, or Iran's previous Shah or the leaders of the members of the US colonial structure in the region such as Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan, Kuwait and others.
Iraq could provide resources for anti-Israel groups and was an irritant but not a strategic threat and the pertinent question would have been would it be worth the cost to remove Hussein? The answer in 1991 was no. The US did not occupy the country. That remained the answer through the Clinton administration and I think may have remained the answer to this day if there had been no 9/11 attack.
The 9/11 attacks unleashed in the United States a desire for vengeance against Muslims and against Arabs that Bush decided could be directed against Iraq. Iraq was not in any conceivable way a threat to the United States and was an irritant but not a strategic threat to Israel.
(As an aside, Iran, in showing how to prepare a group to actually hold its ground in full conflict with Israel, is moving from irritant to actual strategic threat to Israel, though it is not nearly as threatening as it would be if it, or a country anything as close to its people in policy preferences as Iran is was located, say, where Egypt is located.)
However, with the United States in a mood to avenge an attack by Arabs and Muslims and a figure in Ahmed Chalabi who seemed at the time to be willing and able to be for Iraq what Mubarak was for Egypt, an invasion of Iraq became feasible.
Here I also want to talk about the US vision of democracy. Iraq was, by the 2003 US plan, to be a managed democracy, the way Afghanistan is. US approved candidates would run essentially unopposed. Political parties potentially hostile the US and Israel would be banned. Joe Biden said, nearly at the height of the Tahrir Square protests, that Hosni Mubarak is not a dictator. The intention in 2003 was for Chalabi to fill that position for Iraq – which would be, from the US point of view, a tremendous improvement over Hussein.
The WMD had just been a pretext to impose sanctions to savagely punish the Iraqi nation for attempting to break out of the balance of artificially weak powers the US maintains in the Middle East out of necessity for Israel. When the US decided it might as well replace Hussein with Chalabi, the pretext moved over to a justification for an invasion. That pretext had been transparently false ever since the George H.W. Bush administration said to the New York Times that it would not lift the sanctions as long as Hussein remained in power, regardless of removing any WMD.
Iraq's Shiites, Sistani, and the remnants of Iraq's military in their insurgency prevented the US from installing Chalabi as a stooge "not a dictator" against all expectations in the US in 2003. How that happened is also an interesting but tangential story.
Which brings us to today.
The 2003 US project to turn Iraq into 2010 Egypt or 1978 Iran failed and the US has no hope of salvaging it. Maintaining a balance of power in the medium term now pretty much means abandoning Israel and letting Arabia really develop an indigenous military capacity to hold its own balance.
Obama expressed hope that this situation could be avoided by reaching a negotiated settlement of the Palestinian conflict that would grant Israel legitimacy in the region so that a developed Arabia and region would not be a threat. That hope, always unrealistic, has now been dashed except in the minds of the most stubborn supporters of Israel.
Obama also hopes that the US can trigger an economic crisis in Iran that can be exploited to remove Iran's current government and replace it with one that rules in opposition to the values of the Iranian people the way the Shah did or Mubarak did Egypt. Iran has been through externally imposed economic crises before. This hope is also unrealistic – the vigorous efforts of people like George Soros and our own Scott Lucas notwithstanding.
The United States expended a tremendous amount of resources intervening in Iraq and, contrary to its expectations, failed. If the United States was to try again in Iran, Syria and Iraq again, it would not have the expectations it had in 2003 it would just be knowingly throwing resources away. We are not going to see that. We are going to see the United States remove itself over the next 20 years from its balance of artificially weak powers strategy as gracefully as it can given Israel's position in its domestic political situation, on terms as favorable as it can manage for Israel and for the Jewish people of Israel.
How favorable the most favorable terms the US can manage actually are remains to be seen. But the 1948-2003 US Middle East strategy is over.


