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Many considered the French team lucky to get in ahead of world champion Mario Cipollini's Domina Vacanze outfit after failing to ignite the race a year ago.
And the wildcard entries look set to struggle on paper.
Didier Rous should lead the team's overall ambitions but, at 33, may find it a trip too far.
They failed to take a stage win or get a rider in the top 30 overall but their riders continued to battle throughout with a string of high finishes on various stages.
Jerome Pineas was the highest-placed rider on a stage with his second to Patrice Halgand on stage 10, while Damien Nazon impressed many of the world's best sprinters with third at the race climax on the Champs-Elysee.
Emmanuel Magnien, Franck Renier and Francois Simon were also among other top-10 finishers on various stages.
Some of the Brioches la Boulangere team have fared marginally better in some of the major races to date this season than 12 months ago.
Nazon is the highest finisher to date, with his 13th place in the Paris-Roubaix.

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By Ryan Huetter
From: Mammoth Lakes, CA
Apr 23, 2012
rating: 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b
There is now a mussy hook station at the end of the first pitch finger crack. A 70m rope just works for top-roping the first pitch. A 60 would probably work if you lowered off to climber's right.
OK route, kind of a 2 move wonder with a fun easy crack finish.
By Todd Townsend
From: Bishop, CA
Mar 12, 2013
rating: 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b
This is a tricky one to grade. I felt like the crux was harder than any single move on the JFMR, but overall it's much less sustained. Kind of a two-move-wonder, but they're a hard two moves. To me, the crux feels like a V1 boulder problem, which should make it about 10c.
A 70m rope gets you to the ground, I don't think a 60m would make it.
By old5ten
From: Berkeley + Sunny Slopes, CA
Apr 24, 2016
rating: 5.10a/b 6a+ 19 VI+ 19 E2 5b
|really fun crux, i'd give that at least 3 stars and well worthwhile - the section above is not all that great (probably because it doesn't see that much traffic and is a bit vegetated). i found that doing a hand jam for the crux right move was much easier than trying to work something with undercling fingers. also thought there are decent smears for the feet.


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Daring Fireball has revealed that the CDMA iPhone 4 is codenamed N92 and is entering the engineering verification (EVT) stage, one step before the design verification test (DVT) stage, which is right before manufacturing -- and right on time for a possible January 2011 launch.
The device itself is supposed to be identical to the current GSM iPhone 4 (codenamed N90) with the exception of the CDMA radio. While Verizon is the logical and persistent rumored carrier for the device, Sprint is also a possibility. Although not identical to US CDMA (don't get us started on CDMA2000 vs WCDMA vs whateverCDMAwhatever) China and Korea, among others, are also possibilities.
But again, the smart money -- the millions and millions of units sold smart money -- is on Verizon.
Daring Fireball's John Gruber points out why:
The key bit: "At the critical juncture […], when they should have gone for market share, they went for profits." I think this encapsulates Jobs's philosophy since taking over Apple in 1997. Take the high end of the market first, establish a brand and presence, then steadily start to expand.
If they're at that juncture with the iPhone now, expansion means CDMA. And in the U.S., it means Verizon.
He thinks there will be lineups. We do as well. What do you think?


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BELMONT — The Dominican University men's basketball team earned a key Pac West Conference victory on Saturday night by beating Notre Dame de Namur University 60-49.
The victory gave Dominican (10-8, 6-3) a season sweep and tie-breaking advantage against NDNU (5-12, 4-5) when it comes time to advance to the PacWest Championships March 7—9 at Azusa Pacific University.
Myles Carrillo had 14 points to pace the Penguins. It was only the second time in Carrillo's 69-game career he has led the team in scoring.
"We were in a rhythm early but they got us a little bit off balance," Dominican coach Booker T. Harris said. "Myles really looked for his shot in the second half and once he got going other guys started looking for him also."
Dominique Taplin led the Penguins' 42-25 rebounding edge with eight boards and Jammall Clark had seven.
Dominican, which is 6-1 at home this season, hosts Pacific University on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
Dominican women fall
BELMONT — Kimi Nakamura had a career night from beyond the arc, hitting six 3-pointers, but the Dominican women's basketball team came up on the losing end of a 70-68 decision against Notre Dame de Namur in overtime.
It was a costly loss for the Penguins (5-12, 4-5 Pac West), who are fighting for the sixth and final spot in the conference championships to be held at Azusa Pacific starting March 7.
Nakamura led all scorers with 20 points. Salonika Quewon-Owens added 13 points, nine rebounds, five assists, three steals and a block, and Sarah Nelson had eight points, five rebounds, four steals and three blocks before fouling out in overtime. Jasmine Cox had a game-high 10 rebounds to go with six points for Dominican.
Trisha Malaspina led the Argonauts (3-14, 2-7) with 15 points.
Tomales girls win
Janelle Kehoe scored 10 points to lift the Tomales High girls basketball team to a 44-28 win over Point Arena (15-5) in a non-league game.
Teammate Kayla Furlong was "all over the floor," Braves coach Chris Kenyon said, and led the defense with 13 rebounds and six steals.
"We played last night and didn't come out as strong as we'd like," Kenyon said, "but we picked it up in the second quarter."
Kehoe also had four rebounds, two assists and two steals for the Braves (14-7). Courtney Nygard nabbed six rebounds, three steals and one assist.
San Domenico edged
SAN FRANCISCO — Lulu Bernstein knocked down a 3-pointer late in the fourth quarter to bring the San Domenico girls basketball team all the way back from an 11-point third-quarter deficit. Bernstein's field goal from beyond the arc tied the score at 40.
But International (20-2), the top-ranked North Coast Section team in Division V, scored the final five points to post a tight 45-40 victory against visiting San Domenico in the Bay Area Showcase.
"It was a war. It was like a playoff atmosphere," San Domenico coach Mike Fulton said. "The intensity was crazy."
International defeated the Panthers by more than 30 points in two meetings last year.
"We got a confidence boost tonight in a loss," Fulton said. "They took it to us twice last year. It wasn't even close in either game."
Fulton said 32 turnovers ultimately were his team's undoing.
The Panthers (15-6) were led in scoring by Sasha Nagler's 18 points. Bernstein added 13 points. Aminat Oladunjoye had 10 rebounds and five blocked shots and Rachel Nagler contributed six steals and five assists.
Lacrosse honors
The Dominican men's lacrosse team was picked to finish second out of four teams in the Western Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association and three of its players were named to the preseason all-WILA team: Jake Fritz, Jake Bernstein, and Dane Farguson. Fritz led the Penguins, who tied for first with Colorado Mesa in 2012, with 30 goals last season and had 20 assists. He lead the WILA with 50 points, and his 3.85 goals per game was good enough for eight in the nation in NCAA Division II.
Bernstein was named first team all-WILA last season with 28 points and 16 goals on the season, and Farguson had 10 groundballs and caused seven turnovers.
Bowler is perfect
San Rafael's Scott Mansfield bowled his first perfect game on Wednesday in the Jack's Ringers league at Country Club Bowl. His previous best was a 267.


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WASHINGTON (Dec. 3)
When Steve Grossman's 9-year-old son dropped out of a baseball league, telling his father that "when you stopped coming to my games, it took all the fun out of it," the Democratic Party's national chairman knew it was time to quit.
After splitting his time between Capitol Hill and Boston for 22 months as the head of the Democratic National Committee, Grossman resigned this week, citing the desire to spend more time with his son and ailing father.
But don't expect this "genetic" Democrat and lifelong Jewish activist to drop out of the public spotlight.
