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Dr Eben Badoe delivering his presentation on the overview of FAS cases in the country
A KPETESHIE , A home brewed local alcoholic spirit, is the leading cause of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in Ghana, diagnosis from the Department of Child Health (DCH), University of Ghana Medical School, (UGMS) has revealed.
The findings from the diagnosis conducted between 2007 and 2010 indicated that out of 10 cases of FAS diagnosed at the CDH of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), seven were from the consumption of Akpeteshie by pregnant women.
Dr Eben Badoe, from the Department of Child Health, UGMS, said 20.4 percent of pregnant women drank significant amount of alcohol during pregnancy.
'The preferred drink was Akpeteshie, Liquor and Ginseng,' he said.
He disclosed this during the second National Awareness Campaign and International Research Presentations on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder aimed at enhancing public awareness about the risks of parental alcohol consumption and the need for prevention programmes.
The two day conference was attended by Ghanaian and international researchers, policy makers, practitioners, educators, graduate students and people whose lives have been affected by FASD, and to create the platform to present information that would highlight the problems of FASD which poses serious health risk to unborn babies in Ghana.
Giving an overview of documented cases of FAS in children, Dr Badoe noted that the Upper West and East regions recorded the highest level of alcohol consumption according to the Ghana Demographic Survey, 2010.
He said children with FAS showed characteristics of low birth rates, difficulties in breathing and poor weight gain, learning difficulties and failing to thrive.
He also noted that seven to eight out of the 10 cases of alcohol related birth defects also recorded cases of hernia and heart diseases such as hole-in- heart.
Dr Badoe, therefore, stressed the importance for physicians to know and understand the facial profile of newly-born babies to enable diagnosis across the country.
'We need data to be able to solve this public health issue which is preventable,' he noted.
Regina Amanorbea Dodoo, Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Organisation on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (GOFAS), organisers of the event, expressed worry over the lack of support channelled to initiatives to improve public health issues like FAS in the country.
'It is our collective national responsibility to pay attention to initiatives to draw attention to the national problem,' she said.
She, therefore, advised women to abstain from drinking alcohol once they get pregnant.
The Australian High Commissioner to Ghana, Joanna Adamson, supporting the action on FAS said her country was pleased to be associated with the initiative and support it with the grant from its direct aide programme.
She said it was important to educate people about FAS and the dangers about drinking during pregnancy, hence the Australia's support to the national awareness campaign.
'I hope this would lead to concerted outcomes to enhance the ongoing national awareness raising campaign about Fetal Alcohol Syndrome,' she said.
By Jamila Akweley Okertchiri
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Chasing our tails…
The Jays having swept the A's and now have a four-game winning streak. If they had won the first two of the Cleveland series this weekend, they would have had their first six-game winning streak since 2004.
How sad is that?
The Jays have the longest drought in winning streaks of at least six games in MLB. Even the saddest of the sad sacks have managed it.
2008 is the only season since baseball returned to D.C. that the Nats have failed to have a six-gamer. In 2007, they won seven in a row, in '06 they enjoyed a six-game run and in their first year back they had a 10-gamer. Heck, in their last year in Montreal they won seven straight.
The Bucs have won six in a row this year and in 2004, they won 10 consecutive.
The Reds have struggled in recent years but since the year Toronto last accomplished it have had a pair of six-gamers (this and last year) as well as runs of eight and seven straight (2006 and 2004).
Before the Rays broke out this year, they enjoyed 12 in a row in 2004 and enjoyed a six-gamer the following year. The Rangers had at least a six-game winning streak from 2004-07 and from June 21-27, the Royals put together a six-game run.
Yet the Blue Jays have yet to go on a magic run where they can get past five in a row. In 2005, their longest streak was four, which they accomplished three times. The following year, they got as many as five straight wins but only did it once; last season—same thing.
However, in 2004 they also had a six-game losing streak as well as a seven-gamer in 2006; last season they dropped nine in a row and this year they have struggled through a six- and seven-game drought. They've even sprinkled seven five-game losing streaks into the mix over that time.
I think this explains the degree of ennui toward the Jays. They really haven't gotten on a major run that gets everyone excited. They get on a roll and it quickly dies. Yet, there have been no shortage of nasty skids. It's hard to feel good about a team that has won six in a row once in the last five seasons but has suffered through 12 separate spells of five or more straight losses.
It simply exacerbates the problem when J.P. Ricciardi tells fans they wouldn't like Adam Dunn were the Jays to acquire him (he doesn't like baseball? J.P. is becoming the Typhoid Marty of inspiring that emotion in Canada), or gives away at-bats away to Brad Wilkerson or informs us he's happy with the lineup as it is; at the trade deadline nobody had the courtesy of giving him a decent burial or we learn that bats like Brian Giles are passed on so the Red Sox can have a shot at him.
Yet, he insists—We're in it! Yessiree! Our rivals are powering up but he's working on my gluteal itch-relief technique when not engaged in sinus excavation and industrial strength naval-gazing because gosh-darn it—after three years of trying he finally got Brad Wilkerson to Toronto!
What has been most frustrating is when pitching gets desperate, we see him willing to take a flyer on a Scott Richmond or a John Parrish, but when the team is hitting into a league-leading number of double plays, the team leader in home runs is hitting .218/.335/.356 since mid-May and still gets a lot of AB as DH and hits in the middle of the order and Ricciardi is wearing an expression that looks like it belongs on the cover of MAD magazine with the caption: "What, me worry?"
Even if testicular fortitude is lacking and he's afraid of mixing it up with the GM's who understand that correlation does equal causation insofar as hitting and hitting with power and run scoring are concerned—why does he not see if there's a hitting version of Richmond or Parrish in the bushes? Surely, a David Smith, a Buck Coats—heck, danged near anyone could have outdone Wilkerson's .167/.284/.233 since Gaston arrived.
Instead we get excuses, gearing up for next year (again), and lots of talk but little to get excited about.
As we heard up here in Canada regarding J.P. Ricciardi—he took an expensive .500 team, broke it down to an inexpensive .500 team and built it back up to an even more expensive .500 team.
Next year though! You betcha! Better times are just around the corner—except it turns out there have been no corners and we've been running around in circles and end up where we were the year before—excuses, gearing up for next year with big talk, big promises and the same results.
He talks as if the Jays are in it, but he can't even construct a team that can go six games without spitting the bit. The thing is, it may be random, it may be luck but as we discussed awhile back:
To me, if it's just random variation and luck then why does it always work against the Blue Jays? Under J.P. Ricciardi, the Jays are 523-537 (.493) but our Pythagorean W-L is 545-515 (.514). Is Pythagoras a Greek word meaning "J.P. Ricciardi is the greatest Jay-killer since Rickey Henderson" or something?
Maybe the Jays woes are a fluke, maybe it's just luck or it might be that Ricciardi is related to Pierrepoints. Regardless, when random variation and luck starting working in the Jays' favor, I may be more inclined to think that the Jays' play isn't the result of the gag reflex. The season isn't quite over for the Jays yet, but…
I mean, can't our hitting with runners in scoring position be fluky like the Twins? Can't our run distribution give us the record of the Angels? Why do the so-called luck and random variation always tend to be the kick-in-the-crotch variety?
It has happened a lot under Ricciardi though, hasn't it? Is he unlucky or just really not that good?
I'm opting for the latter.
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NATIONAL Premier League All-Stars goalkeeper James Bradbury hasn't shut the door completely on answering another SOS from the Monaro Panthers this season.
But it remains highly unlikely that the classy shot-stopper will be seen in the green and black again anytime soon after his cameo appearance in the Panthers 2-0 Mayor's Cup win over Queanbeyan City last Sunday.
Bradbury, who last year captained Monaro in his one and only season at Riverside Stadium, moved to Sydney during the off-season leaving the Panthers with a massive hole to fill.
But with the club still yet to source a replacement gloveman for its upcoming Premier League campaign, Bradbury was only too happy to make himself available for the Mayor's Cup contest.
And in doing so, the 22-year-old showed once again just why he is so highly regarded, making a string of fine saves to keep a clean sheet against last year's Capital League grand finalists.
Panthers fans however, would be wise not to hold their breath in hope of a repeat appearance.
"Sunday was really just to help the club out since I was back in town for the weekend anyway," Bradbury said. "As far as I know though that's it for the rest of the season.
"It's pretty hard to definitely rule anything on or out at this stage since I haven't even really settled up here [in Sydney] yet," he said. "But I'll always be open to any opportunities that might come up though."
Meanwhile, after being entrusted with the captain's armband with Monaro last year, Bradbury said he had been "devastated" at having to call time on his all-too-brief stint with the club.
"I was pretty devastated to leave to be honest," he said. "It was probably the most enjoyable season I've had in the Canberra Premier League.
"Obviously I wasn't planning on leaving after just the one year but that's how things worked out so I've just got to move on unfortunately."
The Panthers' win on Sunday saw Monaro become the first club in the Mayor's Cup four-year history to retain the trophy after backing up from last year's victory in the pre-season derby.
Monaro's young squad was put under plenty of pressure by a more experienced Queanbeyan City outfit for much of the match but showed plenty of flair on the counter-attack.
"We rode our luck a little bit there at times but, in saying that, you make your own luck and we managed to put ourselves in the right places at the right times to get the win," Bradbury said.