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The Osseo City Council hired a historical consultant for work on the Osseo North Water Tower Intensive Level Survey during its Monday, July 28 meeting. The city previously received grant money to help with this work.
Also during the meeting, the council considered a conditional use permit (CUP) request by Passion Church for a building on Central Avenue.
This and other action took place during the meeting.
Emma Notermann, Economic Development intern, presented the council with the option to consider hiring a consultant to complete the work associated with the Minnesota Historical Society grant award for the Osseo Water Tower Intensive Level Study and evaluation for National Register eligibility.
Back in May the city was awarded a $6,564 grant from the Minnesota Historical Society for the purpose of hiring a historical consultant to prepare a report on the North Water Tower. The report will determine if the water tower is eligible to be included on the National Registry of Historical Places.
Notermann said three potential consultant candidates were reached out to — Alexa McDowell, Greg Gaut and Charlene Roise. "We received bids back from two of them, Alexa McDowell and Greg Gaut," she said. "They were both within the grant money we were allocated."
McDowell's bid was $6,564 and Gaut's bid was $6,500.
Staff recommended McDowell because she was already in engaged in the project with the initial grant writing process and had completed work on placing the Elk River Water Tower on the National Register.
Councilor Allan Hartkopf asked who was going to pay for repairs to the water tower if they were needed. Notermann said the grant was just to prepare a report to give to the Minnesota Historical Society to determine if the water tower is even eligible to be on the register. "There are two or three more steps before we would get to the National Register, at which point we could apply for additional grant money to repair the water tower," she added.
The council voted 3-1 to approve the hiring of historical consultant Alexa McDowell for work on the Osseo Water Tower Intensive Level Survey and evaluation for the National Register eligibility. Councilor Hartkopf voted against and Mayor Duane Poppe was absent.
Passion Church
The council also heard a request from Passion Church, which was applying for a CUP to use at 101 Central Avenue. The church applied for the CUP to allow for a teen or youth activity center to located at that site. The proposal would allow Passion Church to reach out the youth within the Osseo/Maple Grove area as well as surrounding areas.
Passion Church holds it's Sunday worship services at Maple Grove Senior High. The church's teen ministry program is rapidly growing and the church is in need of a larger facility. The church would use the space at 101 Central Avenue for weekly Wednesday evening programs, after school for walk-in students and recreational activities throughout the month.
City Planner Riley Grams said parking would be located at the two spaces on Central Avenue in front of the building as well as eight spaces to the south of the building along First Street N.W.
The church would have to get special permission from city staff for any outdoor events, if there were any to be planned.
The Planning Commission approved the CUP for Passion Church with several conditions. Some of those include: using First Street N.W. for bus loading and unloading, no overnight sleeping, one or two church staff members present during business hours, and prior to CUP issuance the Osseo Building Official shall preform a walk-through of the space to ensure all applicable codes are met relating to the propose use.
Councilor Rick Weber said he felt the Planning Commission missed including having the police and fire departments walk through. "There is only one entrance in and out," he said. "So with that, and without the support of our police and fire department … I would like to table this until we have further reports."
Councilor Daniel Spanier said he had the same concerns.
Rev. Jonathan Brozozog of Passion Church said the building has a basement and there is a second exit that exists in the back of the building that adjoins to the building to the back. He added teens would be at the building at 6:30 p.m. and again at 8 p.m. on Wednesdays. The building would be closed by 9 p.m.
"Outside of that we're looking at very small groups where we can add value to the community and have a place for teenagers to come in and have a place to do homework, have access to free wifi, place to have fun," Brozozog said.
City Attorney Loren Magsam said adding having the police and fire go on the walk through could be added to one of the conditions.
The council unanimously approved the CUP request to operate a youth activity center by Passion Church at 101 Central Avenue, subject to several conditions with the addition of Osseo Police and Fire joining the Osseo Building Official on the walk-through to ensure all codes are met with all code deficiencies are fixed and the addition of a condition that the property owner must sign off on the application.
In other action, the council:
WAS updated CUP checks for 2014. There are a total of 39 active CUPs. There are 21 CUPs with no violations, six with violations, two not yet applicable (Osseo Gun Club and Tim's Quality Plumbing) and 10 with the potential to revoke.
ACCEPTED the resignation of Michael Boettner from the Public Services Department.
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Use of Polyethylene Glycolic Acid or Tachocomb to Prevent Pancreatic Fistula Following Distal Pancreatectomy
This study has been completed.
Seoul National University Hospital
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Seoul National University Hospital
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: November 21, 2011
Last updated: June 6, 2016
Last verified: June 2016
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To date, there has been many methods suggested to reduce pancreatic fistula. But there are no evidence of superiority to the other methods. This study is a multicenter prospective randomized phase III study of use of Tachocomb or Polyethylene Glycolic Acid (PGA) to prevent of pancreatic fistula after distal pancreatectomy.
|Pancreatic Fistula
|Device: Tachocomb Device: Polyglycolic acid (PGA) (Neoveil)
|Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single (Participant)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|Use of Polyethylene Glycolic Acid or Tachocomb to Prevent Pancreatic Fistula Following Distal Pancreatectomy: Prospective Multicenter Randomized Study
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Fistulas
Drug Information available for: Hydroxyacetic acid Polyethylene TachoCombU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Seoul National University Hospital:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- The rate of pancreatic fistula between groups [ Time Frame: postoperative 3rd day ]Pancreatic fistula was defined by criterion of ISGPF, Output through an operatively placed drain or a subsequently placed percutaneous drain, of any measurable volume of drain fluid on or after postoperative day 3, with an amylase content greater than three times the upper normal serum value
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Surgery-related risk factor [ Time Frame: intraoperative time ]Amount of intraoperative bleeding, blood transfusion, operative time, operative method with open, laparoscopic, or robotic surgery
- disease- associated factors [ Time Frame: intraoperative time, within 1 day after operation ]pancreatic hardness, pathological findings, diameter of main p- duct, and the thickness of pancreas resection area
- patient-related risk factors analysis [ Time Frame: 1 week before the operation ]age, sex, race, comorbidity
|Study Start Date:
|November 2011
|Primary Completion Date:
|April 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Tachocomb
Tachocomb will be applicated on the cut surface of distal pancreatectomy
Device: Tachocomb
A kind of Mesh:
ready-to-use hemostatic agent consisting of a collagen sheet coated on one side with human fibrinogen, bovine thrombin, and bovine aprotinin
Active Comparator: PGA
PGA will be applicated on the cut surface of distal pancreatectomy
Device: Polyglycolic acid (PGA) (Neoveil)
Polyglycolide or Polyglycolic acid (PGA) is a biodegradable, thermoplastic polymer and the simplest linear, aliphatic polyester.
Other Name: Neoveil
No Intervention: Control
No mesh will be applicated on the cut surface of distal pancreatectomy
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|20 Years to 84 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Expected survival time more than 12 months
Patients with at least one of the following pathologic diseases scheduled for elective resection
- Resectable malignancies of the pancreatic body/ tail
- Resectable pre-malignant lesions of the pancreatic body/ tail
- Resectable benign lesion of the pancreatic body/ tail
Exclusion Criteria:
- Current immunosuppressive therapy
- Pancreatic atrophy or calcification due to severe pancreatitis
- Chemotherapy or radiotherapy before operation
- Severe psychiatric or neurologic diseases
- Drug- and/or alcohol-abuse according to local standards
- Participation in another intervention trial with interference of a primary or secondary endpoint of this study
- Inability to follow the instructions given by the investigator
- Lack of compliance
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01550406
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|Seoul National University Bundang Hospital
|Seongnam, Bundang-gu, Korea, Republic of, 463-707
|Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine
|Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 110-744
|Severance Hospital
|Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 120-752
|Samsung Medical Center
|Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 130-710
|Gangnam Severance Hospital
|Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 135-720
Sponsors and Collaborators
Seoul National University Hospital
|Study Chair:
|Jin- Young Jang, M.D.
|Seoul National University Hospital
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Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Keywords provided by Seoul National University Hospital:
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Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Jang JY, Shin YC, Han Y, Park JS, Han HS, Hwang HK, Yoon DS, Kim JK, Yoon YS, Hwang DW, Kang CM, Lee WJ, Heo JS, Kang MJ, Chang YR, Chang J, Jung W, Kim SW. Effect of Polyglycolic Acid Mesh for Prevention of Pancreatic Fistula Following Distal Pancreatectomy: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Surg. 2017 Feb 1;152(2):150-155. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2016.3644.
Park JS, Lee DH, Jang JY, Han Y, Yoon DS, Kim JK, Han HS, Yoon Y, Hwang D, Kang CM, Hwang HK, Lee WJ, Heo J, Chang YR, Kang MJ, Shin YC, Chang J, Kim H, Jung W, Kim SW. Use of TachoSil(®) patches to prevent pancreatic leaks after distal pancreatectomy: a prospective, multicenter, randomized controlled study. J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Sci. 2016 Feb;23(2):110-7. doi: 10.1002/jhbp.310. Epub 2016 Jan 19.
|Responsible Party:
|Seoul National University Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01550406 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|November 21, 2011
|Last Updated:
|June 6, 2016
Keywords provided by Seoul National University Hospital:
Pancreatic fistula
distal Pancreatectomy
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Pancreatic Fistula
Pathological Conditions, Anatomical
Digestive System Fistula
Digestive System Diseases
Pancreatic Diseases
Glycolic acid
Keratolytic Agents
Dermatologic Agents
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Walkaway is a small town in the City of Greater Geraldton local government area of Western Australia. At the , Walkaway had a population of 262.
Its name is a corruption of the native "Wagga wah", referring to the bend in the nearby Greenough River, and was originally given to the railway station when a line was built from Geraldton in 1887. In 1894 it was linked with Midland Junction by the building of a private line - that of the Midland Railway Company, constructed by an engineer and later the first General Manager of the Company, Edward Keane. With the railway and an expanding agricultural area, the township grew until with the dieselisation of the railway systems, and the take-over by the State of the Midland Railway in 1964, decline set in. This was also accentuated by the gradual absorption of the original smallholdings into the larger holdings of today's farming demands.
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Man Charged In Connection With String Of Hilliard-Area Vehicle Break-Ins
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Police say a man admitted to breaking into a number of vehicles in the Hilliard area.
According to court documents, William R. Thompson admitted to the break-ins that occurred in the area of Dexter Falls and Dublin Commons early Monday morning.
Thompson, 42, was found with blood on him and with stolen items.
Police said that Thompson said he was intoxicated and possibly broke into some cars.
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Sindri from Sin Fang and Seabear and Örvar from Múm are the Apfelsin Bros. & they made a book full of drawings. There is a certain crudeness to their aesthetic unravellings, one could liken it to pancreas surgery performed with a spoon. And however colorful, lighthearted and festive their drawings, music or jokes are, there is always a certain self-reflexivity to what they spew. And to chart and map the reoccurring themes of the book, they have included a song. In two parts. It's a jolly romper.
Their picture book contains 80 pages of drawings and it's covered in orange linen weave. Included is a 5'' vinyl with a digital download code of the collaborative song. It is limited to 1000 copies. You can get it in selected book & record stores, but right now it's only available via our webshop anost.net!
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BioDelivery Sciences International (Nasdaq:BDSI) announced today it has come to an oral understanding to license to Sigma-Tau S.p.A., the right to utilize BioDelivery's proprietary formulation and delivery technology in connection with different compounds, with particular focus in the area of oncology. Under the terms of the proposed licensing agreement, which is subject to further negotiation and execution, Sigma-Tau would pay to BDSI an initial $250,000 up-front payment, upon the signing of this letter of intent and an additional $750,000 to be paid upon the accomplishment of certain milestones leading to the filing of the first IND of a compound formulated with BioDelivery's formulation and drug delivery technology. It is anticipated that should a final definitive license agreement be executed by the parties, that BioDelivery would receive additional milestone payments throughout the clinical development of each proposed product, as well as royalties on net sales.