Grossman's resume reads like an entry in who's who in Democratic and Jewish circles: former Massachusetts Democratic Party chair, president and chairman of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, honorary national vice chairman of United Jewish Appeal, campaign chairman of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston.
In fact, Grossman almost stepped down last year to run for Massachusetts governor.
While he plans to stay involved in the party, Grossman's surprise departure announced Wednesday hit Washington like a lead balloon.
"While it is good news for his family," President Clinton said, Grossman's resignation "is a loss for the Democratic Party. Steve has been a leader, a party builder, a prolific fund-raiser and a wonderful friend to Hillary and me."
Grossman won the hearts of Democrats by shattering fund-raising records as he nearly wiped out the party's $18 million debt, though the debt rose again to about $8 million after last month's congressional elections.
Grossman took the job when few would because of the party's mounting debt and investigations over fund raising in the 1996 campaign.
While the party under Grossman's watch returned millions in illegal contributions and ran up millions more in legal bills fending off criminal accusations, his legacy is likely to be remembered for the record amounts of money that he raised to reduce these debts and fund the 1998 congressional elections.
During his tenure, the DNC raised some $40 million.
"It was his leadership and commitment to Democratic principles that helped turn what was supposed to be a Republican midterm rout into a Democratic victory," said Ira Forman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, referring to Democratic gains in the elections last month.
It was the first time this century that a second-term president's party won seats in a congressional midterm election.
Washington's Jewish community has already begun to mourn the loss of one of its closest allies. Grossman will stay in the post until a successor is found, but intends to leave no later than March.


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Turner re-injures ankle, out for Falcons
Published: November 29th, 2009 | Tags: Atlanta Falcons, Michael Turner, Week 12 injuries
Falcons RB Michael Turner re-injured the ankle that kept him out last week, and he will not return to Sunday's game against the Buccaneers.
Turner had 33 yards on 12 carries before he exited the game in the third quarter. Jason Snelling took over for Turner.
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Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "haserl". * Package name : haserl Version : 0.9.27-1 Upstream Author : Nathan Angelacos <firstname.lastname@example.com> * URL : http://haserl.sourceforge.net * License : GPL-2 Section : interpreters It builds these binary packages: haserl - CGI scripting program for embedded environments The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 611445 My motivation for maintaining this package is: I'm developing a web interface for configuring an embedded device using Haserl, and having haserl installed as a package makes testing locally much easier. It can also be used for CGI scripting in non-embedded environments. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/haserl - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/haserl/haserl_0.9.27-1.dsc - git clone git://git.debian.org/collab-maint/haserl.git I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. P.S. Please CC me in any replies, as I am not subscribed to debian-mentors. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
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Clients can get indulgent in style with use of Y Spa's indoor and outdoor relaxation facilities for the day (usually £89). On-site facilities include indoor and outdoor saunas, a hydrotherapy pool, a salt steam room, mist and glacial showers, and a chill out room with sleeping pods. Complimentary tea or coffee is available on arrival, with each guest invited to choose a 25-minute facial or an indulgent scalp massage. Served from a hot and cold buffet, a two-course lunch of a main course plus a dessert is also included, with a menu that changes daily. Towels, robes and fluffy slippers are also provided.
Choose from the following options for a spa day with a two-course lunch, facial or scalp massage, and use of facilities:
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With its 350-acre estate dedicated to indulgence, Y Spa dishes out a host of beauty and holistic treatments as well as a thermal spa area. Along with indoor and outdoor saunas, the centre offers steam rooms, experience showers and a hydrotherapy pool, and there's even an option to stay overnight for extra relaxing.


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PUNTA GORDA — They didn't hit nearly well enough, didn't field nearly well enough, didn't pitch nearly well enough.
Therefore, the end came in a cavalcade of Charlotte hits and Osceola walks, errors and balks Friday night for the Warrior baseball team.
But it felt, strangely, like the beginning.
The beginning of something big.
"Sure, I would have loved to win and be going to play Plant next week," coach Kevin Mullins said, "but … "
But the Warriors return nearly everyone from a team that had 21 wins and until a late-season hiccup looked like the best in Pinellas County.
And there are rumblings a few key pieces might arrive via other programs in the county.
Imagine that: athletes transferring to Osceola.
"I don't know anything about that," star sophomore Taylor Layner said, "but I know that right now, we got the best team right here."
He might be right, even if the Falcons up Dunedin way are raising their hands and saying, "Uhhhh, don't think so."
Because everyone else seemed to start looking ahead before the last K could be scribbled in Friday's official scorebook, and the theme of the 2009 season was youth, let's look ahead.
Your top five baseball teams heading into next season:
1. Dunedin: Not to rain on Osceola's parade, but the Falcons will be scary the next few years. They return everyone from a team that won the conference and district for the fourth straight season and won 10 straight until a playoff loss to Jesuit on Tuesday.
They have a lefty ace in Alex Norris and plenty of right-handed complements, and Casey Turgeon might be the best returning player in the county.
Oh, and the second wave of players from that Dunedin Little League team that made such a big splash in 2006 are expected to show up next year.
I told Tom Hilbert after the loss to Jesuit that if I could buy stock in a high school baseball team, I'd load up on shares of the Falcons.
2. Osceola: If the rumors are true — and I would bet my autographed Casey Kotchman rookie card on it — Osceola is going to pick up a strong right-handed complement to Layner, giving the Warriors a great 1-2 pitching punch and a slick fielding shortstop who can hit and pitch a little as well.
Even without any additions, Layner is right — this is going to be a good team.
3. Clearwater Central Catholic: Injuries forced coach Todd Vaughan to play a lot of youngsters in 2009, and that will pay off next season.
While the Marauders lose pitcher Zach Olson, returner Patrick Camporini is ace material. And I'd never bet against Vaughan having two average teams in a row.
4. St. Petersburg Catholic: The Barons were up and down in 2009 (beat Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas but lose to Bishop McLaughlin?) but mostly up. That won't change in 2010. The Barons lose seven seniors, but only two saw significant playing time. Southpaw pitcher Justin Tedder has an All-County arm and bat, and Connor Obrochta is a nice bat in the middle of what will be an experienced lineup.
5. Northeast, East Lake, St. Petersburg, Countryside: Yes, this is cheating. But all of these teams have enough talent coming back to make a surprise run, and they were all over the place this past season.
Northeast will be senior-laden and after being the county's biggest disappointment in 2009 has a lot to prove. The Green Devils were the youngest of this group and showed some sparks this season. East Lake is always good for 15 wins but, lately, little more. And Countryside was the most inconsistent of this bunch but maybe the most promising.


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Social networking sites have provided companies with a platform to reach their consumers in a new, fresh, and efficient way. Retailers are one industry that has jumped on the social media bandwagon, however, they all are not on the same playing field. Let's take a look at what retailers are the top dogs on the various social media sites.
The top ten retailers on Facebook are: Walmart, iTunes, Target, Victoria's Secret, Amazon, Macy's, Kohl's, American Eagle, Abercrombie and Fitch, and Best Buy.
Next we have Twitter. The top ten retailers in this social category are: iTunes, Whole Foods, Victoria's Secret, Dell, Verizon, Urban Outfitters, Target, Amazon, Abercrombie and Fitch, and Toys R Us.
Check out the infographic below presented by Retail Customer Experience to learn more about the top retailers in social media and see if your favorite retailer made the cut.


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Berlin (Dec. 20)
Col. Kriebel, associate of Adolp Hitler, was released from pirson at the same time.