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Lzzy Hale To Perform At CMT Awards Tonight
You don't get much more rock than Lzzy Hale, and she will be showing off her amazing vocal ability tonight at the CMT Awards. In case you are not familiar, the CMT Award show recognizes country music stars. Lzzy will be joining Eric Church on stage, singing a song of his called 'That's Damn Rock & Roll'.
Aaron Lewis "Country Boy" Video
This is one one of the top requested songs on The Banana right now. Many of you have been asking about the video, well here it is.


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Take the Donald Trump Foreign Policy Challenge!!
- By Daniel W. Drezner
Daniel W. Drezner is professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a senior editor at The National Interest. Prior to Fletcher, he taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Drezner has received fellowships from the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Harvard University. He has previously held positions with Civic Education Project, the RAND Corporation, and the Treasury Department.
It's the last day of the International Studies Association annual meetings. I'm sleep-deprived, hung over, moderately sunburned, and pretty sick of international relations theory. While this throwback to my college days is moderately nostalgic, it is usually not a good state for blogging. Trying to tackle or critique the finer points of a nuanced argument takes energy and analytic skills, and after losing Twitter Fight Club 2012, I'm feeling wanting in both.
But, just when it seems like there's nothing I'm capable of blogging about in such a state, along comes Donald Trump.
When we last left The Donald in the world of foreign policy, he was uttering such inane, ignorant statements that I even invented an award in his honor. Today, Politico reports that Trump offered the following opinion on Laura Ingraham's radio show:
I happen to think that the President is going to start a war with Iran. I think it will be a short-term popular thing to do, and I think he's going to do that for political reasons, if you want to know the truth. I don't know if anyone says this as openly, but I think he's going to start a war with Iran. And, that will be short-term popular. If you remember Bush, Bush was unbeatable for about two months, and then all of the sudden the world set in when he attacked Iraq. And he went from very popular to not popular at all. But I think that Obama will start in some form a war with Iran, and I think that will make him very popular for a short period of time. That will make him hard to beat also.
Now I could go on a long-winded rant about Trump's stupidity, but I think it's more fun to treat this as a challenge to my readers. See, it's not just that Trump makes a few errors in that paragraph, it's that with one partial exception, every single statement he just said was factually wrong.
So, rather than ask my readers to point out the myriad ways in which Donald Trump is in error, here's my challenge — what sentence in the above paragraph contains the most truth value?
Get to it, dear readers — while I go search for Advil.
UPDATE: So I see that Trump has said other controversial things today. I will leave it to readers to judge whether the veracity of his later comments are greater than his foreign-policy musings.