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The full extent of former New Star fund manager Patrick Evershed's claims of bullying by his former employer John Duffield have been exposed.
Evershed is currently contesting his departure from the now defunct asset management company on the basis of constructive dismissal. He left months before New Star was forced to re-structure its debt and then was ultimately sold to Henderson Global Investors for a fraction of its peak value.
In a judgement handed down by the Employment Appeals Tribunal today, Evershed claims that in the run-up to the credit crunch in 2008, when he was running the New Star Selected Opportunities fund, he told Duffield that he believed:
- That the credit crunch was coming
- He was bullying the group's head of property Roger Dossett to buy over-valued properties
- He was destroying the confidence of his own fund managers and the group's marketing department.
Evershed, who now works for Hargreave Hale, lost the initial claim and is now appealing. Today he won an amendment which will see the case judged under the Whistleblowing Act, meaning that the damages he can potentially win in a further appeal are unlimited rather than being capped at £66,000.
Duffield's legal team denied all of Evershed's claims during the appeal. It said: 'New Star denies the chairman in any way bullied [Mr Evershed] or attempted to undermine, demean or humiliate him. The chairman always spoke to and acted towards [him] with courtesy and respected [him].'
However, the three judges agreed the case could be judged under the whistleblowing Act because Evershed wrote to New Star's head of human resources shortly before he was asked to leave the company in September 2008 claiming Duffield was bullying him and his colleagues.
The latest judgement in the case reveals the full letter Evershed wrote to the head of human resources, Helen Steel.
The letter said: 'I would like to make formal complaint about the way John Duffield has been bullying me and several of my colleagues.
'He has been vile to most of the fund managers for several years and bullying us. He has created a most unpleasant atmosphere throughout the firm. His conduct and the atmosphere which he has created has destroyed the performance of the New Star funds. He recruited stars and then destroyed them by the way he treated us.
'The board are aware of they [sic] way Duffield has been treating us and by the way his conduct has undermined the self confidence of the fund managers and the marketing department but they have been too frightened of him to deal with the situation in the way they should have.
'In particular he bullied me in to reopening my fund. This destroyed the performance of the fund and my reputation. He has also destroyed the performance of several other funds and the reputation of several of my colleagues.
'He also bullied Roger Dossett into buying properties when he and I and many others kept telling him the property sector was over valued. I kept telling him for over three years that a credit crunch was coming, but he turned his back on me each time and walked away. He refused to listen to me or Roger.
'When I told him to stop bullying Roger to invest in over-valued properties he threatened to sack me. I intended to take him to court over this but I was persuaded by Richard Pease not to do this. This was the worst decision of my life. I could have saved a lot of people a lot of money if I had brought action through the courts against him at that time.
'I would also like to make a formal complaint against Gregor Logan. He also bullied Roger and his team in to investing in over-valued properties.
'I am sorry to have to write this letter to you but an increasing number of my colleagues have come to the reluctant decision that it is time for Duffield to be removed. It would be better if the board did this rather than leave it to me to take the matter to court.'
After his employers received the letter the judgement says Evershed was promptly summoned by the then New Star chief executive Howard Covington, who is said to have suspended Evershed from his duties, saying he was 'clearly emotionally unfit to manage money'.
Evershed was given 15 minutes to clear his desk and as he passed Duffield he is said to have warned Evershed to be 'very careful' as 'this might be very expensive for you'.
New Star then wrote to Evershed stating that he no longer had the authority to make investment decisions because he had been seeing a psychiatrist (which Evershed denied) and would not be allowed back until a practitioner chosen by New Star had confirmed him well enough to make investment decisions.
A key plank of Evershed's compliant is that when he launched the Selected Opportunities fund he had agreed with Duffield to limit the size of the fund to £50 million. He argues Duffield sought to re-open the fund after a run of strong performance and this ultimately undermined it.
Evershed used the sharp decline in performance on his fund as evidence of the impact of the bullying at New Star in his Court of Appeal hearing.
He said: 'John Duffield recruited investment stars to his new fund management group. In the first two years, five of the six main retail funds were in the top quartile of their respective sectors.
'Four years later, however, because of the bullying and undermining which the fund managers suffered from John Duffield, five of the six main retail funds were at the bottom of their respective sectors.'


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Welcome to WebmasterWorld Guest from 184.108.40.206
Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & andy langton & goodroi
"I thought I'd clear the air a bit:
1) Penalty?
When your site has pages in our supplemental index, it does *not*
indicate that your site has been penalized. In particular, we do not
move a site's pages from our main to our supplemental index in response to any violations of our Webmaster Guidelines.
2) Freshness?
You can expect to see a fresher supplemental index in the coming
quarters. By the definition of "supplemental," however, I don't forsee
it becoming as comprehensive or frequently updated as our main index.
3) Cure?
Get more quality backlinks. This is a key way that our algorithms will
view your pages as more valuable to retain in our main index."
more at... Google Groups discussion [groups.google.com]
[edited by: tedster at 11:12 pm (utc) on Nov. 11, 2006]
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Well block them then. Or do you actually WANT the traffic? Well then do what you have to to get it!
Time better spent finding other venues for traffic then bending over backwards to try and suit G.
Are you saying smaller companies are?
>>>>>In fact I think precisely the opposite. They are successful because they are good at what they do<<<<<<
Sometimes...and sometimes they USED to be good at what they do. Now they just have deep pockets and can do on the internet what smaller can't.
Why do you care? Was I bullying big companies?
I disagree with what appears to me an unrealistic attitude.
And yes I think that smaller less successful companies are likely to be less good at what they do. That's why they are smaller and less successful!
At one time google was the smallest, least well known search engine out there. Lucky for them, there wasn't an entity around capable of quashing them and keeping them irrelevant.
Anyway, back to topic, I think there maybe other ways to land in the supplementals.
I have another site that is largely supplemental and does not suffer with duplicate content from errant URL's. This is a relatively new site (8 months) and has a large number of pages (7500+).
It is difficult to explain the structure of the site without to much detail but the simplest way is to think of it as a wanted item site, where a user submits a small amount of unique data (Typ <60 characters) and this is then listed. There is an index type page with 50 user entries and each of these has a link to a page that contains the same text but with an ability for someone else to reply & some more detail (this is invisible to Google as much of the extra content will not appear until logged in). The index type page also contains further links to other index pages (page 1, 2, 3 etc).
As the site grew the number of links to other index pages reached page 120 or so and we ended up with pages containing 175+ navigation links to pages containing near dupe content (the detail pages) and other index pages (page 1,2,3 etc) that contained more dupes and more index pages etc... I think this is what caused much of the site to go supplemental.
Most of the detail pages and all but one of the index pages are listed supplemental. All the standard content is in the main index (about us, links, normal content etc)
I have now put a noindex on all the detail pages and changed the index page navigation to only show links to upto 10 other pages and am waiting with baited breath to see if (and when) we get forgiven.
[edited by: Gissit at 6:22 pm (utc) on Nov. 15, 2006]
Niche companies can be very successful but they are still small, that's why they are 'niche'.
then they shouldn't have to worry about being squeezed out of the search results then should they?
Oh, unless there are 'big boys' with 'deep pockets' in their niche :)
Yes, but it was the best (until everyone figured out how it worked). That's why it's succeeded - it offered something new.
And back then I expect people were complaining about not listing at the top of Yahoo etc.
If someone could genuinely build something better and market it better than G then, even today, it could grow to overtake the big boys.
Then in ten years when it held a monopoly on the market someone would start a thread on here claiming that their site should rank higher than Johnny's but doesn't because (insert - big long list of gripes) and that <besteversearchengine.com> was manipulating the results to please its shareholders and should listen to the webmasters cos they know best and it is their web anyway
Google indexed about 30% of the possible URLs for the thread, and then dumped more than 90% of what they had indexed to supplemental after a few weeks.
When I previously looked (about a week ago) a lot of the duplicates were at that time, shown as URL-only entries on some datacentres.
Now I see them as supplemental.
We list bazillions of pages in our main index that have no external
backlinks; PageRank can flow *within* a site. While it's super to get
links to internal pages from admiring fans, it's not a requirement in
order for those deep pages to appear in the main index.
This, by the way, doesn't mean that you should go *hog wild* with
internal crosslinking (it'll only confuse your users and fail to
provide any additional ranking benefits), but it's a great idea to have
a regular sitemap and/or reasonable Web of related links within your
own site. That's not just good for Google, it's good for your users...
because they can then (ideally) find any page/product/service on your
Google Groups link [groups.google.com]
[edited by: encyclo at 11:20 pm (utc) on Nov. 20, 2006]
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I had some rtml programming done in which my title tags would use the main category if fell under in the title
For examle:
let's say I have a website selling cars
Lets say I have a category called "Used Cars"
Now lets say under used cars there are 100 pages and my title on my pages read like this.
Ford Truck - Used Cars
Honda - Used Cars
Toyota - Used Cars
You get the idea. My question is this. Will my pages go supplemental because my title tags keep repeating the word "Used Cars" for those 100 pages? Or is this ok?
If not, what would be the correct way to write these title tags?
Many sites that have top ranking on Google in my industry show no duplicate title or description tags. With all being equal in my title tags on my product pages all include category name in title where they came from.
So if I have 100 items in that category the item and the category name get displayed as the title tag and as a result 100 of which are using the same keyword.
So I am putting 2 + 2 together and seeing my competitors who are not doing this are getting top rankings and my site is all supplemental.
Also I have been reading on other forums that repeated title tags in this matter CAN possibly cause supplemental problems.
So is it better to be on the safe side and remove these repeat title tags? It wouldn't hurt if I remove this, right?
Except for the homepage my entire website is in Supplemental Index.
About two weeks ago I made the recommended changes that I have read on this forum to try and get out of the supplemental index on Google.
Here is what I have noticed in the last two weeks after my changes:
when I did a search as "site:mydomain.com" Before my changes to the website I had 689 pages indexed all supplemental. Since that time and after my changes I now have 1850 pages index but again all supplemental except for the homepage.
Can I take this as a positive sign that Google is crawling my site more and grabing more pages even though they are still being place in supplemental?
Keep in mind my site is about 1 year old.....I had title tag issues and also duplicate content issues which all have been corrected two weeks back.
Can I assume that google is preparing to send me back to the main index?
Does anybody have any experience with this? Is is this a clear sign that I may be getting out?