Three participants in the Bavarian Communist Revolution of 1919 were released. They are Gustave Landauer, Ernst Toller and Erich Muehsam, who is a noted German poet and Paolei Zionist. He was an intimate friend of Kurt Eisner.


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The Valuation of Human Capital in New York State Courts
Courts are often asked to adjudicate disputes that are economic in nature or have economic components. Attorneys and judges frequently lack formal training in economics and must rely on their intuition to guide their decisions. This shortcoming can lead to poorly reasoned decisions that have inequitable financial consequences. This paper explores the difficulties that the New York State courts have encountered in the valuation of human capital in the form of academic and professional degrees and licenses. This became an important consideration after the 1985 New York Court of Appeals decision in O'Brien v. O'Brien (66 NY2d 576), where the court ruled that human capital acquired during marriage is an asset subject to equitable distribution upon dissolution of the marriage. Prior to this decision, the distribution of marital wealth in divorce was confined to tangible assets. O'Brien opened the door to valuation of intangible human capital, which dramatically increased marital wealth. This ruling has had a profound impact in New York State since it affects all those who obtain education or training during a marriage that ultimately ends in divorce.
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Spectacular scenery awaits drivers along the 124 miles of Utah's Scenic Byway Highway 12.
Red Canyon hoodoos in the Dixie National Forest greet visitors near the southwest end of Highway 12.
A dead tree and the hoodoo behind it rise toward a gray sky in Red Canyon.
One of several trails wends through the brilliant red limestone hoodoos and red spires of Red Canyon about 3.5 miles east the junction of U.S. Highway 89 and Utah Highway 12. A few hundred more yards to the east on the highway is the Red Canyon Visitor's Center. The rust-colored red in the rocks is literally that: rust from the high levels of iron.
Campers in the Red Canyon Campground find themselves stranded after a downpour sends a flash flood through the canyon.
Since June 1, 1925, when children dressed as fairies greeted Utah Gov. George Dean's caravan at the site for the dedication of Utah National Park (later renamed Bryce Canyon National Park), the two tunnels in Red Canyon along Scenic Byway 12 have served as a magical entrance to Bryce Canyon National Park country for visitors.
A mudslide covers one lane of the highway and stalls traffic after a downpour sends a flood of water into the canyon.
From the steep edge of the cliff above, tourists snap photos of the amphitheater of hoodoos in Bryce Canyon National Park.
Light and shadows play across the amphitheater in Bryce Canyon National Park on a partly cloudy day.
Visitors to Bryce Canyon National Park hike through the amphitheater's giant hoodoos along the trail below Sunrise Point. Some 50 miles of trails in the park offer closer encounters with the majestic formations than one can get from the canyon rim.
Nearly white at the top and fading to an orange-pink at the base, a group of hoodoos catch a moment of sunlight in Bryce Canyon National Park.
Hikers navigate a snaking trail below Sunrise Point that leads to the bottom of Bryce Canyon's amphitheater and to the bases of the canyon's majestic hoodoos and eroding fins of stone.
Storm clouds gather over the Aquarius Plateau north of Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.
Highway 12 carves through pink, cream, red and orange hued rock as it descends to the desert below at Head of the Rocks.
As Highway 12 snakes across the desert below him, a boy explores at the scenic overlook at Head of the Rocks. The isolated highway and its spectacular scenery attracts many international visitors; one can hear tourists speaking a variety of languages at any of the pullouts and overlooks.
The Escalante River cuts an emerald-green swath through a landscape of pink slickrock.
Domes of striated slickrock line the rim of the Escalante River canyon.
At one point between the Escalante River Canyon and the town of Boulder, Scenic Byway 12 snakes along a narrow two lane path known as the Hogsback atop a curvy ridge high above the surrounding desert of undulating sandstone and canyons as far as the eye can see in any direction. This area was the last part of the United States to be mapped.
A no man's land of slickrock and sage rolls away to the west beyond a dead tree atop the Hogsback.
At one point between the Escalante River Canyon and the town of Boulder, Scenic Byway 12 carves a narrow two lane path known as the Hogsback along a curvy ridge high above a surrounding desert of undulating sandstone and canyons as far as the eye can see in any direction. This area was the last part of the United States to be mapped.
Layers of mountains in the Fish Lake range fade into the distance as Highway 12 winds toward the top of Boulder Mountain.
Aspen forests fly past the car window on the Boulder Mountain stretch of Highway 12.
Wildflowers bloom in the meadow near a scenic overlook on Boulder Mountain.
The Larb Hollow scenic overlook along Scenic Byway Highway 12 near the Boulder Mountain 9,600-foot-high summit of the road offers a view through the mountain's alpine evergreens of a formation within Capitol Reef National Park outlined by passing clouds while the sunlit Henry Mountains rise behind.
Light from the setting sun catches the old log one-room schoolhouse and the cliffs behind at Fruita, Utah, a Mormon agricultural settlement and town now within the borders of Capitol Reef National Park that was active from 1895 until 1947. Although Highway 12 ends at Utah Highway 24, the junction of the two roads is just a few miles west of the border of the park and the old Fruita school in the Fruita Rural Historical District within the park.
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Fir [English]; نراد [Arabic]; 冷杉属 [Chinese]; Tanne [German]; sapin [French]; abete [Italian]; モミ属 [Japanese]; Пихта [Russian]; abies [Spanish].
Linnaeus initially (1753) assigned all firs, spruces and pines to the genus Pinus. Miller forthwith (1754) assigned firs to the genus Abies (type species: A. alba). Various authors have assigned it to ranks above the level of family: Order Abietales Koehne 1893; Family Abietaceae Bercht. et J. Presl 1820; Subfamily Abietoideae Rich. ex Sweet 1826; Tribe Abieteae Rich. ex Dumort. 1827; and Subtribe Abietinae Eichler 1887. The genus has lately been revised by Rushforth (1987), with a full review of previous classification schemes provided by Farjon and Rushforth (1989). The classification used here is almost verbatim from Farjon (2010). As such, there are 48 species. The infrageneric classification is as follows:
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|Abies Miller
A. alba
A. x borisii-regis
A. cephalonica
A. cilicica
A. nebrodensis
A. nordmanniana
|Piceaster Spach emend. Farjon et Rushforth
A. numidica
A. pinsapo
|Bracteata Engelm. emend. Sargent
|A. bracteata
|Momi Franco
|Homolepoides (Franco) Farjon et Rushforth
A. homolepis
A. kawakamii
A. recurvata
|Firmae (Franco) Farjon et Rushforth
A. beshanzuensis
A. firma
|Holophyllae Farjon et Rushforth
A. chensiensis
A. holophylla
A. pindrow
A. ziyuanensis
|Amabilis (Matzenko) Farjon et Rushforth
A. amabilis
A. mariesii
|Pseudopicea Hickel emend. Farjon et Rushforth
|Delavayianae Faijon et Rushforth
A. delavayi
A. densa
A. fabri
A. fanjingshanensis
A. fargesii
A. forrestii
A. spectabilis
A. yuanbaoshanensis
|Squamatae E. Murray
|A. squamata
|Balsamea Engelm. emend. Farjon et Rushforth
|Laterales Patschke emend. Farjon et Rushforth
A. balsamea
A. lasiocarpa
A. sibirica
|Medianae Patschke emend. Farjon et Rushforth
A. fraseri
A. koreana
A. nephrolepis
A. sachalinensis
A. veitchii
|Grandis Engelm. emend. Farjon et Rushforth
A. concolor
A. durangensis
A. grandis
A. guatemalensis
|Oiamel Franco
|Religiosae (Matzenko) Farjon et Rushforth
A. religiosa
A. vejarii
|Hickelianae Farjon et Rushforth
A. hickelii
A. hidalgensis
|Nobilis Engelm.