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The smooth jazz echoed off the cavernous grocery store walls as your mom pushed the cart down the aisle.
One rickety wheel in the front of the cart spastically shook to the left and right as it shared your excitement for what was about to come next. After all, what the next aisle contained was the only reason you jovially jumped into the car when she informed you of the morning's food shopping duties.
Your mom stretched on her tippy toes to grab the boxed pasta on sale that week. She tossed it into the cart behind you and the dried noodles shook inside their container like a set of maracas. It was as if every object surrounding you was gearing up to celebrate what would come next.
As she pushed the cart around the bend, the music overhead silenced to a hush and all you could hear was the commercial jingles from every cereal brand. You begin taking inventory of where "Snap. Crackle. Pop." was located, along with the friendly box of the "They're grrreeeaaat!" tiger.
However, it wasn't the cereal itself you were examining carefully as your mom slowly pushed you past the colorful rectangles of sugary grains. Nope, it was the tiny images printed on the corner of each box you were trying to desperately evaluate. After all, whichever one competed for the best "Toy Inside!" and won would be the cereal you begged to hug close to your chest until the entire morning of shopping was done.
The magic of a surprise inside
First pioneered by Cracker Jacks, the surprise inside is something that smart marketers have done for decades. In fact, Seth Godin wrote an entire book about its power.
The thing that makes something remarkable isn't usually directly related to the original purpose of the product or service. It's the FREE PRIZE INSIDE, the extra stuff, the stylish bonus, the design or the remarkable service or pricing that makes people talk about it and spread the word. – Seth Godin
These days, cereal brands have bastardized this concept to death. If a cereal does not contain a prize, it's odd and rare. However, they get away with it since their primary buyer is children, and young children don't typically rationalize buying decisions, especially when the money being spent isn't their own.
My boys, for example, demanded two boxes of Reese's Puffs cereal this summer (approximately $4.99 per box, totaling almost $10.00), just so they could proceed to crush the heck out of it as they searched for the Despicable Me Minion figurine that settled to the bottom. Each toy boasted a $0.50 value, and that's probably generous.
However, when it comes to creating art for a living and your primary audience is adults, you have a slightly different playing field in which to operate. The bad news is that your buyer rationalizes their purchasing decisions before they buy, if they're granted the time to do so. The good news is that the playing field is quite saturated with boring businesses and an insane amount of sameness.
With just a sprinkling of creativity, however, you can blow them all away (and I know you've got plenty of creativity…if you didn't you wouldn't be here).
How to create a unique client experience that also offers a surprise
Just as Seth Godin says, the surprise isn't the product itself. It's something in addition to what they're paying you money to get. The surprise doesn't have to cost very much, either (two inch tall plastic Minion, anyone?). However, it does have to be something that the customer wouldn't normally expect. In order to have the most impact, it should be something that communicates that you care about the customer, what they enjoy and what they'll likely tell loads of people about.
When you go to get your car's oil changed, if they take 10 minutes to wash your car down and spray shiny stuff on your tires, you're thrilled! It cost them 10 minutes of their time, one ounce of shiny stuff and five gallons of water. The expense was next to nothing. But in contrast, the other car mechanics tend to leave your car dirtier after an oil change. With black fingerprints on the interior and the driver's seat thrown all the way back, you're happy that your oil is all set for another 5,000 miles, but you're annoyed that they didn't respect your vehicle.
Customers of neither auto mechanic brag to their friends about how efficient and phenomenal the oil change was. Nope. They're either complaining about the fingerprints or they're sharing the treat of a newly washed car.
So in order to test out a surprise for your creative business, you need to:
- take a look at what the competition is not doing
- understand what your target market subculture would most enjoy
- evaluate a list of possible options and try one at a time
Comment below and share ideas of possible surprises to thrill and delight your customers
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Picture: The View performs at the Meadowbank Stadium as part of the T on the Fringe Festival Edinburgh, Scotland - 24.08.07
DANNY DeVITO appeared on US TV show The View yesterday (29NOV06) morning still tipsy after a night of heavy partying with pal George Clooney. The star was promoting his new movie DECK THE HALLS on the show, and admitted he hadn't been to bed the night before. DeVito then cursed his seventh limoncello (a lemon liqueur) from the previous evening and launched into a boozy rant against US President George W Bush, much of which was bleeped out by network censors. The former TAXI star also revealed he and his wife RHEA PERLMAN made sure to "utilise every surface available" in the famous Lincoln Bedroom when they stayed at The White House as overnight guests of former US President Bill Clinton. The show's co-hosts ROSIE O'DONNELL and Joy Behar seemed to be amused by DeVito's antics, while ELISABETH HASSELBECK, a staunch Republican, tried gamely to switch the conversation to non-political topics, but failed as DeVito continued on his political tirade. The show's creator, veteran newswoman Barbara Walters, appeared visibly uncomfortable as the interview progressed. DeVito's representative, Stan Rosenfield, tells entertainment website TMZ.com his client has requested Walters' phone number and that he would say "what needed to be said privately" to her.


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LABOUR councillors in Pendle have pledged to scrap a charge to have garden waste bins emptied if they take control of the council next month.
Pendle Council has introduced a £25 charge per household per year for garden waste collections from the end of June.
Coun Mohammed Iqbal, leader of Labour group, said: "At the budget meeting, Labour was the only party which refused to impose this back-door increase on over 25,000 households across Pendle.
"I make a public promise to scrap this tax on garden waste if Labour takes control of the council after the local elections on May 22."
Earlier this week Philip Mousdale, deputy chief executive at Pendle Council, said: "We have had to make changes to how we finance some of our services against a backdrop of tighter budgets than we've ever faced before.
"The annual garden waste subscription charge is £25 per bin – this equates to 50p per week. This will not make a profit for the council, but cover the costs of providing the service."


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Many know the lovable and ranting character, Cranky Kong, from the Donkey Kong line of games. It wasn't until I started replaying Donkey Kong Country that I noticed how wise he really was. As such, I will review a few games from a cranky perspective.
Today's cranky review is Journey--no not the 80's band--a PSN game that many are calling a true piece of art in video games. Right off the bat, they throw you into a desert with a guy made out of toothpicks.
Your objective is to reach the mystifying mountain and its strange light that shines above it. Your obstacles? You have to use those wimpy limbs, a bit of pixie dust to fly, and you have to cross large areas that may or may not take 2 hours to finish--depending on your navigation skills.
The way you fly is by getting a magic scarf that lets you fly. How long your flight lasts depends on the length of your scarf. You can increase it by getting these little orbs of white light--a.k.a the souls that Gingers used to have. This ain't the kind of scarf that your Grandmother would knit!
With no real enemies, an open environment, and no real objectives, what is there to do in this game? You keep flying and hopefully you meet some good buddies to join you in this game! Since you can't invite friends to play with you, you never know who you're playing with. You could be playing with Colin Moriarty, Me , or DevsterPS3Legend! Not everyone is nice though. Some try to touch you more than is needed and random strangers will appear everywhere trying to molest you.
Beware of flying carpet creatures that like to be near you.
The music to Journey is great. I fell asleep after I beat the game and I didn't even need my medications! It's definitely relaxing and beautiful. Aside from the fact that it can serve to be a lullaby, it fits the atmosphere of each level. Speaking of levels, it's like Christopher Nolan (director of Inception) created them. Things are upside down, they move, they disappear, and some even have rooms within a room--that's the idea of Inception coming into play, by the way.
The graphics are fine if you don't mind re-applying eye drops every hour for the bright colors. Your eyes will burn at the HD-ness of this game!
In the end, Journey is a journey through mystical lands in search of what seems like the final step to englightenment. Join your anonymous friends, display it in HD, put up the volume, and just play. The one great thing about this game is that once you begin playing, you can't stop until you beat it. With some detailed levels, graphics, and unique puzzles, you can't go wrong!
You can't better the graphics, sounds and playability of a Game & Watch!
- Cranky Kong
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State Leaders Might Take Up Execution Issue
Posted January 31, 2007
A representative for Department of Labor Commissioner Cherie Berry tells WRAL she was called by Gov. Mike Easley's office Wednesday and told that a written protocol will be given to the Council of State members on Friday for their review.
Berry is a member of the council, along with the governor, the lieutenant governor and the elected heads of seven other state agencies.
The governor's office, however, tells WRAL that Easley has not spoken to any members of
the Council of State about the matter. Spokesman Seth Effron said the agenda for next week's regularly scheduled meeting has not been set.
Three executions have already been put on hold since Wake County Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens ruled last week that the 10-member Council of State must approve a recent change that keeps doctors from actively participating in the execution process.
Berry, who supports capital punishment and one of three Republicans on the council, believes the council's action would merely address what she terms a "technicality."