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Restricted free agent receiver Mike Wallace says he wants to stay with the Pittsburgh Steelers, but he understands that might not occur given the team's salary-cap situation.
In an interview with SiriusXM NFL Radio Wednesday afternoon, Wallace said via the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Pittsburgh is "where I would like to be, but we all know that it is a business and you have certain things you have to handle. So if I have to go elsewhere, you know Pittsburgh will always be in my heart, but I have to do what I have to do."
Wallace, a Pro Bowl selection in 2011 who has put up more than 1,100 receiving yards the past two seasons, will be a hot commodity because of his age (25), big-play ability (he has averaged 18.7 yards per catch over his first three seasons) and durability (he has yet to miss a game).
Restricted free agents normally don't stir up much interest in the NFL because the original team can match any offer. But in this case, the Steelers' cap troubles — they are at least $5 million over the projected cap, according to the Tribune-Review — might not allow them to match a rich offer when free agency opens March 13.
The Tribune-Review reported that it's also unlikely the Steelers can clear enough cap space to put the franchise tag on Wallace by the March 5 deadline. The wide receiver franchise number is expected to be $9.4 million.
In the interview, Wallace said his agent, Bus Cook, and the Steelers are talking about a contract extension. But Wallace didn't sound overly optimistic.
"Yeah, we are talking, but I don't know how far they are going to get right now because of the (cap) situation," Wallace said. "I know that they are working hard trying to take care of it, but I don't know. We'll see."
If another team signs Wallace to an offer sheet the Steelers can't match, it would have to give Pittsburgh a first-round pick in return. But that wouldn't be a big price to pay considering Wallace is entering his prime and has difference-making speed.


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Smugglers Cove
It's not uncommon to stumble upon alligators as you make your way around a mini-golf course. But at Smugglers Cove's locations, live American alligators snap their jaws in exhibits nestled amid the miniature fairways. With an old-fashioned bamboo pole players can dangle a treat above 20–50 of the predatory alligators. Between feeding frenzies, games take place on Smugglers Cove's 18-hole outdoor courses, where balls roll past rushing waterfalls, into caves, over mountainous terrain, and into a hole in a pirate ship.


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Here's a very nice little video that was done by photographer Karl Taylor. He put together a series of tests, consisting of different types of light, and showing you how the quality differs from one to another. He went all the way from the Broncolor Parabolic modifiers, to a softbox, to a beauty dish, and to the famous Para 222. For each Para, Karl would take one shot for each position of the lightsource: all the way in, middle, and all the way out. It's quite an informative test that a lot of you will find useful.
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There is little glamor at Kawasaki Racetrack. Under grubby baseball caps, cigarettes and pencil stubs are jammed behind the ears of tense punters. The odor of ramen wafts along the betting slip-littered corridors and stairways under the stands.
The racetrack terraces host a variety of customers: An elderly man curses his bad luck in the previous race; a teenage boy busily scribbles down a request from someone calling his cellphone; and a young couple get racy on their own.
There's no nonsense here, no horsing around. "Oi, foreigner!" bellows a rotund punter from the back of the line as I try to make sense of the automatic betting machines. "We haven't got all %*$#ing day!"
I turn to smile an apology, only to be met by a sea of frowning faces. That my bet was a miserly 100 yen — the minimum wager — is something I decide to keep to myself.
It soon transpires, however, that I need not have worried. According to one elderly visitor the wild and reckless betting days of the bubble years are long gone. "Take a look," he says pointing to the discarded betting slips on the terraces. "It'll take you a while to find one that's more than 100 yen."
Japan's recession has dealt a heavy blow to the likes of this track, one of 27 in Japan operated by local governments. According to a recent Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries report, each of the 24 local governments that run the racecourses were in the red in 2000.
Financial woes have already forced the closure of three local tracks in the last 12 months — Niigata and Sanjo racecourses in Niigata Prefecture and Nakatsu in Oita Prefecture. Meanwhile, the Saitama-run Urawa Racing Association, which oversees Urawa Racecourse, posted debts of 460 million yen last year, and officials announced that it may face closure after this year. Tracks in Yamagata and Aichi prefectures reportedly face a similar plight.
While horse racing has a long history in Japan, it wasn't until after the war that local government racing was established, independent from the national system, to provide a boost to local economies.
Today, some 23 percent of the total turnover from races is used by local governments to maintain the tracks and support educational and cultural projects. Overall guidance is provided by the National Association of Racing, a government-affiliated body set up in 1962. (National racing — which offers a higher standard of racing, prestige and prize money — is administered by the Japan Racing Association.)
According to NAR data, while betting at regional tracks peaked at almost 1 trillion yen in 1991, it has been downhill since. In 2001, sales were 520 billion yen, just half that of a decade earlier.
Falling attendances and betting stakes, as well as a disinterested younger generation, are cited as the main contributing factors. An additional factor that helped seal the fate of Niigata's tracks — which closed in March with a 6.7 billion yen deficit — has been a change in lifestyles, according to prefectural official Toshiyuki Uematsu.
"There are more leisure options available these days, and in this harsh economy, people have to make a choice," Uematsu commented. "Unfortunately, in Niigata they weren't choosing racing."
Since sales began to fall in the mid-1990s, organizers, guided by the NAR, have been searching for ways to reverse the downward spiral. Among them is a reduction of the number of race days and increased automation at racetracks. Another was the introduction of night racing at the Kawasaki and Oi racetracks.
Meanwhile, the NAR and JRA have joined forces to introduce a number of annual races that assemble local- and national-level horses. These events appeal to racing fans because an unknown dark horse could easily upset a favorite.
Off-course betting was also introduced. Now punters can bet at their local racetrack, designated betting facilities or over the telephone on races being held at other local government tracks. Off-course betting now accounts for more than 50 percent of total betting, according to NAR official Toshiyuki Takahashi, adding that this fall NAR plans to introduce betting via the Internet and DoCoMo's i-mode.
Local racetracks have also started to cooperate with others nearby to rotate race days and cut costs. In the south Kanto region, Kawasaki, Urawa and Funabashi in Chiba Prefecture and Oi in Shinagawa Ward now operate on this basis, offering off-course betting for each other's race days.
Are the new NAR policies producing results? While overall betting revenues are currently at a 28-year low, Takahashi is quick to point out that average daily revenues actually rose 2.2 percent in 2001 over the previous year. "Granted, there has been a decrease, caused by closures, in the overall number of race days, but our primary concern is to ensure no more tracks suffer the same fate."
For some enthusiasts, however, such moves to make racing more accessible only highlight the inferior status of regional racing.
"There is zero romance in local racing," says Akira Naoi, a veteran tipster. "It's purely an outlet for gambling. That's half the problem."
His sentiments were echoed by several visitors to the Oi track one rainy afternoon this month, when a few hundred punters huddled under the stands and peered out through the driving rain at a huge video screen providing live coverage of the day's races in nearby Funabashi. When one race finished, they rushed to the betting machines to bet on the next.
"I admit this is not fun in the Disneyland sense," says one punter, a businessman in his mid-50s who lives in the area. "National racing is an event, a place where horse racing becomes a sport, not just betting. The Oi racetrack, though, is simply a convenient location."
Asked about the pros and cons of regional over national races, one visitor in his 30s commented that while the latter operates solely at weekends, the former is almost daily. "But there is no doubt that here, the glamor of racing is found in the national system."
Tipster Naoi believes that the remedies offered by the NAR are purely short term, and that unless the NAR and JRA cooperate more, at least half the remaining regional tracks will close in the next few years.
"The punters are mainly retirees placing 100 yen bets on mostly second-rate races," he said. "If something isn't done to change that, then regional racing's days are surely numbered."