A. magnifica
A. procera
"In Abies several traditionally accepted species have closely allied sibling species, e.g., A. balsamea-A. fraseri, A. bifolia-A. lasiocarpa, and A. magnifica-A. procera. Other species may be more distinct morphologically, but many of these still appear to have evolved in geographic isolation without strong reproductive barriers developing. Thus, when distributions of species overlap, introgression between the taxa is the rule; this may make it difficult to assign certain individuals to a species" (Hunt 1993). Although this opinion was formulated in regard to certain North American firs, it is exceptionally appropriate to the firs of southwest China, particularly those of subsection Delavayianae. Accurate determination of taxonomic relationships between these species will likely require genetic studies.
Tree: Like most other genera of Pinaceae, species of Abies are typically monoecious evergreen trees with a spire-like or conic crown that often becomes flattened or rounded in old trees. Near the alpine treeline, trees may grow with reduced stature and a contorted growth form, often forming krummholz at the upper limits of tree growth. Their form differs from most genera of Pinaceae in its exceptional uniformity; Abies typically possess a single straight trunk with regularly spaced branch whorls produced at the rate of one whorl per year, so that it is sometimes possible to determine the age of a tree 50 years old simply by counting branch whorls. The branch pattern is also exceptionally regular, with a single terminal and two lateral shoots produced each year at the tip of most active branches. Thus, Abies displays a geometric regularity of form that is only a little less common in Picea and Larix, is rather unusual in Pinus, and is not found in Tsuga.
Bark: Smooth and thin on young trees, bearing resin blisters, in age often thick and furrowed or flaking in plates. In most species the bark provides little protection against fire, although a few species are fire-tolerant.
Branches: Whorled, spreading, flattened into a horizontal plane, with irregular internodal branches occasionally produced by epicormic sprouting.
Shoots: Short (spur) shoots are absent. Twigs may be grooved or smooth; prominent leaf scars, circular to broadly elliptic, flush with twig surface, are slightly depressed or slightly raised evenly all around.
Leaves: Borne singly, persisting 5 or more years (maximum 53 years in A. amabilis), spirally arranged but often proximally twisted so as to appear either 1-ranked (pointing up like toothbrush bristles) or 2-ranked, sessile, typically constricted and often twisted above the somewhat broadened base, sheath absent; linear-lanceolate, flat, with two white stomatal bands beneath, keeled below, rounded or notched at the apex, with two resin ducts. Since many species are early seral and form dense stands, there is often a conspicuous structural difference between shade foliage, just described, and sun foliage, growing near the top of the crown in full sunlight. Sun foliage is more or less erect, incurved to nearly falcate, thickened or quadrangular. When identifying species, reference is made to mature shade foliage, unless otherwise noted. Buds are ovate or oblong with a rounded or pointed apex; terminal buds are surrounded by 4-5 secondary buds. Cotyledons 4-10.
Cones: Borne on year-old twigs, maturing in 1 season, erect, ovoid to cylindric, generally resinous, dehiscent (falling apart on maturity), cone axis persisting as an erect 'spike' on branch.
Cone scales: Lacking apophysis and umbo, rounded with a hidden or sometime protruding lobed bract (esp. see A. bracteata).
Pollen cones: Axillary, densely clustered along undersides of current year's twigs, globular or conic, appearing in the spring, pendant, yellow to red, green, blue, or purple, leaving gall-like protuberances after falling.
Seeds: Winged, with a resin sac at the wing-seed juncture.
Wood: Lacks resin ducts.
Sources: Li (1975), Silba (1986), Rushforth (1987).
x=12 (Hunt 1993).
"Notes on the following features, made at the time of collection of specimens, are useful in identification.
N America, C America, Europe, N Africa, Asia (S to Himalaya, S China, and Taiwan), i.e., temperate and boreal regions of the northern hemisphere, chiefly in mountainous regions (Li 1975). Excepting the two boreal species, A. balsamea (in North America) and A. sibirica (in Eurasia), the genus is confined to mountainous areas in the subtropical and temperate latitudes of the northern hemisphere. Within this realm, its distribution is confined largely according to its ecological requirements and its paleobotanical history.
For information on ecological requirements, paleobotany and modern distribution, see Farjon (1990).
The greatest diameter and stem volume are found in A. procera, though greater heights have been reported in A. grandis. The record trees for both species are found in Washington State, in the northwest United States.
Probably A. amabilis. Again, found in Washington State, though comparably old trees probably occur in Canada: British Columbia.
Species of Abies tend to occur on sites with ample moisture and deep soils, where they grow quickly and do not attain great ages. Such conditions characterize closed forest situations, where competition between individuals tends to obscure the effect of large-scale factors, such as climate, on tree growth. Moreover, the tree rings are often difficult to discern and the wood decays quickly after tree death. Consequently, Abies has received relatively little attention in comparison with, say, Pinus or Picea. What work has been done, has largely focused on ecological problems such as stand age structure and forest regeneration after disturbance.
"North American firs are cut for pulpwood and lumber and, largely from plantations, for Christmas trees. They are also grown as ornamentals. Species of Abies frequently have a pleasant odor; their foliage has been used as a stuffing material for pillows. Most commercial products with "pine odors" are in fact scented with essential oils distilled from Abies foliage by Russian farmers" (Hunt 1993).
"Abies" was the Latin name for an Old World species (Weber 1987).
Miller, P. 1754. The Gardeners Dictionary, abridged 4th edition. V.1, p.11.
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School district earns
state auditor's award
The Aurora school district has received the Ohio Auditor Award for 2013 for excellent record keeping. Auditor Dave Yost stated, "Clean and accurate record-keeping are the foundation for good government, and the taxpayers can take pride in your commitment to accountability."
The award is presented to local governments and school districts after having a completed financial audit and meeting the criteria of a "clean" report, meaning the audit did not contain findings for recovery, material citations, material weaknesses, significant deficiencies, single audit findings or questioned costs.
This is the third consecutive year the schools have earned the award.
Board of Education President Gerald Kohanski stated, "The district received an unmodified opinion, which is the best report it could receive and indicates the financial statements present fairly the financial position of theschools in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles."
Musicians at Leighton
given solo recognition
The Aurora Orchestra Association conducted its 16th annual solo competition April 12, when students from grades 4 and 5 performed in front of an independent judge. Ratings ranged from I (outstanding) to IV (poor).
The judge also selected overall first, second and third place winners from each grade level. They will receive trophies and be recognized during an awards ceremony after the final concert of the year May 14 at 6:30 p.m. (fourth) and 7:30 (fifth).
The results were as follows: Fourth-grade orchestra -- Alex Ventimiglia, first; Mason Kacmar, second; and Olivia Wamser, third.
Fifth-grade orchestra -- Ryan Stahl and Samantha St. John, tie for first; Catherine John, second; and Natali Wulff and Zachary R. Hart, tie for third.
"All of the students who participated did a fantastic job and represented Aurora well," said music teacher Eddie Nabring. "We thank the principals, superintendent and Board of Education for providing space and supplies for the event, and special thanks to the Aurora Orchestra Association for sponsoring it."
1994 class reunion set
The Aurora High School class of 1994 is seeking classmates for a 20-year reunion June 21. Classmates are encouraged to contact Jim Priscilla at email@example.com interested in participating.
Check honors list soon
Aurora High School has posted a list of 2014 honors diploma candidates on the guidance office window and by English and government classrooms, along with criteria required to qualify. Seniors anticipating receiving an honors diploma should check to make sure their names are on the list. Any questions should be referred to guidance counselor as soon as possible.