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If you say that "you guys are a bunch of sheep" that can mean two things:Originally Posted by Csilla Bagyi
-they are afraid to speak up for themselves, afraid to come forward and say what's on their minds. They are shy, meekish, vulnerable or they simply act cowardly.
-sheep ( other than the animal itself) also means a person lacking intelligence or common sense. Same as knucklehead, airhead, etc.
As for the first category, I think the word "follower" would be the closest and possibly a "tagalong".
Csilla BagyiGuest


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Let Us Now Praise the Very (Very) Rich
Photo by Jack GouldYou know, when I've a hankering for a diamond tennis bracelet or a $300 French frock for a 2-year-old girl—since I don't have a 2-year-old girl, I generally have to corral a random one walking by—I cruise over to South Coast Plaza.
And I've got to say I think it's in terrible taste for the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) satellite gallery at South Coast Plaza—or "home," as I like to call it—to be hectoring all of us with their glum pictures of poor people in their dirty, dirty clothes. (And I think we all know now that the myth about the nobility of the poor is a big, big lie! Oh, their clothes are torn, but never are they dirty! No! Except, guess what, Stevie Wonder—their clothes actually are filthy! Filthier than Nixon's mouth! That's right! They're not noble at all, and they let their children run around in filthy, dirty clothes, when they let them run around in clothes at all!)
I'm hearing a lot of talk—most of it emanating from the folks at the OCMA, surprise!—about what an important exhibit Walker Evans' "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" is. How Evans is, in fact, one of the most important American artists of the century. How his collaboration with James Agee for an unpublished Fortune Magazine spread in the 1930s to document the plight of Southern poor folks (I guess it's not really P.C. to call them "disgusting trash"), which resulted in the magnum opus Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, is the defining document of Depression-era suffering.
Evans and Agee lived for a month among the Burroughs, the Tengles and the Fields of Hale County, Alabama. Agee wrote the words, and Evans didn't so much illustrate them as complement them in equal import. His photos depict emasculated, toothless men unable to provide for their families; their shoeless, pissed-off wives, who work alongside them in the fields; pretty blond toddlers sitting in piles of soft, chalky dirt; and dilapidated wood shacks without any of the ramshackle charm of a House of Blues or Country Bear Jamboree.
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Apparently, the 1930s were a bad time to be poor white trash—unlike today's Springer-induced bull market. Evans' frighteningly crisp photos spare no starving-child detail. Most haunting is a picture of a small body, its foot bandaged, lying on the floor. Its face is covered by a scrap of what looks like a former flour bag, the faint logo still in evidence. In the book by Evans and Agee, there is no title for the photograph, but the OCMA has seen fit to allay our worst fears by adding the title Squeaky Burroughs Asleep. Who sticks a live kid on the floor and then covers his face with a flour bag? Who does that???
Poor people, that's who!
Evans did not consider himself a Social Realist like noble-Okie portraitist Dorothea Lange; nor did he consider himself a documentarian. Well, thanks a lot, Walker Evans! How's an art critic supposed to neatly pigeonhole you, then? How about this for a name for your school: "Dandy Fops Who Hate Women and Jews but Are Supposedly Liberal and Then They Take Pictures of Starving Dirty Children With Their Uncircumcised Little Wees Hanging out Because They Have No Pants and Make Everyone Feel Bad When They're Just Trying to Buy a Goddamn Montblanc Pen, but They're Not Social Realists, No, Even Though It Was the Great Depression and Everyone and Their Mother Was a Social Realist, Damn It, Just Who Do You Think You Are, Mr. Fancy Photographer Man?" But don't take that as some kind of judgment.
Walker Evans as quintessential American artist? Sure, why not? Blather on all you want, OCMA folks, with your cultural-elite liberalism. Yes, interminable articles in The New Yorker back you up. And even Vanity Fair got into the act this month, with a looong Evans spread nestled amid the deserved odes to Lady Astor and Warren and Annette. Sure, this exhibit at South Coast Plaza runs concurrently with a similar exhibit from the same wellspring at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. All I'm saying is I just don't see why the OCMA has to be shoving starving American children in our faces when all we're trying to do is mind our own business and equip ourselves with some $10,000 Montblanc pens and maybe get a deep, soothing facial while we're at it. It's the exquisite details that make the man, you know? Those shiftless poor people would do well to remember it.
"Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" at the Orange County Museum of Art, South Coast Plaza satellite, 3333 Bristol St., Costa Mesa, (949) 759-1122. Open Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sun., 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Through May 7.
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My academic training is in poetry but I love stout fiction, the kind Faulkner and Joyce wrote. The kind that clothes life-like characters with carefully interwoven abstraction and emotional chaos. Nothing emulates reality quite like these kinds of stories. About a year ago I read Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction (Pantheon Books).
Since the book asserts the failures of the classical arguments for a supreme deity, I found it particularly ironic that the press is "Pantheon Books" ("all of the gods," referring to the Roman gallery of the supernatural figures); that would be a bit like John Piper publishing a book with the "Arminius Publishing Group."
Nevertheless, as an evangelical, how could I not like a book like Goldstein's, which includes this cover blurb from Christopher Hitchens: "You do not have to perpetrate an act of faith to confront the question of why there is something rather than nothing. It is faith itself that consists of nothing. Rebecca Goldstein, on the other hand, is quite something"?
The novel is marvelous, philosophical and sardonic all at the same time. It is, in some ways, the antidote to the smiling preacher treacle that fills so much of the Christian subculture, though not in the way that Goldstein, perhaps, proposes. It's not as intellectually devastating as she would hope for those of us who do believe that faith actually is "something" that provides a genuine contre temps to "nothing." Instead, it is a stark reminder of the ultimate emptiness of a worldview that reduces everything to nothingness. The characters are dynamos of egotism who leave wounded persons in their wakes. One has the feeling that there's hardly a one of them who can lie quietly in his or her bed at night and drift to sleep feeling fulfilled and peaceful. Certainly these are literary characters and I should be careful about being over-critical of their foibles but all of us who are in academe know these persons and love them, sometimes for and sometimes in spite of their irascibility.
I picked the book back up this week because it is set in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where I spent two weeks this summer. It's amazing how one's mental attempts to capture a story's literary images always are found to be off the beam once one has seen the actual places described. It's also interesting to see how a story itself changes when we have a different sense of the setting and the characters based on actual experience. For example, for a year I was Nick Carraway in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, living on a multi-millionaire Polish duke's waterfront estate in Virginia and watching the parties along the Chesapeake Bay from the end of his pier. I'll never teach that work the same again.
Perhaps that's what intrigues me about works like Goldstein's. When these writers, including the New Atheists, write about faith and the supernatural, they write as persons who have never lived in that world, imagining it from their armchairs through the lenses of other writers who likewise have never inhabited those worlds. For those of us who reside in the world of faith and have seen its bridges, its buildings, and its people with our own eyes yes, faith has eyes, as well as brains we can recognize the limits of the traveler who has never actually travelled but rather has imagined travelling and decided that it is not really worth the effort. If it's not really worth the effort, I can't help but wonder, then why write so much about it? I can swat at a gnat and dismiss its gnat-liness, but I would daresay that writing a hefty volume titled "Disposing of the Gnat" would be something of overkill.
Someone once said we could fill libraries with books that have been written to dispose once and for all of the one Book that is central to the entirety of Christendom, but that one Book still stands. Maybe that's because it is filled with something while the rest are filled with nothing.
Let me recommend Goldstein's "36 Arguments" to you, especially those who are more philosophically minded. It's an important book that provides us with an armchair guide to the lives of our fellow persons who have chosen paths different than ours; unlike those who have never lived in the world of faith, however, each of us has lived in the world of faithlessness, for each of us who is in the realm of faith was once lost before being found by God's grace. In the book's pages I was reminded why I love folks like Hitchens and his compatriots; they are as I once was. Thank goodness for Romans 5: 6-11.
My academic training is in poetry but I love stout fiction, the kind Faulkner and Joyce wrote. The kind that clothes life-like characters with carefully interwoven abstraction and emotional chaos. Nothing emulates reality quite like these kinds of stories. About a year ago I read Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction (Pantheon Books).