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Lisburn man Colin McCard's sponsored swim in aid of the Benjamin Murphy Appeal has been made all the more poignant by the death of little Ben.
Colin had originally undertaken the swim to raise money to send blood donors over to Great Ormond Street Hospital to help Ben recover from a bone marrow transplant.
Unfortunately six year old Ben, who suffered from rare disorder of the immune system called Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), sadly passed away and his funeral was held in St Patrick's Parish Church, Lisburn on Tuesday morning (August 12).
Despite this, Colin made the decision to continue with the swim and on Saturday August 9 he completed a two mile sponsored swim across Ballymastocker Strand to Portsalon Pier.
Colin's wife, Monica, said the whole family were tremendously proud of his achievement, after completing the swim in one hour and forty minutes.
"What an amazing day it was," said Monica.
"People lined the pier at Portsalon pier to welcome him in, as did our friends at the beach in which he began his swim from.
"The whole family are incredibly proud of him. He's our hero.
"We have known Ben's family for a long time.
"They are our friends and neighbours and our hearts are breaking for them.
"I am so proud of the journey my husband went through to get to the end of a difficult and long swim.
"He had the help of a boat from the Stores at Portsalon and in that boat was a good friend Andrew Casey, who was the one to cheer him on, help deal with the leg cramps and just pick him up when he thought he couldn't carry on.
"We are so tremendously overwhelmed by the support we received here at home but also in Donegal."
People are still donating to the appeal and to date Colin has raised over £500, which will be donated to the Benjamin Murphy Appeal.
The money raised by the appeal will be donated to the Make a Wish Foundation and Great Ormond Street Hospital.


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At Microsoft's Xbox Reveal event today, a new, next-gen version of FIFA Soccer 14 was confirmed by EA for Xbox One using EA's new Ignite Engine.
EA confirmed that FIFA would appear at today's event via Facebook yesterday, marking the first next-gen FIFA to be shown off thus far.
FIFA 14 was announced by EA last month for release on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC later this year. For more, read about its new features.


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SACRAMENTO >> Nearly a million ballots cast in Tuesday's primary election have not been counted yet, Secretary of State Debra Bowen reported Friday.
Elections officials in all 58 counties provided estimates to the state as they wade through ballots dropped off at polls and provisional votes cast on Election Day, which total 991,699.
That 991,699 number includes more than 6,000 from Yolo County. The county Elections Office reported there were 5,828 unprocessed ballots still to be counted from various polling places, 1,078 provisional ballots, and 276 damaged ballots.
Efforts were apparently continuing Friday to get those 5,828 ballots counted as quickly as possible.
Statewide, several high-profile races were still too close to call, including who finished second for controller, where only 1,400 votes separate Republican accountant David Evans and two Democrats, former Speaker John Perez and Board of Equalization member Betty Yee.
Locally, the uncounted ballots were not expected to affect the District 4 Assembly race in which Napa County Supervisor Bill Dodd captured 15,222 votes, compared to Yolo County resident Charlie Schaupp, who had 15,223. Neither of the two Davis candidates in the race, Dan Wolk or Joe Krovoza, are expected to pick up enough votes to upset the present results.
Statewide, meanwhile, the registrars have so far counted nearly 3.4 million ballots cast Tuesday, which puts turnout at 19.2 percent. With the outstanding ballots, turnout could approach 25 percent, which would be a record low for a regular election in California but better than some forecasts.
The previous low for a non-presidential primary was 33.1 percent in June 2010. Turnout was 28.2 percent in June 2008, an anomaly when the state split the presidential and primary elections.
Many of the uncounted votes are from permanent absentee voters who receive their ballots in the mail but do not return them by mail. More of those voters appear to be getting their ballots early then sitting on them and turning them in at a polling place on Election Day, which delays the vote count, said Paul Mitchell, vice president of Political Data Inc., a consulting firm that tracks voter data.
Tuesday was the first statewide election in which the top two vote-getters advance to November regardless of their party affiliation.
Experts blame the low turnout on a lack of exciting races to draw voters, such as a competitive race for governor or citizen-led ballot initiatives, which the state Legislature have permanently moved to the general election.


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Updated 8:56 p.m. Eastern Time
UPDATE: The Senate has now voted down the House plan.
(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON - The Democratic-controlled Senate on Friday night killed the House's Republican-backed plan to raise the government's borrowing cap and avert a calamitous U.S. default next week amid a torturous political standoff.
Senate Democrats and several Republicans killed the measure in a 59-41 vote just minutes after it arrived from the House of Representatives. Democrats opposed the measure because it would require another painful debt-limit debate early next year amid presidential campaigning.
Earlier, House Republicans had narrowly passed an altered version of their plan to raise the debt limit.
The bill passed 218 to 210, with the support of no Democrats. 22 Republicans voted against the bill, including presidential candidates Reps. Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul. Eleven of the 22 no votes were from House freshmen. Republicans needed 216 votes for passage.
House Speaker John Boehner was able to win over skeptical fiscal conservatives by requiring that a second debt ceiling increase roughly six months from now be tied to passage of a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution - something that would require a two thirds majority in both the House and the Senate. Boehner had to cancel a planned vote on the measure last night because he did not have the votes for passage.
The bill will now go to the Senate, where Democrats have vowed to vote it down tonight. They plan to move forward on an alternate plan that would cut around $2 trillion in spending and extend the nation's borrowing authority through 2012. It's not clear that that plan has the 60 votes necessarily get out of the Senate, however, let alone pass the Republican-led House.
Democrats say the House GOP plan, which would reduce spending by $917 billion over ten years, is unacceptable because it would initially only increase the debt limit for about six months. That, they say, will create economic uncertainty, put the United States' Triple-A credit rating at risk and require another difficult debt limit debate during the holiday season.
"Now that yet another political exercise is behind us, with time dwindling, leaders need to start working together immediately to reach a compromise that avoids default and lays the basis for balanced deficit reduction," White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement after the vote.
"Senator Reid's proposal is a basis for that compromise," he continued. "It not only achieves more deficit reduction than the bill passed in the House today and puts a process in place to achieve even more savings, it also removes the uncertainty surrounding the risk of default. The President urges Democrats and Republicans in the Senate to find common ground on a plan that can get support from both parties in the House - a plan the President can sign by Tuesday."
Boehner took to the House floor Friday afternoon shortly before the vote, saying he has "worked since the first week of this session... to avoid being where we are right this moment."
Special report: America's debt battle
Boehner said he "stuck my neck out a mile to try to get an agreement with the President of the United States," but that "a lot of people in this town can never say yes." To cheers from his caucus, he called on Democrats and the White House to "end this crisis now."
There is virtually no chance that a Balanced Budget Amendment could get the two-thirds majority necessary for passage in both chambers. (To go into effect, it would also need to be ratified by three-fourths of the states.) If Congress ends up passing some sort of compromise legislation between the Senate and House plans, the Balanced Budget Amendment will almost surely be stripped out.
Video: Default could spike mortgage costs
President Obama on Friday morning urged lawmakers to come to a bipartisan solutionto reach a deal to increase the nation's $14.3 trillion debt limit before Tuesday's deadline.
"The time for putting party first is over. The time for compromise on behalf of the American people is now," Mr. Obama said. "And I'm confident that we can solve this problem."
The addition of the Balanced Budget Amendment provision actually moves the House plan further to the right. But it appears to be the only way for Boehner and his leadership team to save face and pass a Republican version of a bill to raise the debt ceiling in the last days before the deadline is reached.
Mr. Obama dismissed the Republican plan Friday, saying it "has no chance of becoming law." He urged lawmakers to take up a plan from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid or a plan put forward earlier by Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell as the basis for a bipartisan agreement.
Reid's plan makes similar cuts to the first step of the Boehner plan, but it also includes about $1 trillion in savings tied to ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- something the United States is already planning to do. Republicans say the Reid plan is grounded in accounting tricks and doesn't do enough to address the nation's massive deficit and debt problem.
Mr. Obama warned Friday morning that if an agreement isn't reached, the U.S. may lose its Triple-A credit rating "not because we didn't have the capacity to pay our bills -- we do. But because we didn't have a triple-A political system to match our triple-A credit rating."
If the United States' credit rating were downgraded, it would be harder to borrow money, and interest rates would potentially increase across the board. "That's inexcusable," Mr. Obama said. "There are a lot of crises in the world we can't always predict or avoid... This isn't one of those crises."