NEOMED considering
adding dental school
After 40 years of training physicians, then pharmacists and graduate students, Portage County's medical university is sinking its teeth into the possibility of training dentists
in the future.
Sergio Garcia, chief of staff at Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown, said NEOMED's board of trustees has been studying the possibility of adding oral health to the specialties offered there since September.
There are only two places in Ohio where potential dentists can study, a public program at Ohio State University, and a private program at Case Western Reserve. Only five of Northeast Ohio's 21 counties are at or above the national average ratio of patients to dentists.
Portage County, Garcia said, has 32 dentists per 100,000 residents -- about half the national average of 60 dentists per 100,000.
Garcia said NEOMED plans to do its "due diligence," studying the number of partnerships that would be available to dentists in training, the curriculum needs and how financially sustainable the school would be.
-- Diane Smith, Record-Courier
Good pupils revealed
Leighton School students "caught being good" last week were: Mason Smolen, third grade; Mitchell Copley, fourth; and Morgan Vaint, fifth.
Leighton School's annual parent volunteer appreciation luncheon will be May 22 at noon in the media center. Reservations are due by May 15.
Ohio Achievement Assessments testing will take place May 6 (reading for all students), May 7 (math for all students) and May 8 (fifth-grade science).
A talent show will tqake place April 29 at 6:30 p.m. at Leighton, while Leighton's orchestra concert will be May 14 at 6:30 p.m. at AHS and a BOGO book fair will be May 15-16.


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Donna Donithan Jones, 53, of Pulaski, passed away on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at Pulaski Community Hospital. Ms. Jones was born in Radford to the late Douglas & Betty Donithan. She is survived by son Rex Douglas Shelton of Pulaski; brother Douglas Donithan, Jr., of Pulaski; sisters & brother-in-law Susan Donithan of Pulaski and Nancy & Bill Jackson of North Carolina; special friends Chad Clyburn, Jr., Paige Reedy, and Tanecia Harvey and special companion her dog Lillie, and a host of friends and family. We will love and miss you forever!
Funeral services were held 10-24-09 at Ray's Cemetery.
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Predaprince wrote:Ironhidensh wrote:Actually, it only seemed to be ending badly for Bluebullit.
And what was the original topic anyway?
Yeah, because how would you know. All you seem to do is scan the threads to find where Shadowman is bashing someone who took an opposing side on an issue and begin personal negative attacks to that person with no knowledge of the original issue.
Hotrod, I'm quite surprised that a mod simply brushes aside what just happened. I, for one, am getting tired of seeing these two making immature bashes against people who have valid factual opposition to them on a valid TF issue.
And, I'm pretty sure that the two of them are going to start bashing me over what I just written and I say go ahead. Prove what you are and what you do to posters who merely state facts and their opinions.
Predaprince, don't worry about it.


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FRENCH and US presidents Francois Hollande and Barack Obama want to send the Syrian regime a ''strong message'' to condemn the alleged use of chemical weapons, the French presidency has said.
''Both heads of state agreed that the international community cannot tolerate the use of chemical weapons, that it should hold the Syrian regime accountable for it and send a strong message,'' a statement said on Friday.
The Elysee palace issued the statement after a phone conversation between Obama and his only major ally ahead of expected strikes against the Syrian regime.
''As close allies and friends, France and the United States will continue their consultation on Syria and on all other issues affecting international security,'' the statement said.
The White House issued an identical statement after the phone call, which an aide to Hollande said lasted around 45 minutes.
US chemical attack evidence false: Syria
DAMASCUS says that a US intelligence report concluding that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons in an onslaught that killed close to 1500 people was ''entirely fabricated''.
''What the US administration describes as irrefutable evidence ... is nothing but tired legends that the terrorists have been circulating for more than a week, with their share of lies and entirely fabricated stories,'' a foreign ministry statement read out on state television said.
A US intelligence report released on Friday concluded the regime launched a chemical onslaught in the suburbs of Damascus last week, killing 1429 people, including at least 426 children.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said the report gathered evidence from thousands of sources and the intelligence community has ''high confidence'' the regime was responsible for the attack.
But in its statement, the Syrian foreign ministry dismissed the report as a poorly crafted document informed mostly by social media.
It expressed surprise that ''a superpower could mislead its opinion so clumsily, relying on evidence that does not exist and that the United States could base policies on matters of war and peace on social media and websites.''
Obama undecided on Syria strike
US PRESIDENT Barack Obama said on Friday he had taken no "final decision" on striking Syria but that the world could not accept the gassing of women and children.
Calling Syria's alleged use of chemical weapons a threat to US national security, Obama said the response would be "narrow" and "limited", having considered a "wide range of options".
A "solely military solution" would not be found to the conflict in Syria," he said.
"This kind of attack is a challenge to the world," he said, adding that it increases the risk chemical weapons will be used in the future and against the United States.
Mr Obama slammed the "incapacity'' of the UN Security Council to act on Syria and warned the world must not be "paralysed'' on responding to a chemical weapons attack.
"What we have seen so far at least is an incapacity at this point for the Security Council to move forward in the face of a clear violation of international norms,'' Obama said, as he met Baltic leaders at the White House.
Obama said he understood that there was widespread war fatigue both in the United States, Britain and elsewhere, but that did not absolve nations of their responsibilities.
"Ultimately, we don't want the world to be paralysed. And frankly, you know, part of the challenge that we end up with here is that a lot of people think something should be done, but nobody wants to do it,'' Obama said.
His comments came a day after the British House of Commons voted against joining what are likely to be limited US-led missile strikes against President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Such reticence, Obama suggested, would allow the erosion on taboos over time on the use of chemical weapons and other international norms.
The president said he knew that the world was "war weary'' and noted Americans had gone through a decade of war and wanted to rebuild their economy.
"I assure you nobody ends up being more war-weary than me.
"What I also believe is that part of our obligation as a leader in the world is making sure that when you have a regime that is willing to use weapons that are prohibited by international norms on their own people, including children, that they are held to account.''
Syria negotiations ''problematic': Rudd
KEVIN Rudd says negotiations in New York over how best to deal with the unfolding Syria crisis have become "problematic".
The Prime Minister gave an update on the international response to the use of chemical weapons in Syria today and said there were a "range of views on the UN Security Council about the best way forward".
"As the situation in Syria continues to evolve the work in New York on finding a solution continues to be increasingly problematic," he said.
The Prime Minister again reiterated his call for all Australians in the Middle East to consider leaving, especially in Syria.
"Any Australians currently in Syria need to get the hell out of there," Mr Rudd said. "We're not fooling around."
The global community is currently debating how best to respond to the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria after images of convulsing women and children were spread around the world.
The US and Australia believe that the Syrian government was to blame and that there should be an "appropriate response".
But other nations are being more cautious.
- from Lanai Scarr and Gemma Jones
US has 'duty' to act in Syria: Kerry
THE US has intelligence showing that the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad was behind chemical attacks and the world must act to deter future chemical attacks, US Secretary of State John Kerry has said.
Mr Kerry said intelligence showed 1429 Syrians, including 426 children were killed in the August 21 attack.
Syria shelled the area for four days and then tried to cover up the evidence, Mr Kerry said.
"History will judge us if we turn a blind eye," Mr Kerry said, adding that while the US "believe in the UN", the upcoming UN report will not assign responsibility for the toxic attacks.
US President Barack Obama, who met with top security aides overnight, will make a decision on intervention on his own timelime, and after consultation with Congress and the American people, said Mr Kerry.