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Karachi: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has announced a Rs. 10 million reward for help leading to the recovery of Awais Ali Shah, the kidnapped son of the Sindh High Court Chief Justice .
Awais was abducted on Tuesday from outside a super market in the Defence Housing Authority area of the city by four armed gunmen.
Police has registered a case against "unknown suspects" for kidnapping Shah but no progress has been made in the search so far.
The motive of the kidnapping remains unclear as no ransom calls have been recieved.
"There are a few clues which may help clearing the picture further but, right now there is nothing credible to determine people and motive behind the incident. The thing which is now turning quite obvious is it's not a conventional kidnapping for ransom case," the Dawn quoted a police official as saying.
To discuss the incident and progress for the safe recovery of Shah, Karachi Corps Commander Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar met the Chief Minister at CM House.
On Tuesday, the Sindh Rangers DG had also announced a Rs. 2.5 million reward to solve the case.
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Lower 4 had their ball with Merchiston Castle school last week. All the girls put a lot of effort into getting ready for the ball and looked gorgeous. The boys also put in effort to getting ready. We were really lucky to have a band that the boys had created, called "The Detours". They played American Idiot and another song called Our Generation. The Lower 4 committee decorated the drama studio with posters and fairy lights. The theme was Hollywood.
We had some Ceilidh dancing to get us and the boys to speak to each other, as we were nervous too! Joanna Abe from L4X sang "Titanium" and she really finished the party off. We all had an excellent night and really enjoyed the ball. There was a photo booth and we could all go and get our photos taken. Three of the U6 girls were there to help with the ball and they also showed us how to dance! It was nice for Merchiston to come along and join us for this amazing event.
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"Like Half Life and many other great mods this game is one of the best expansions EVER!"
Like Half Life at the beggining you get the stuff about you and see some people talk about the mission.You are in a helicopter and going to the landing zone and you still havent got the objectives yet.When you are almost there something happens and a ufo destrys a chopper then goes for yours.If you remeber half Life you get teleported too places?Well it is the same in this case and you will see what happens at the crash site.I will not spoil the rest for you.
You are Shepherd a soldier in the black mesa's point of veiw.You must contain the Facilty and kill the people inside it(if oyu find them).This is like Half Life get your self alive and outta there.While there are no changes since the Half Life it is still good.
The graphics for an old game is not that bad.Some of the things are improves like the wrench you get looks nice and spiffy.Other things looked good also like the character models.gun models,and background.Your hand when you hold the gun isnt good as Gordons but it still looks good.Like I said the graphics still look nice to this day.
There are still the same noises but there still good.There is some new gun shots and other things.Hitting stufif in different places will sound different.The gunshots may not be realistic but it is still nice.
There are new weapons like the wrench or bladed knife.Some wepons have some useless secondary but maybe good for your survival later on.Like the new pistol you get has a laser sight but you have crosshairs actually made me aim better.I kill those eye shockers in one hit because of good aim.There is some more weapons and your old favorties.
There is some news ones and the old ones like the annoying crabs(god I hate those things).The AI is okay also but can sometimes be very "stupid".
They are the same as last game but you get soldiers as your friends this time and some new ones.Some people in the game are more helpful than Half Life. There are still the stupid useless scienctis but the can make good target practice.
Some of the people are stupid like the will still run on the walls or cannot go down the latters in the game.It is a ashame because some are useful and the new ones can help you in combat like the welder or basic soldiers for example.There are some more like the medics and stuff.
Not good as counter strike but some of the new wepons are good like the big tongue thing in your arm.It is actually quite addicting but you will probably not play as much as counter strike.
I swear this game is long it may take you a couple of months.You have too conserve ammo so you can surive because you have to watch for survival.Dont go around and waste bullets aim carefully where it can hurt really bad.
Replay value6/10
Online is ok but it wont last too long.there are no things too unlock but maybe you can always beat your old time in the game.But that may take too long
Overall Score8
The average score if my math is correct is 7.8.For that score I bumped it too an 8 becasue it was near too it.This game is worht getting and it is for free when you download steam and have a counter strike or Half Life cd key.
Rent or Buy
You cant do both lol.Like I said earlier you can download the game if you have Half Life or counter strike.But the game is worth getting I like it better than the origanl Half Life game though online isnt good as Counter Strike.
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TATA is Telangana American Telugu Association and it was formed last year by the Telangana NRI youth and within no time it has turned one year. The celebrations are conducted to mark the occasion at India community centre at Milipitos in Sanhouze inAmerica. Minister Jagadeesh Reddy and Rasamayi Balakrishna have attended the event and few anchors also graced the event. Watch the video for more details.