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Are you going through a bad breakup? Do you feel that the world is at an end? Well, it is all the more reason for you to relax, pamper yourself, or for men, just have a big hangout with the best friends, to ensure you do not wallow in self-pity.
Breakups are a very common phenomenon among the younger crowd, as well as the older ones. It is all the more painful if you truly believe that you have met your soul mate in that person, and suddenly he or she is being snatched away. So, how do we deal with your situation? By reading the tips on online?
There are several ways to deal with such a crisis in life, and one of the most crucial among them is to recognize what went wrong, or why you are in this situation in the first place. Let us look at some of the common reasons why the breakups occur in a relationship and how to deal with them.
Reason 1 – No time to contribute to a relationship
One of the most common causes of a breakup is when the couple cannot find a chance to meet each other, talk or just relax and unwind in each other's company. A few snatched moments, and a Date here and there, with all the discussions about the 'Work' or project that they are dealing with, can put a lot of pressure on the friendship.
Remember that while it is okay to talk about work, all 'Work and no play' can make any relationship go dull and boring. Ensure that while you talk about work pressures and relieve your stress with the person you love, ask about their life, and talk about some mundane things, to recreate the magic.
Reason – 2 – Absence makes heart shift over the affection to someone else
Well, 'Absence can make the heart fonder,' if your relationship has a firm footing from the beginning. A few months of snatching moments, and drifting apart, living in different parts of the world, can be quite harmful to your relationship.
Since one cannot avoid traveling for work, or for studies, what you can do, is to ensure you meet up at least a few months one, to reestablish the 'magic' in the relation. Proximity to another soul, equally attractive, and lovable can very well cut the cord on the present friendship. However, similarly, if that is what your ex-wants, and would like to break things with you since he or she has fallen in love with someone else, you cannot do anything about it. It is time to learn to let go and accept the situation.
Reason – 3 – Constant bickering and pestering can cause the rift
Are you a person who is over possessive, and would like to know where your 'ex' is all the time? Do you have a few friends of your own whom you hang out with, or you are the person who wants your 'One' special man or woman in life to be with you always?
Possessiveness, bickering for small things and constant pestering can damper the spirits of a relationship like none other. It is believed by the experts that such things happen when a person is not 'confident' about the relationship, or is always in doubt. If that happens, then your companionship is doomed from the beginning.
Hence, look deeply into the mistakes or the reasons why your relationship has ended, and work on it positively, to get your ex back.


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Police Arrest Fresno Gang Member With Loaded Gun In Rival Territory
Police on Wednesday arrested a gang member in southeast Fresno with a loaded gun.{}
Andrew Renteria, 21, was arrested in the area of Cedar and Church avenues before officers saw hiding behind a tree, police said.
Officers searched Renteria, who is on probation, and found a loaded gun.{}
Renteria was in a rival gang territory and may have been preparing to shoot, police said.


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Unable to mount root fs on 03:01, after init.
using syslinux as the bootloader. 1gb fat16 partition.
boot : bzImage init=initrd.gz root=/dev/hda1
VFS: Cannot open root device 03:01
any help on this ?
Linux cannot run on FAT. The root partition needs to be one of the *nix supported file systems (Ext2/3, Reiser, XFS, etc).
shit. thanks then.
You could change the boot line to "root=/dev/ram" which would load Linux into a RAMDRIVE (assuming the kernel has RAM drive support compiled in, anyway).
What exactly are you trying to do?
trying to *make* a distribution without all of the crap. trying to understand the way linux works.
I think I got it :D :D
I made the kernel load itself into the ram - and it all appears to be working. Thanks guys.
Is there any disadvantage of this ?
Well, running out of RAM makes it a "live" distro. It doesn't need a hard disk to run.
What exactly is initrd.gz ? :confused:
it is a ramdisk that provides modules for the kernel before the root partition can be mounted
for example, if you compile ext3 support as a module, and your root partition is in ext3, the kernel doesn't know how to read your filesystem in order to load the module.... so initrd just puts the module in ram
*edit: .gz means it is gzipped
I am all overthe place with this project, so thanks for the help. thanks for baring with my rude language too, i was shatterd yestorday.
1) Am I correct that syslinux can only boot from fat partitions ?
2) To change initrd.gz, can I quite literally unzip it ?
3) If my kernel is on an ext3 partition, and syslinux boots that kernel, does that mean the kernel has ext3 support?
syslinux is a boot loader correct? did you install it separately or did it come with your distro?
i don't know anything about syslinux... if it can only be installed on fat32 partitions (like powerquest's bootmagic) then it is probably only able to boot from fat32 partitions; in that case, you will probably want to look into using a lilo or grub boot loader
initrd doesn't need to be "changed" but should be rebuilt every time you compile a kernel; you can gunzip it and mount it in a ramdisk if you want to see its contents, but its contents are already going to be in /lib/modules/kernel-version/
to build a new initrd, i believe you simply have to do make initrd after doing make modules && make modules_install
if your kernel can mount your ext3 root partition, then it only means it has some way of understanding the ext3 format; to find out if ext3 is a module or kernel driver (builtin to the kernel), check lsmod or just go into your kernel source and do make menuconfig
I am a semi newbie. I have been using redhat 9 and then fedora core for a year, but never delved into the actual operations of linux or console based operations. I am buying a laptop for college and so am experimenting with distros now on my desktop to decide what to put on the laptop. Here is my problem:
I am trying to install slackware 9.1 but get this same message. I used fdisk to partition and then slackware's setup formatting and installation of lilo. I made hda1 bootable in fdisk. I used the reiserfs(?) format, and am at a loss. I suppose I will try with ext3.
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Wise men said - Honesty is the best policy. They obviously didn't know Ned Stark or watch Game of Thrones.
One thing that Game of Thrones repeatedly teaches us is that honesty is of very little practical use in politics and life in general. Ned Stark is the best example of how honesty and honour can get a person killed and his family destroyed.
Ned Stark - the Honourable Hero and Fool
Ned Stark, the lord of Winterfell was loved and respected by everyone in his land solely due to his stoic sense of honesty and honour, until the Lannisters started fearing him for that very quality, which eventually got him executed.
When Prince Joffrey lied to the King about how Arya's wolf attacked him without any provocation, the wolf was nowhere no be found. However, Queen Cersei demanded that Sansa's wolf be killed instead, as a punishment to the Stark girls.
King Robert Baratheon was Ned Stark's friend and was in a very benevolent mood that evening, almost willing to believe Arya, knowing what a piece of jackass his own son Joffrey was.
What does Ned do?
- He decides to honour the wishes of Cersei and kills Sansa's wolf with his own hands - for what? Honour and righteousness - what a hypocrisy!
- If Ned was so righteous, he should have believed in justice for the wrongdoer, Joffrey in this case, not punishment for the victims - Arya and her friend, the butcher's son.
- At the very least, Ned could have just released Sansa's wolf into the wilderness and claimed it dead - who would question a lord? Even 10-year old Arya had the good sense to make her wolf escape.
|Ned Stark: Sorry Summer, I choose honour over trust in my own daughter, therefore I must kill you.
Golden rule 1
ALWAYS put your family first. Duty and honour comes later, especially when it is for a lazy, drunken, man-whore of a king and his mean, lying wife and son.
Ned knew that Petyr Baelish was a disgruntled ex-lover of his wife Lady Catelyn (probably loved her even now). When Catelyn insisted that Baelish would help them investigate the previous Hand of the King, John Arryn's suspected murder, Ned decided to trust him.
Golden rule 2
NEVER trust the ex-lover of your wife, especially when he still claims to love her.
Ned Stark - This Time Just a Fool
Once in King's Landing, Petyr started feeding information to Ned Stark about King Robert's bastard children and Jon Arryn's quest to track them down before he was poisoned. While chasing the leads, Ned discovered Joffrey and all other children of Cersei had been fathered by her twin brother Jaime Lannister aka the Kingslayer.
An outrageously stupid Ned confronted Queen Cersei and threatened to reveal her deadly secret once King Robert was back from hunting. Desperate to protect her acts of deceit, Cersei had Robert drugged during the hunt where he got attacked by a wild boar.
What does Ned do?
- He continued to stay in King's Landing after his only friend, the king has been fatally attacked and he is surrounded by enemies who have openly threatened him.
- Renly asked Ned to join him and take over the throne. Ned refuses and tells him that Stannis is the true heir to the throne. Looks around you Ned, where is Stannis?
Golden rule 3
When you learn a deadly secret about your vicious enemy, you DO NOT go confront them and then reveal your next plans to them.
The lazy drunken king was dead, after he signed a parchment specifying Ned Stark would act as the guardian of the Joffrey and rule until Joffrey came of age. This was done with no witnesses present, a common sense that two big leaders should have had. When Ned gives the parchment to Queen Cersei, she tears it up in front of the entire court and demands Ned to bow before Joffrey.
Golden rule 4
A will has ABSOLUTELY NO VALUE unless there are witnesses.
Ned Stark - Takes Foolishness to a New Level
After being cornered in the court, Ned Stark should have just pretended to swear allegiance to Cersei and Joffrey, knowing that two of his daughters, Sansa and Arya were at the mercy of the Lannisters.
What does Ned do?
- He trusts Petyr Baelish once again and actually believes that the Kingsguard would rebel against the new king.
Golden rule 5
When in enemy's camp, it is better to bend than to break. You cannot take your revenge if you are dead.
After the series of betrayal from several people and living in the dungeons for several days, Lord Varys tells Ned Stark to confess to treason so that his life may be spared and his daughters will be safe. While Varys did have Ned's best interest at heart - look around you Ned! There are traitors everywhere. Do not believe in their promises.
What does Ned do?
- He publicly confesses to a crime he did not commit and faced execution anyway.
Golden rule 6
NEVER confess to a crime you did not commit, especially when the enemy is demanding a confession. If you have to go down, go down as an innocent man rather than a confessed traitor.
Golden rule 7
Learn from your past mistakes. Do not repeat the same mistakes again and again.
As you can see, a true man of honour should also know the value of justice. One cannot exist without the other. The innocent should never be punished and the guilty should never go unpunished. The one who stoops to honour and duty without reason is stupid and cowardly.