Mr Kerry said any military intervention would be limited, and it would not have "boots on the ground", be open ended or take responsibility for the civil war, taking pains to say it would be different from US action in Iraq, Afghanistan or Libya.
"Our intelligence community has carefully reviewed and re-reviewed information regarding this attack," he said, referring to last week's alleged chemical strike outside Damascus.
The report said that 1429 people were killed in the attack, including 426 children, and said the assessment was based on "multiple" streams of intelligence.
"The United States Government assesses with high confidence that the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs on August 21, 2013," the report, released by the White House said.
"We further assess that the regime used a nerve agent in the attack."
The report went on to detail casualty figures from the attack on a Damascus suburb on August 21, and said they would likely rise as new intelligence comes in.
The unclassified assessment, which omitted sourcing and raw intelligence to protect US intelligence assets, also debunked the theory, advanced notably by Russia, that opposition forces could have carried out the attack.
"We assess that the scenario in which the opposition executed the attack on August 21 is highly unlikely."
"The body of information used to make this assessment includes intelligence pertaining to the regime's preparations for this attack and its means of delivery, multiple streams of intelligence about the attack itself and its effect, our post-attack observations, and the differences between the capabilities of the regime and the opposition.
"Our high confidence assessment is the strongest position that the US Intelligence Community can take short of confirmation."
"It's done so more than mindful of the Iraq experience. We will not repeat that moment."
The US is committed to a diplomatic process, and there is "no military solution, it has to happen at the negotiating table and we are deeply committed to getting there," Mr Kerry said.
The White House had signalled on Thursday that Mr Obama, guided by the "best interests" of the US, was ready to go it alone on Syria after deadly chemical weapons attacks last week.
But Russia, the Syrian regime's most powerful ally, warned any military strikes would "deal a serious blow to the entire system of world order".
Turkey's prime minister said Friday that the limited strikes threatened by the United States against Syria were not enough and pushed for a broader military offensive that would topple the regime.
"A limited operation cannot be satisfactory for us,'' Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying by the NTV news channel.
"An intervention akin to that decided for Kosovo must be launched. An operation of one or two days will not be enough. The goal should be to force the regime out,'' he said.
''We are looking at the possibility of a limited, narrow act,'' he said.
Erdogan, whose country shares a long border with Syria, was once an ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad but is now one of his fiercest critics.
UN arms experts on Friday began a final day of inspections of the sites of the suspected gas attacks.
A UN spokesman said Thursday that the team had collected "considerable" evidence.
The team is due to leave the war-battered country Saturday and report back immediately to UN chief Ban Ki-moon, who has appealed to the West to allow time for their findings to be assessed.
"The team has completed its collection of samples and evidence," Mr Nesirky told reporters.
"They are now packing up, they will be leaving Damascus and leaving Syria tomorrow."
UN disarmament envoy Angela Kane left Damascus on Friday and will brief Ban in New York on Saturday, the spokesman added. Interpreters and other backup staff with the UN team also left on Friday, he said.
The 13 experts led by Ake Sellstrom are to take samples taken from the site of the alleged attack at Ghouta, near Damascus, to laboratories in Europe.
"Dr Sellstrom's team is doing its utmost to expedite the process of analysis," Mr Nesirky said while stressing "the need for rigorous attention to maintain the integrity of the process."
The spokesman said that the eventual report written by the inspection team would be given to all UN member states.
Faced with an impasse at the UN Security Council and the British parliament's shock rejection of any punitive action against the Syrian regime, the United States has been forced to look elsewhere for international partners.
While Germany and Canada ruled out joining any military strikes, French President Francois Hollande - whose country was a strident opponent of the war on Iraq - said the British vote would not affect his government's stance.
"France wants firm and proportionate action against the Damascus regime," Mr Hollande said in an interview with Le Monde newspaper, hinting an attack was possible by Wednesday.
US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said the White House respected the British vote and that it was still seeking an "international coalition that will act together" against Syria's regime.
"We are continuing to consult with the British as with all of our allies. That consultation includes ways forward together on a response to this chemical weapons attack in Syria," he said in the Philippines.
The British rejection also came after the failure of an 11th-hour effort by British diplomats to win UN backing for action against President Bashar al-Assad's regime at a meeting of the permanent members of the Security Council.
"It is clear to me that the British parliament, reflecting the views of the British people, does not want to see British military action. I get that and the government will act accordingly," Mr Cameron said.
His government was defeated by just 13 votes in its bid for a "strong humanitarian response" to Syria's alleged use of chemical weapons against its own people in the August 21 attacks.
Members of the House of Parliament voted against the government motion to support a military campaign by 285 votes to 272 votes.
Key Damascus allies Russia and Iran have warned against any Western intervention, saying it risked sparking a wider conflict in the already volatile Middle East.
But the military buildup was continuing in the region, while in Damascus the mood was heavy with fear and security forces were making preparations for possible air bombardments.
US warships armed with scores of cruise missiles are converging on the eastern Mediterranean, and US military officials have said they are ready to launch a powerful barrage against regime targets.
Envoys from the permanent Security Council members - Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States - met Thursday for the second time since Britain proposed a draft resolution to permit "all necessary measures" to protect Syrian civilians, but no breakthrough was reported.
Assad's ally and main arms supplier Russia has blocked all attempts to toughen sanctions against Damascus or authorise outside force to punish or unseat the regime.
Syria is in the 29th month of a vicious civil war in which more than 100,000 people have died and about three million more have become refugees or displaced, according to UN figures.
The suspected use of chemical weapons in Syria demands an international response but NATO will not take part, alliance head Anders Fogh Rasmussen told Danish media on Friday.
"I see no NATO role in an international reaction to the (Syrian) regime,'' Rasmussen told reporters in the Danish town of Vejle, daily Politiken reported.
He said the alleged use of chemical weapons was "a terrifying and horrible act. Chemical attacks are a clear violation of international standards - a crime that can't be ignored.''
"It demands an international response, so it doesn't happen again,'' Mr Rasmussen said.
The NATO secretary general has in the past insisted on the need for a political solution to the Syrian conflict.
Rasmussen said he firmly believed the Syrian regime was behind the attack.
"I have no doubt that the regime carried out a chemical attack,'' he said, adding: "When you look at who has the chemical stocks and the means to use them in an attack, you have to say that it is the regime."
"There's not much to suggest that the opposition would be in a position to carry out such an attack.''
Assad, whose regime strongly denies using chemical weapons and instead blames "terrorist" rebels, has remained defiant in the face of the threats.
"Syria will defend itself in the face of any aggression," he said on Thursday, vowing "victory" for his people.
Meanwhile, fierce fighting has raged in a town near the Syrian capital that a UN team visited this week to probe deadly gas attacks.
"Violent fighting is pitting regular armed forces against rebels on the northern and western fronts of Moadamiyet al-Sham," the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday.
"The army is trying to advance into the town," it said, adding that an air raid and a surface-to-surface missile launched by the army had targeted the area southwest of Damascus.
Moadamiyet al-Sham is one of the places allegedly hit by chemical attacks on August 21 that the opposition say killed hundreds, and UN inspectors who are currently probing if the incident actually took place visited the town on Monday.
According to the Observatory, the town was hit by more than 10 air raids and hundreds of missiles and rockets on the day of the alleged gas attack.
Western states blame the regime of Bashar al-Assad for the attack, which also allegedly hit the Eastern Ghouta area near Damascus, but his government strenuously denies any involvement.
The army has for months been trying to take Moadamiyet al-Sham and Daraya - another Damascus suburb - back from the rebels, without success.