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Updated 11:46 am, Friday, May 16, 2014
Mid-century-inspired coffee mugs, old black-and-white photographs, earthquake and fire manuals from the 1960s, scientific beakers, a salvaged post from a regional park trailhead, suitcases and vintage city maps artfully line the newest outpost of Mixed Nuts, a "precious junk" shop in Hayes Valley.
The teeny 18-by-15-foot space, headed by founders Jon Ralston, Brandon Clark and Anthony Williamson, is the second location for the professional treasure hunters. Their flagship store in the Outer Richmond opened in 2012.
"We're kind of like junk pirates, and it's an odd job, but it's fun and exciting, and it's really just an extension of our personalities," says Hayes Valley store manager Clark, who met Ralston, who also owns a professional hauling business, while working as a barista at Simple Pleasures Coffee Roasting Co.
"We had kind of talked about the idea of opening a second store." As luck would have it, the new space fell into their hands. Williamson and Clark, classmates from Philadelphia University (Clark studied graphic design, and Williamson studied industrial design), and co-founders of A2B, a design-build company, were working on office space for a local startup company, Socialprint Studio, which owned a vacant storefront in Hayes Valley. It was this client that suggested they open a second location in the unused space.
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Clark's hunts have taken him into private homes of everyone from World War II veterans to collectors searching for objects with heart and soul. (He's been known to drive in the middle of the night to go pick up items found on Craigslist.) "It's nice to have a story to hold along with the object," he says. "It's about a connection, and it's part of what we sell in some way."
Goods: A recent sampling included a handmade, brass-welded wire stool ottoman from a doctor's office in the city from the 1970s ($285), large-scale papier-mache rhinoceros ($245), Tizio task lamp by Richard Saper ($265), vintage map of Paris ($40), Palm Springs plate ($10), Roos Bros. megaphone ($75), Noe Valley "Red Stamp" banner ($225).
Faves: Chandelier made from an old ship anchor ($195), auctioneer's mallet ($25), salmon-hued Eames chair ($475).
Details: Noon to 7 p.m. Thursday-Sunday, 227 Fell St., S.F. (415) 633-6887. www.mixednutssf.com.
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GRAND JUNCTION, Mich. — Michigan blueberries are running ahead of schedule this year, but not quite as far ahead as growers thought in May.
A warm spring got the blueberry bushes budding early, but a cool May stunted their growth and got them closer to normal timing, said Frank Bragg, chief executive officer of MBG Marketing.
"Things, as usual, keep changing as the weather changes," Bragg said. "We're still tracking about a week earlier than normal in Michigan and Indiana."
Up until mid-May it was looking like the state would beat last year's volume of 100 million pounds, 53 million of which went to the fresh market, but Bragg said as of late the state is tracking toward a slightly smaller crop.
"We just started to receive some more heavy rainfall, which was needed," Bragg said in early June. "We were looking colder and drier, and some were getting a little concerned."
Berries coming from Michigan might be a bit smaller than last year's, Bragg said.
Bragg expects Michigan growers to start harvesting around July 4. For the first time this year, July will not be the highest blueberry consumption month for the U.S., as June has taken over, Bragg said.
"This is a first," Bragg said on June 2. "It's because of growth in Georgia, California, North Carolina, and then New Jersey. They're going to start harvesting this weekend."
California, which didn't even exist as a blueberry industry seven years ago, should have 30 million pounds this year, and 60 million pounds when its existing bushes are at maturity.
Georgia is projected to double its crop of 32 million pounds last year, and North Carolina is up to almost 40 million pounds, from 30 million last year, Bragg said.
"The combination of primarily Georgia and Florida creates a peak in our fresh sales we have not seen before," Bragg said.
The nation is projected to produce about 300 million pounds of fresh blueberries this year, along with another 130 imported from Mexico. Consumer demand seems to have stuck right with availability, so consumption has increased with increased production, Bragg said.
"Michigan is a mature area, but it's growing as well, well the replacement of older acreage with new, (higher producing) acreage," Bragg said.
Bragg said MBG Marketing and its partners, Naturipe Farms and Hortifruit, are doing cross-promotions with other grocery store items, including yogurt and Rubbermaid storage containers.
Across the country, blueberries are selling in larger containers, Bragg said. Typically, Florida ships in 4-ounce containers, but this is the first season the state has packed a majority of its berries in pints, Bragg said.
"We're seeing club packs increase in size, as well," Bragg said. "We're seeing 2-pounders replace 18-ounce, passing on better value, better price points for the consumer."
Despite a poor economy, the blueberry industry saw record sales last year, so Bragg is optimistic about what this year has in store.
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High quality school education sets up our children for a life of success. The Australian Government is committed to striving for a high quality school system that assists each and every Australian child to reach their full potential so they can fully participate in the economic and social life of the community.
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Inspiring all Australians in digital literacy and STEM
Under the National Innovation and Science Agenda's Inspiring all Australians in digital literacy and STEM measure, a variety of initiatives will be introduced to increase the participation of all students and the wider community in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and to improve their digital literacy.
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Reconciliation Australia's Narragunnawali: Reconciliation in Schools and Early Learning programme (Narragunnawali) supports schools and early learning services across Australia to develop environments that foster a higher level of knowledge and pride in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures and contributions.
The Department of Education and Training is committed to reconciliation and is proud to support Narragunnawali. This commitment is outlined in the department's Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) 2014-2017.
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The National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy drives research excellence and collaboration between 35,000 researchers, government and industry to deliver practical outcomes.
National School Chaplaincy Programme
The Australian Government has committed $243.8 million over four years from 2014-15 to 2017-18 to assist over 3000 schools to engage the services of a school chaplain. Consistent with the Government's election commitment the National School Chaplaincy Programme (NSCP) aims to support the emotional wellbeing of students through the provision of pastoral care services and strategies that support the emotional wellbeing of the broader school community.
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There are 511 projects funded under the Trade Training Centres in Schools Program. This includes 136 Trades Skills Centres (TSCs). To reflect the Government's commitment to stronger industry linkages, project funding agreements for TSCs have been enhanced to ensure that industry engagement and collaboration is at the forefront of these projects, along with appropriate student support arrangements.
National Youth Affairs Research Scheme
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Online curriculum and resources
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Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme
The Australian Government Department of Social Services (DSS) have overall policy responsibility for the Assistance for Isolated Children (AIC) Scheme.
Australian Vocational Student Prize
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Technology in Schools
The Australian Government supports the appropriate use of technology in Australian schools to prepare students to learn, train and live in a digital world.
English as a Second Language - New Arrivals Programme
The Australian Government, through the English as a Second Language - New Arrivals Programme, provided funding to Catholic and independent schools to assist migrant students to receive intensive English language tuition.
My School
The My School website provides profiles for Australian schools, including information on school programs and culture, workforce, academic performance, funding sources, student characteristics and enrolment and attendance rates.
Parents, teachers, principals and the community can search profiles of almost 10,000 Australian schools.
NAPLAN and NAP sample assessments
The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), part of the National Assessment Program (NAP), is a national assessment that tests students in the domains of reading, writing, language conventions (spelling, grammar and punctuation) and numeracy. NAPLAN testing began in 2008 and is undertaken every year in May by all students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9.
Flexible literacy for remote primary schools
The Australian Government's Flexible literacy for remote primary schools program supports the improvement of literacy results for children in remote primary schools with the introduction of two alphabetic teaching approaches: Direct Instruction and Explicit Direct Instruction.
Indigenous Australian Government Development Programme (IAGDP)
The Department of Education and Training is engaging in the 2016-17 Indigenous Australian Government Development Program (IAGDP) The IAGDP is an entry-level employment and development program for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are interested in working in the Australian Public Service (APS).The program is run by the Department of Employment
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We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated graduates who are passionate about education and want to make a difference to the lives of all Australians.
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Nadia Petrova defeated world No. 3 Agnieszka Radwanska on Saturday to win the $2 million Japan Open, the biggest title of her career.
Petrova took the first set at a canter, lost the second just as easily, but recovered in the decider for a 6-0, 1-6, 6-3, win on the hard court in Tokyo.
The closest the 30-year-old Russian has come to clinching the lion's share of such a big purse was in 2006, when she won three $1.3 million events.
"I played great in the first set but may have used too much energy, and in the second set I felt flat," Petrova said on the WTA website.
"It took me a while to recuperate and get back into the game. After the second set when I went to change my clothes, I had a few minutes to think about what to focus on in the third set."
It was Petrova's 12th WTA title and second this year after taking the $220,000 UNICEF Open in the Netherlands by beating Radwanska's younger sister Urszula in the final.
Petrova has a career ranking high is No. 3 in 2005, when she reached the French Open semifinal and the quarterfinals of Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.