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March Metal Madness 2016, Round 1 – Vote!
It's March and you know what that means! As the NCAA 'March Madness' college basketball tournament creates a frenzy as everyone scrambles to fill out a bracket to predict the winner, we're continuing a tradition of our own: March Metal Madness! It doesn't matter if you like basketball or not, we only have one prerequisite — you have to be a metal fan! In this year's March Metal Madness, we're starting off with 32 tracks from the new millennium as they fight for the right to be crowned the Best Metal Song of the 21st Century.
Bands old and new are squaring off head-to-head after being divided into four regions: Headbanger, Stave Dive, Devil Horn and Mosh Pit. There's no easy region out there with bands like Slipknot, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Disturbed, System of a Down, Five Finger Death Punch, Tool and more to content with. All the matchups in each region can be seen below.
Each band will need your votes to send their song into the next round. Voting in Round 1 is under way, so click the red button below to begin! Fans can vote in each matchup once per hour until the poll closes for Round 1 at 9AM on Tuesday, March 8. Keep coming back to make sure your favorites make it to the next round in our March Metal Madness tournament to determine the Best Metal Song of the 21st Century!


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Started as a motorcycle enthusiast site that just wanted to get the word out about local rides and events, it has become the go-to place for bike events across the country and your resource for charity and poker runs. We spend our time and effort to make sure you can spend more time on your bike. Thanks to our sponsors and advertisers for helping keep this site running for your benefit.


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TIA releases tire safety videoComments Email
BOWIE, Md. (June 5, 2014) —The Tire Industry Association has released "Tire Safety Starts with Inspection," the latest video in its "Tire Safety Starts with…" series.
TIA released the video June 4.
"Tire Safety Starts with Inspection" covers the regular inspection procedures motorists should follow to check their tires for sufficient tread depth and irregular wear, TIA said.
The video also includes animation that explains pinch shock, which causes a bulge to appear on a tire sidewall after hitting a pothole, curb or road hazard, according to the association.
The video is available on YouTube or on TIA's website, www.tireindustry.org.
For a free download, contact Donna Sage, TIA director of marketing and communications, via email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
TIA said it also is encouraging dealers to provide customers with a link to the video.


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Health law initiative lets states save by melding Medicare, Medicaid
WASHINGTON – In the nearly 50 years since Medicaid and Medicare were enacted, the two health care programs – one for the poor and the other for the elderly and disabled – have remained separate, with different rules, duplicative benefits and conflicting financial incentives. The result has been wasted money and disjointed care for more than 10 million "dual eligibles," the Americans who qualify for both programs.
Massachusetts, which provided the model for the Affordable Care Act, is the first state to take advantage of an Affordable Care Act initiative designed to give dual eligibles better care at a lower cost. In 2011, the new Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office began awarding $1 million planning grants to participating states and made critical Medicare data available to them for the first time. Now, instead of carrying separate cards for Medicare and Medicaid, dual eligibles in Massachusetts who are enrolled in the state's One Care program will get a single health plan and a case manager to coordinate their care.
Other states are preparing to follow. California will begin participating in May, and these states will join later this year and in 2015: Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Washington.
The stakes are high: As a group, dual eligibles make up 15 percent of all Medicaid enrollees but account for nearly 40 percent of all costs, or about $109.9 billion in 2009, according to the most recent federal statistics. For Medicare, they represent 20 percent of all enrollees and more than 30 percent of costs, or $162.1 billion in 2009.
Under the initiative, state Medicaid programs and the federal Medicare agency agree to split any cost savings that result from the experiment. Most states are contracting with managed care organizations to integrate the two plans.
Boston resident Dennis Heaphy, 52, a quadriplegic who is an advocate for people with disabilities, said he and others are closely monitoring Massachusetts' experiment.
"We feel a real responsibility to get it right, because everybody in the country is watching us," he said.
For dual eligibles, it can be difficult to keep track of who pays for what. Furthermore, experts believe that misaligned financial incentives in the two programs have cost states and the federal government billions of dollars.
For example, in as many as 40 percent of cases, the hospitalization of a nursing home resident might have been avoided if the nursing home had provided adequate medical care, according to a report from the Urban Institute. But states, which pay for nursing home care through Medicaid, have no financial interest in correcting the problem, since the federal government pays hospital bills through Medicare.