According to Damascus-based anti-regime activist Ibrahim Shaiban, these two rebel strongholds have been "intensely" bombed since Thursday.
"Regime forces have also dispatched men and tanks as back-up," he said.
On Thursday, eight people - including at least a woman and a child - died in Moadamiyet al-Sham bombings, and one person was killed in Daraya.
A top security official in Damascus said the army was "in permanent confrontation with terrorist groups who are in Moadamiyet, and have been for a long time".
Earlier, a napalm attack killed 10 teenagers and left many more with serious burns after the incendiary device was dropped on a Syrian school.
Footage of the dead and injured schoolchildren was captured by a BBC Panorama documentary crew who responded to reports of an incendiary bomb being dropped on a playground in Syria's rebel-held northern region.
The camera team saw what they described as scores of children with napalm-like burns over their bodies.
Witnesses told the BBC the bomb was dropped by a fighter jet which had been flying back and forth overhead. It landed with a dull explosion, followed by columns of fire and smoke.
The release of the footage follows the failure of Britain, Washington's closest European ally, to reach a political consensus over plans to join expected US-led military action in Syria.
On Friday, Australia's Opposition Leader Tony Abbott ruled out intervening in Syria if he is elected prime minister at the weekend, saying Australia should not overestimate its importance in the fight between "two deeply unsavoury sides".
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has said there is a case for a robust international response on Syria, but has not given details.
Mr Obama, although still reportedly weighing his options, has signalled the US was moving toward a punitive strike, saying he has "concluded" that Assad's regime is behind the attacks and that there "need to be international consequences."
US intelligence officials said the intelligence linking Assad or his inner circle to the August 21 attack is no sure thing, with questions remaining about who controls some of Syria's chemical weapons stores and doubts about whether Assad ordered the strike.
The United States overnight implicitly reserved the right to unilaterally strike Syria, alone, in its own national interest, without waiting for allies to join an operation, as UN Security Council held new talks on the Syria chemical weapons crisis but made no apparent progress.
The White House said Mr Obama prized the United Nations and closely consulted allies, but that in the end, his first duty was to US national security, which he sees threatened by a Syrian chemical weapons attack.
"We certainly are interested in engaging with the global international community on this issue," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.
"But at the same time, the president's chief accountability is to the American people that he was elected to protect.
"The president believes strongly in making the kinds of decisions and taking the kinds of steps that are necessary to protect our core national security interests that we've acknowledged are at stake in this situation."
The political fracas in London has sparked speculation that a timetable for action, which many observers believe could see air strikes in Syria within days, could slip.
Tony Travers, the director of the government department at the London School of Economics, said Cameron had clearly miscalculated when he brought Parliament back early from its summer recess. He said the move had been unpopular even within Cameron's Conservative Party.
"Clearly this will be seen as a defeat, it suggests he got the politics wrong, both with the opposition and with some members of his own party,'' Mr Travers said.
"It's not great, it's not brilliant, nor is it the end of the world for him. He's lost votes before. It doesn't necessarily stop them taking further action, but they are going to have to start again really.''
He said there was "not a lot'' of public support for British military activity in Syria.
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"It is certainly going to place some strain on the special relationship (with the US),'' Defence Secretary Philip Hammond told BBC radio.
"The Americans do understand the parliamentary process that we have to go through.... Common sense must tell us that the Assad regime is going to be a little bit less uncomfortable tonight as a result of this decision in Parliament.''
The suspected chemical weapons attacks took place August 21 in suburbs east and west of Damascus. The humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders has said the strikes killed 355 people.
Gruesome images of sickened men, women and children writhing on the floor drew outrage from across the world, and Cameron recalled Parliament from its summer break for an emergency vote, which was widely seen as a prelude to international action.
"The video footage illustrates some of the most sickening human suffering imaginable," Mr Cameron told lawmakers before the vote, arguing that the most dangerous thing to do was to "stand back and do nothing."
But the push for strikes against the Syrian regime began to lose momentum as questions were raised about the intelligence underpinning the move. During a debate with lawmakers, he conceded that there was still a sliver of uncertainty about whether Assad truly was behind the attacks.
"In the end there is no 100 per cent certainty about who is responsible," Mr Cameron said, although he insisted that officials were still as "as certain as possible" that Assad's forces were responsible.
That was not enough for Britain's Labour Party, which is still smarting from its ill-fated decision to champion the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The party announced its opposition to the move despite Mr Cameron's concessions, which included a promise to give UN inspectors time to report back to the Security Council and to do his utmost to secure a resolution there.
He also promised to give lawmakers a second vote in a bid to assuage fears that Britain was being rushed into an attack.
In the end, it wasn't enough to dispel lingering suspicions that what was billed as a limited campaign would turn into an Iraq-style quagmire, and Cameron lost the late-night vote 285-272.
Assad has vowed Thursday that "Syria will defend itself" against Western military strikes .
The Syrian government denies allegations it was behind the use of chemical weapons, saying rebels staged the attack to frame the regime.
"Threats to launch a direct aggression against Syria will make it more adherent to its well-established principles and sovereign decisions stemming from the will of its people, and Syria will defend itself against any aggression," he said in comments reported by the Syrian state news agency.
It's not clear whether Assad would retaliate against any attacks or try to ride them out in hopes of minimizing the threat to his continued rule. The US has said regime change it not the objective of any military action it may carry out.
The UN experts have been carrying out on-site investigations this week to determine whether chemical weapons were used in the attack that the group Doctors Without Borders says killed 355 people. Inspectors visited the eastern suburb of Zamalka, where they interviewed survivors and collected samples.
Amateur video posted online showed UN inspectors in gas masks walking through the rubble of a damaged building. One inspector scooped pulverised debris from the ground, placed it in a glass container and wrapped the container in a plastic bag.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Western powers to hold off on any military action until the experts can present their findings to UN member states and the Security Council. Speaking in Vienna, Mr Ban said the UN team is to leave Syria on Saturday morning and will immediately report to him. He also said that he spoke to Mr Obama about ways to expedite the UN probe.
Some of the experts will take samples to laboratories in Europe after leaving Damascus, according to UN spokesman Farhan Haq, adding that the team's final report will depend on the lab results and could take "more than days."
The mandate of the UN team is to determine whether chemical agents were used in the attack, not who was responsible. But Haq suggested that evidence collected by investigators - including biological samples and interviews - might give an indication of who was behind the attack.
The US has already dispatched naval forces toward the eastern Mediterranean toward Syria's shores. If Mr Obama decides on military action, US administration and defence officials in recent days have said the most likely move would be the launch of Tomahawk missiles off ships in the Mediterranean.


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Oktoberfest by the Sea is Sept. 29-30 in Davenport!
Beer lovers, foodies, fall enthusiasts, and friends of Save Our Shores are invited to attend the 1st annual Oktoberfest by the Sea: Sept 29 & 30,
12 pm – 6 pm
A family-friendly event taking place in the lot next to the Davenport Roadhouse where you'll enjoy:
• Delicious food and drink like a variety of sausages, grilled chicken, sauerkraut, goulash soup, and five different beers.
• Music by Davenport Roadhouse's favorite rock & rollers, the Coffis Brothers, and the alt-country McCoy Tyler Band from 2 pm – 6 pm.
• Jumpy house, face painting, and games for kids.
• Raffle with lots of great items from local businesses.
• FREE admission!
Oktoberfest benefits "Tip the Ocean," a new program in partnership with LiVBLUE and Save Our Shores to raise funds for local beach clean-ups and to bring kids to the ocean.