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Third Season of A.LINCOLN: A PIONEER TALE Closes This Saturday, 7/26
The third season for the outdoor musical drama about Lincoln's Indiana years will run until Saturday, July 26.
A.Lincoln: A Pioneer Tale, a two-act musical play written by Ken Jones, takes audiences on a journey through Lincoln's Indiana pioneer days and how his years in Indiana shaped the man that became the 16th president.
Jones hopes audiences not only will enjoy the theatrical spectacle of the large dance and choral numbers, but walk away with a sense of joy and pride that a young pioneer boy could grow up to be one of the greatest leaders of all time.
"Our 16th President was homegrown in Indiana. I feel that we all know a lot about the President Lincoln, the civil war leader... but there are so many stories of the boy. I learned so many things about Abe's friends and family, and I believe that those friends and family sculpted this great leader," Jones said.
A.Lincoln: A Pioneer Tale is performed live on the 1500-seat, covered Lincoln Amphitheatre stage. Lincoln Amphitheatre is located inside Lincoln State Park and on the grounds President Lincoln walked as a boy growing up in southern Indiana from the ages of seven to 21 years old. He received his less than one year of formal education in Indiana, studied by candlelight, and lost his mother, Nancy Hanks to milk sickness and his sister, Sarah Lincoln Grigsby in childbirth.
A.Lincoln: A Pioneer Tale, the two-act musical play enhanced by an original score of ten songs, took the 1500-seat, covered Lincoln Amphitheatre's stage on June 19 and continues to run Wednesday to Saturday evenings beginning at 7:30 p.m. CDT until Saturday, July 26.
Ticket prices are $21 for adults; $18 for seniors ages 55 and older, students ages seven to 21, and military; and $6 for children ages six and under. Guests can save $2 a person (excluding children pricing) when making reservations over the phone or online up to two hours prior to the performance day. An optional dinner service is available for an additional cost to guests who make reservations at least three days in advance.
The 2014 season continues with Celtic Song and Dance for a one-time only performance on Sunday, August 17 at 2 p.m. CDT with an optional pork chop dinner available one-hour prior to show time.
For more information about tickets and Lincoln Amphitheatre's complete 2014 season, visit www.LincolnAmphitheatre.org or call 800-264-4223.


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The game will now ship after June 30, allowing the company to polish the game. Eidos is confident that the delay will not impact Championship Manager 2009's profitiablity.
"Eidos has a total commitment to producing the highest quality games and we believe by moving the release date of Championship Manager, we will give the product the additional time needed to deliver a more polished and highly competitive game within the genre," the publisher's CEO Phil Rogers said in a statement.
"We will not compromise on quality and we are confident that this decision is right for consumers and will benefit the continued popularity of this franchise."
Eidos recently moved a step closer to completing its buy-out from Square Enix, which will see the Japanese company purchase the British publisher in early May.


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Govt secures the numbers
The Government has secured the numbers necessary to get its pre-funding legislation through Parliament after Cabinet to make changes to the bill.
Tuesday, June 19th 2001, 1:02AM
The Government has secured the numbers necessary to get its pre-funding legislation through Parliament after Cabinet to make changes to the bill.
The changes, made to secure the support of New Zealand First, allow for a future Government to allocate the fund's money into individual names.
The most significant point is that any future allocation would be made based on individual taxpayer's contributions, not on a pro-rata basis.
"The allocation would be to contributing taxpayers aged 18 or more and would be paid out according to the specific amount that person had paid in," Finance minister Michael Cullen says.
Cullen says the changes mean, " we should now be able to get the legislation through this year and the fund up and running. That is important because, until the fund has been legislated for and the governance structures established, the money cannot be invested. It can only sit on the Government's accounts."
While Labour and the Alliance have agreed to the changes, they don't support them.
Cullen says the parties "hold strongly to the view that individual accounts would prove unfair to women, low income earners and people with interrupted work histories."
NZ First leader Winston Peters takes the contrary view.
"We cannot agree, however with the suggestion that the individualisation of accounts is somehow unfair-we still believe that this is in fact fair for women, Maori and low income earners than the present scheme," he says.
"Right now if you die before retirement you get nothing for your taxes paid over the years."
Neither National nor the Greens support the move. Act, which has called for individual accounts before, has been silent.
A select committee report on the bill will be debated next week and the Government expects the proposed legislation should be passed in the next couple of months.
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Court Jesters to Play Dream Team at Grand Opening
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The Grand Opening of the new Garrett College gymnasium – CARC Phase 2 – is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 13, when the Court Jesters Comedy Basketball Team will take on the Garrett County Dream Team as part of the Garrett College 2012 Alumni Homecoming. The game, which will begin at 8 p.m. in the Community Aquatic and Recreation Complex (CARC) on the McHenry campus, will be open to the public as a fund-raiser for the Garrett College Athletic Department.
"This event promises to be very entertaining for all ages. The Court Jesters are well-known for their comedic antics on the basketball court," said Shawn Noel, director of the CARC and of GC Athletics. Head Basketball Coach Denis Gibson is lining up the members of the Garrett County Dream Team for the game. "All I will say right now is that there will be some very familiar faces on the court to take on the Jesters and not everyone is going to be in the best athletic condition of his life," he said with a smile.
During the basketball game half-time, Brenda Brosnihan's troupe will perform their fund-raising "Bounce Back" dance to benefit the Children's Miracle Network and Cindy's Fund. For information on the Court Jesters game, including admission price and advance ticket purchase locations, persons may visit www.garrettcollege.edu/courtjesters/ or call 301-387-3052.