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Siobhan O'Connor,
a consecrated member of Regnum Christi, shares her experience of
the International Eucharistic Congress.
Dublin, Ireland -- This past
June 10-17, my family made our first ever trip to
the Emerald Isle, for two reasons: one was
for the 50th International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin and the
other was to explore our Irish heritage on my Dad's
side of the family. The occasion? To celebrate my parents'
40th wedding anniversary.
June 10: Arrival
We arrived on the feast of
Corpus Christi for the opening Mass of the Congress. Complete with beautiful Gaelic music and rays of unusual
Irish sunshine, the Royal Dublin Society stadium was only half
full but the crowd was brimming with Canadians…about 1,200 of
Kathe and Siobhan O'Connor
them were there to show their support after the last
Congress held in Quebec. Cardinal Marc Ouellet, who is from
Quebec and now works in the Vatican, presided over that
Congress four years ago, and this time around, he was
the papal legate for the Dublin event. The
theme of the entire week was Communion with Christ and
One Another.
June 11: Communion in One Baptism
One of the talks that most
impressed my sister and me was given by Br. Alois
Löser, prior of the Taizé Community in France.
He spoke eloquently about the ecumenical efforts that he and
his brothers are undertaking at their monastery to bring all
Christians closer together in the one faith and one baptism
that we share as Christians. While he himself is Catholic,
there are brothers of the community who belong to different
denominations, yet they are all living a community life rooted
in the Eucharist and the Scriptures, which was fascinating.
June 12: Communion in Marriage and Family
On this day, because we wanted
to sightsee in Dublin, instead of going to the talks
we tried to live the theme out as a family,
travelling together throughout Dublin City and touring famous sites such
as Trinity College, where we explored the Book of Kells
and the Trinity Long Hall library. The treat for my
Dad was our afternoon tour of the gigantic Guinness factory
where they make that black brew the Irish love so
much! Note for all interested: they
give you two free pints as you make your way
through six floors of the factory…
June 13: Priesthood
and Ministry in the Service of Communion
This day was definitely a highlight
for me. My Mom's dream was to participate in the
Eucharistic Procession around the RDS stadium that evening. Miraculously, the
weather stayed clear, and thousands of pilgrims from all over
the world joined in this event. I personally loved seeing
an African group of women who wore dresses and headscarves
with the logo of the Congress printed all over them! Cardinal Ouellet carried the monstrance under a canopy
and then gave us all Benediction. During the
procession, we prayed five decades of the rosary and also
meditated on texts that were read out over loudspeaker from
people such as Blessed John Paul II and Blessed Teresa
of Calcutta.
A great sense of jubilation pervaded this
walk through the streets as we accompanied Jesus, especially at
this period of history for the Irish Church.
To have a public display of faith was a witness
for all those who did not even know that the
Congress was taking place or who no longer believe in
the real Presence. Having been in this place
spiritually once myself, I thought about how powerful such a
moment might be for the curious on-lookers.
As the
crowd slowly left the RDS grounds, we heard the sound
of bagpipes. Six members of the Irish Army
were playing Amazing Grace and they quickly got an international
group of supporters who urged them to keep playing!
June 14: Last Day of the Congress
This was our last day at the Congress
because we had family sightseeing to do in a few
short days. There were several churches throughout Dublin
that offered Mass in different languages. The closest
one to us was actually run by Opus Dei priests. A bonus came after the Mass when the
pastor exposed the Blessed Sacrament and then two young men
with a guitar sang beautifully as a way to help
pilgrims pray. In that moment of prayer, my
eyes were closed and I thought they had put on
a professional CD recording. It was only a
little later when I got up to leave that I
noticed the live singers!
Later that morning, we rented
a car (with the steering wheel on the right side)
and my Dad drove on the left hand side of
the road all the way from Dublin to County Sligo
to explore our ancestry.
15-18: The Final Days in Dublin
June 15th and 16th completed a virtual
whirlwind of activity for the O'Connor Clan. We
met relatives we had never seen before and stayed at
the original O'Connor Manor at Clonalis, in Castlerea, Co., Roscommon. On Friday, the Feast of the Sacred Heart
of Jesus, we went to visit the shrine of Our
Lady of Knock for Mass, adoration, confession and prayer. That afternoon we caught the last tour time of
the famous Sligo Abbey, the site of a now ruined
monastery from the 7th century which is deeply connected to
the O'Connors from Connaught, another family tie.
On Saturday June 16th, my sister and I attended the
Vigil Mass at the Dublin Airport since we were flying
out Sunday morning while my parents were going to spend
The O'Connor family celebrates a wedding anniversary
a few more days in Ireland. We were
a little sad at not being able to attend the
closing ceremony in Croke Park with over 75,000 pilgrims, but
the young priest in this airport chapel suddenly announced before
Mass that we were going to sing the Eucharistic Congress
theme song Though We Are Many, We are One Body
as the opening and closing hymn, which lifted our hearts. He also gave a rousing homily about how
we need to keep our faith alive though trials…a needed
message for all believers inside and outside of Ireland.
At the end of Mass, my sister and I met
the young organist who was going to be singing in
the choir for Sunday's closing Mass. Connor relayed to us
the contrast between the 1932 Congress where they had the
Eucharistic procession in downtown Dublin, constructed a high altar on
O'Connell Street, the main thoroughfare, and Eucharistic benediction was attended
by a million people. This Congress' procession was
much more subdued, took place outside of Dublin city center
and benediction was given from a small altar on the
back of a large parked truck. In addition,
the crowd was half international and half Irish.
For me, the entire experience was one of reconciliation,
healing and peace. Those three words came to
me in every moment of prayer we had before the
Blessed Sacrament and in Knock. You probably know
of the tumultuous year that the Church in Ireland has
been through, and also that we as consecrated women in
Regnum Christi have endured. For those of us
who see that this is our vocation, we need to
open our hearts to much reconciliation and healing so that
we can move forward in peace and in hope. I
still feel a deep sense of peace from this pilgrimage,
and I ask for your prayers that it bears fruit
for all of my spiritual family in Regnum Christi and
for our suffering brothers and sisters in Ireland. I hope
that we truly do achieve a deeper communion with Christ
and with each other.
For excellent footage
and reporting on the Congress, I highly recommend watching Salt and Light TV on-line, based in Toronto, Canada.
Siobhan O'Connor and her sister Kate grew up
in Ontario, Canada and have been consecrated to God in
Regnum Christi for almost 15 years. After working for 9
years as dean of academics at Immaculate Conception Academy in
Wakefield, RI, Siobhan currently serves as a spiritual guide in
the Tri-state area and lives in Rye, NY. She can
be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.
After working for 13 years in Brazil with young
people and families, Kate now serves at Northwoods Catholic School
in Houston, TX. She can be reached at email@example.com.


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Oh...and you can't use rice and beans (unless the quantity is small) or pasta, or bread or any other cheap carbs.
Your goal is to get good nutrition and 100% of the fiber needed.
Be specific...don't just make lists like
Chicken on sale lentils cabbage stuff from Costco....
Could you do it?


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A VERWOOD teenager is throwing herself out of a plane and going on an arduous run to fund the trip of a lifetime.
Maddi Tonks, 17, is joining a group from Oakmead Academy in Bournemouth on the trip to Kigali, Rwanda, in October.
Maddi, who goes to the LEAF Studio School on the Oakmead Campus, will be doing a skydive and a 10k run as part of her efforts to raise £1,400 to fund the adventure.
She said: "Every year Oakmead Academy does a trip with the CRED Foundation to a different part of Africa.
"Seeing all the programmes on TV like Comic Relief, you want to go out there and make a difference. Knowing that I will be helping them and making a difference in their lives and educating them is a really good thought."
The group will be helping to teach maths and English to children in Rwanda, which this year marks 20 years since its devastating genocide, as well as helping teachers there.
Maddi added: "We will be helping the teachers there as well, taking resources and giving them lesson plans that they can do."
The teenager is studying musical theatre and plans to audition for London stage schools later this year.
Find Maddi's fundraising site at www.justgiving.com/maddi-tonks.


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Windows Phone 7 port for the HTC HD2 demoed, should be available soon
We already know that the HTC HD2 won't be officially upgraded to Windows Phone 7 Series, but that doesn't mean WP7 can't be ported to the HD2. In fact, it has already happened.
According to this post at HTCPedia, Windows Phone 7 Series runs relatively well on the HD2, although the "graphics driver is bad" and sometimes lags the device.
Admittedly, WP7 looks nice on HD2's 4.3 inch WVGA display:
And if photos aren't enough, there are also two videos available:
A beta version of the Windows Phone 7 port to the HD2 should be available soon for everyone to download – although it's not clear yet just how soon.


text: Just thought I'd share this one with you all a couple of weekends back. (It takes me a long time to catch up!) Me any family went down to London to see the Lion King and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for my birthday. Both shows were brilliant and the Lion King has the best opening of any musical I have seen. Fortunately the Car flew at Chitty and a great time was had by all! I know the tickets aren't cheap but if you get the chance to see either of the shows I can highly recommend. One word of warning the Chitty Tickets seem to be going fast October to March have just been released. One piece of budget advice the first 2 rows at Chitty are considered restricted views so are much cheaper. Not too sure what the difference is between sitting in row B & C anyway!