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When I wrote the article chronicling the evolution of toy lightsabers, I would have never guessed that one year later today I'll be writing another article about what I think is.. the ULTIMATE lightsaber toy... this is IT!
Savy readers would have already know that this is Luke Skywalkers lightsaber from Return Of The Jedi, you can clearly see that this is nothing more than the hilt of a plastic toy with it's seams and everything. Let's pull the camera back a bit.
Look at that blade, it's a solid one piece tube... in fact it looks just like the blades they have on those cool nifty replica lightsabers...
ZOMFG!! The collectors in you would say Hey... that looks just like the FX replica lightsabers! Well... that's because IT IS the same basic design technology that powers the FX lightsabers! Hasbro got the license to make them super expensive replica lightsabers, and in true profit oriented form, they reapplied the tech into an cheaper, affordable package, retaining the BEST factors of a replica lightsaber: The glowing blade, the awesome motion based effects. And then giving it a lightweight plastic body, along with a PRETTY sturdy blade, and you have the ULTIMATE LIGHTSABER TOY!!
Why is this the ULTIMATE LIGHTSABER TOY? What.. glowing blade not good enough for you? Have another look!
The price of this Ultimate FX Lightsaber is a fraction of a Replica Lightsaber at RM159. Since it's plastic, it's also very light. These 2 factors combined means you will have no reservations trying to practice twirling the thing around, if you drop it while you're playing with it, you'll just pick it up from the floor instead of going "Oh my god!!! I scratched my limited edition hilt!! Oh my god!!! I cracked my tiles!! Oh my god!!! My wife is going to kill me!!"
If you ever wanted to buy a replica lightsaber JUST for the cool blade effect, get this instead, it has the same effect AND you can actually play with it! How about a commercial to boil the blood a bit more?
It's tons of fun!
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The Forest Lake girls swimming and diving team lost a heartbreaker Thursday, Aug. 29, to White Bear Lake.
Senior Maddi Gemuenden took first place by a landslide in the 1-meter dive with 184.55 points. The next diver recorded 122.5. Junior Rachel Chatwin took top honors for the Rangers in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:15.25, a full two seconds ahead of the runner up from White Bear Lake.
Other top finishes include the 200-yard medley relay team of junior Stephanie Brenk, sophomore Emma Dolby, Chatwin and eighth-grader Kenzie Klein with a time of 2:04.76, and the 200-yard freestyle relay squad of ninth-grader Emma Nelson, Dolby, sophomore Andrea Dunrud and Chatwin with a time of 1:51.09. The latter team was out-touched by the Bears by less than half of a second.
Individually, Dunrud took second place in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 2:09.63, less than a tenth of a second behind the front runner. Junor Rocci Wohlk took second in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:37.50, while Klein took second in the 50-yard freestyle (26.81). Wohlk also took second place in the 100-yard butterfly in 1:12.24.
Chatwin took second in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 58:67, while Dunurd recorded a runner-up finish in the 500-yard freestyle in 6:00.78.
In the final event, the 400-yard freestyle relay team of Dunrud, junior Kristin Stomberg, junior Jessica Walker and Klein came up just short of the first-place points needed for the win by taking second in the event with a time of 4:09.02.
Next, Forest Lake goes up against Mounds View at 7 p.m. tonight, Sept. 5.


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Grilled Angel Food Cake with Strawberries
1/2 - Angel Food Cake (1/2 pound)
4 cups Strawberries, sliced
1 tablespoon Splenda, sugar substitute
1 tablespoon Torani Sugar Free Vanilla Bean Syrup
Non stick cooking spray
Rinse and core the strawberries. Slice and place into a bow. Add sugar substitute and vanilla bean syrup. Let this set.
Cut cake ring in 1/2. (you may carefully wrap and freeze the remaining 1/2). Cut into 8 even slices.
Preheat Grill to a medium temperature.
Lightly spray each cut side of the cake and place on grill.
This just takes 30-45 seconds on the grill..
and then flip to second side. DO NOT LET BURN.. remove onto a plate.
Serve on a dessert plate over 1/2 cup of macerated strawberries.
What about Cook's Illustrated's Vanilla Extract Test Results
In the April issue of Cook's Illustrated they did a test on vanilla beans and vanilla extracts.
They used some major brands including McCormick whom many of us grew up with , and Neilsen-Massey that is found in many gourmet stores and then some branded ones like Durkee.
Their conclusion is that good vanilla gets "cooked out" if baked very long. They felt that if you add vanilla extract after the pudding is made you get more flavor.
They tasted different real and fake vanillas in milk, the way that professional tasters do. The real vanillas of course won the day.
One reason is that real vanilla has over 250 flavor compounds in it and they develop as the extract sits. You can taste such subtle spicy, nutty and a complex flavors and in the Fake Vanilla they tasted bitter and medicinal. No doubt, imitation vanilla is made from a by product of paper production or it is a tar derivative. They did say that for making cookies imitation vanilla can do a pretty good job.
Well one thing for sure, it's hard to ramp up your vanilla in a recipe which I OFTEN do, to get that INCREDIBLE flavor if you use imitation. It will turn things bitter fast!
Patricia Rain was part of some vanilla tasting's in San Francisco early this year and she won some high acclaim for her Rain's choice vanilla extract. I say you be the judge. Try both some imitation and some real in a recipe and see if you can tell the difference. I know you will.
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If you're worried regarding the media warnings of the "bubble" bursting in what is commonly called "The Canadian Housing Marketplace." I ask you: What exactly is a "Canadian Real Estate Market?" States, cities, towns, and even neighbourhoods all differ. Property costs in Vancouver, BC are very different than in Windsor, ON. Both cities are Canadian but they have about a $700,000 gap in average dwelling prices. Real estate increase in King City, ON is substantially different than Toronto East (yet they're only 45 minutes apart). With changes so vast within such much small geographic locations how can the media summarize all real estate activity in a single class (The Whole Nation)?
My personal and professional belief is that a microeconomic strategy is a much safer strategy to understand the true underlying real estate action as it pertains to realistic purchases and activities. If you don't are a world-wide investor comparing Canada to the remaining part of the planet, then it will not do much good to review data on Canadian market activity as a whole. Even if you are a global investor, it's far better nail a few locales and research their performance individually rather than jointly.
So, then what is this marketplace and when will it explode? The response to that is regrettably NO ONE KNOWS. We have been learning about this for the greater part of 5 years yet we have yet to see it. Interest rates continue to be steady and for the very first time in modern Canadian history three major banks have offered the lowest fixed mortgage rates ever (2.99%).
With low interest rates along with a booming immigration system bringing in the right mixture of subscribers to our economy, real estate is an excellent investment (provided folks are willing to hold on if the marketplace dwindles a little). The inquiry is how long must people hold on? Whether or not people wish to believe it, we (Canadians) will probably not experience the same home fiasco that our buddies in the US experienced. For a deeper understanding of Eddie Yan, visit this webpage. Even if we use this microeconomic strategy for a US home operation evaluation, we will find that not all US cities have experienced this substantial decline and that many cities weren't hit very hard and are rebounding fairly nicely. Once again, an all encompassing categorization of real estate functionality by country does not even apply to the current US crisis. Consequently, how can it be used to evaluate a much more fiscally moderate and culturally diverse country like Canada?


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Man wanted in Gordon St shootout arrested
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) -- North Charleston Police have arrested 17-year-old Terrence Kendall McNeil, Jr. in connection with the November 25th attempted armed robbery of a man on Gordon Street.
Police say they found McNeil in a residence at St. Charles Place Apartments. Police say he was arrested without incident. He's charged with attempted robbery, attempted murder, and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.
According to police, officers were told on Sunday that the victim was on Leeds Avenue. When they located him, he told them he had been parked in a vehicle on Gordon when a man came up to him with a gun.The victim told police that he grabbed the gun when it went off striking him in his left hand. Police say that's when the suspect ran off, firing his gun at the car as he ran. The victim admitted to police that he fired back at the suspect. Investigators were told a short time later that a shooting victim was brought into MUSC and rushed into surgery due to a gunshot wound.
According to officials with the NCPD, that gunshot wound was to McNeil's face and neck area, which resulted in the injuries apparent in his booking photo.