The restaurant will also be open if you would like to join us there for our regular menu featuring fresh and creative California cuisine.
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Hi,I am new here and I was just curious,did anyone else feel pressure from their Ob/gyn or pediatrician to circumcise their son? My mom was an intactivist mom ahead of her time and she refused to have any of my brothers cut. She had witnessed her nephew being circumcised and vowed it would never happen to her child. She showed me all the information and made me promise not to allow it to happen to my son. As soon as the ultrasound said I was having a boy,the nurses and my Ob asked me to sign papers to allow him to be circed. I refused. They tried to tell me horror stories about how he would get constant infections,probably end up having to have an "emergency"circumsision,his future wife would be more likely to have cancer,it would be harder for him to "have relations",etc. They tried at every visit to pressure me and did so up until his one month checkup and I actually switched doctors because of this. Almost four years later,we have not had one problem with infection. Now my niece is pregnant and I showed her the pictures of the circumsision being performed and she vows to never put her son through that. The thing is,they tell her all the horror stories as well. Is there any site that I could print out info for her to take to her doctor so they will stop scaring her? Sorry if this post was rambling and didn't make sense.
Honestly, I'd be inclined to report any medical professional who did that to their state medical board for soliciting unneccesary surgery. Since the AAP says that it is the parents' choice and it is a cosmetic or personal choice, they really have no business telling you otherwise. Can you direct your niece toward a OB office that is less likely to behave in that manner or a midwife or even a GP?
I am sure there are some more that I am not thinking of but perhaps that will get you started. You might want to have her ask the Dr if there are some many problems why are most Europeans, Asians, South Americans, Australians, New Zealanders, ect... intact and just fine.
ETA: Welcome To the board.
Oh yes, we certainly did. My DW's OB/GYN asked about it several times at pre birth office visits, and we said no. Seemed like it was all resolved.
Then, at the actual birth, just after I had cut the umbilical cord, he began pressuring us big time. My wife was so out of it, she does not even remember, and if I had not been there, probably would have succumed to his pressure. He walked back and forth, tone of voice, posture, practically pleading with me to change my mind. I beleive many people would have changed thier mind under his assault.
Very unprofessional.
Tell him to sod off.
Very few boys in the UK are circ'd. It usually only happens for religious or medical reasons. I'm pretty sure the majority of the male population aren't harbouring penile infections. Circumcision is no substitute for soap and water.
LOL!:Amen to that!!!
Every time I hear stories like this, I imagine myself being in the parents place and giving the doctors a lecture on what the heck they are talking about and then going back home and reporting them to their supervisors along with AP info.
We were not pressured at all. I didn't like the whole "oh and here's the consent form for his circ" attitude, but once we said no, the doctors said, "oh good for you. you know, there's really no reason to do it". If only they would tell parents that before.
I never had any pressure beyond the "are you planning to circ?" question - which, ftr, I imagine is pressure enough for some parents who don't really know any different.
Nope, no pressure. They asked when I got there I said no and they took the circ paper out of the stack to sign. Then when my OB came for my follow up before discharge, she asked if we were circing and I said no. She said 'see ya in 6 weeks then!'
The End!
Yeah, this is very unprofessional. I would report them, given the complete lack of professional help and violation of AAP guidelines! Is your relative using the same pediatricians? Is this in rural Kentucky or something? Because stories like yours are not the norm, thankfully. Most doctors won't pressure you either way and good job for switching! They may ask, but will remain neutral. Seriously, you think that in 2008, we would not have to deal with such crap! I'm intact by the way; so good job on your choice. How is the new doctor?
I was very worried about it beforehand but things were fine in the hospital. Not one person mentioned it until my OB was discharging us. She was on her way out the door and then turned around and said, Oh wait- are you wanting to have him circumcised?" We said "No way!" and she smiled and looked so relieved and said "Great decision!".
At the hospital where my cousin had her baby they have big boards on the wall in each postpartum room with a bunch of squares with thing that need to happen and boxes to check off when they were done (hearing test, newborn pictures, etc.) and one of the squares said "Circumcision" with a picture of a baby in blue blanket or something like that. It very much implied that circumcision was a given
Thankfully we didn't have any pressure from the OB or pediatrician. The OB asked me the day after delivery if I wanted to circ, I said no, and he said nothing more about it.
It makes me sad that so many doctors try to pressure people into it.
Thanks for the welcome all. We do live in rural Kentucky. There are only one group of doctors that come to our town. We can drive to a larger area that is about 40 minutes away but at the time I was unable to make the trip so I used the local health clinic and my niece does the same. She is six and a half months along so she doesn't want to switch doctors. I begged her to let me just drive her to another doctor when she first got pregnant but she wouldn't listen. Thankfully I went in prepared but a lot of moms really believe they are doing what is healthiest for thier child. I like going to her appointments with her and preaching against circumcision to the patients. There has been a few that changed their mind. A lot of them get medical cards and the doctors know they can charge them quite a bit. I found a great pediatrician in my town that is great with my son and I made my wishes clear to her on the first visit(that she is not to retract his foreskin). She never has and she has told all her nurses that they are not to do so either. I am glad other people share my views that it should be illegal. I don't think a parent should even have the right to decide that. When people have females circumcised they call it mutilation but when it's males they call it a personal choice.
My OBGYN is also mine and my son's Dr.
We didn't know his sex before he was born but circ was never a consideration. I'm from the UK and my husband is American and circ'd. We talked about circ a long time ago when we were dating and he was of the usual US male opinion, that being, to circ any male child of his.
We talked about it, I gave my UK based perspective on it (ie it was abhorrent/weird/a mutilation/WHY???) and he researched it, having never given it (like most US males) a second thought. Part of me was sorry he did.
The poor bloke He went through a really difficult period of mourning and anger about what was done to him as an infant. I really felt for him.
So my OBGYN asked, if the baby was a boy, whether we were planning to circ. I said no and added that anyone who came near the baby's penis with a scalpel (if it had one ) better be prepepared for violence from my husband. She said 'Thank goodness for that" and marked the chart.
I've never mentioned the "do not retract" mantra even once, she's a well informed Dr. The only time she's touched my sons penis in all his well baby visits was once when she removed his diaper to check his testis and he'd pooped.
She grabbed a box of wipes, a clean diaper and changed him for me!
I don't remember ever receiving any pressure from doctors - mine or my son's - to circ. The only pressure I ever got was from my family members and acquaintances. I live in Houston, Texas, if that makes any difference.
My son spent some time in the NICU after birth. After a fresh wave of horror stories from my family, I asked the NICU doctor what he thought about circ. He cocked his eyebrow at me and said, "Why? Don't worry about that. He doesn't need it." And then went on to talk about something else, basically dismissing my question. I couldn't have been happier.
My doc asked me what my plans were about circ. I said I would not do it. She said "Good, I tell parents not to do it."
At the hospital, at least 5 people asked if I wanted ds circ'd - I said no each time but they kept asking.
Honestly, I didnt know much about it then, had never reasearched it, and didnt find out we were having a boy until he was born - I said 'no' because it just gave me a bad feeling, and I didnt want him to be hurt - and I am SO GLAD I trusted my instinct- I would have been tramitized if I had eneded up doing that to him and I dont understand how people can make that choice
No pressures from either of mine, all the Drs and nurses said I was making the right choice and that there was no reason for it.
People in the actual hospital praised us actually. The nursery supervisor told our ped we were "holding off" on the circ, because he came in to tell us he didn't do them so if we wanted it done later we'd have to find another doctor. He was very happy when I explained we weren't holding off, we were againist it. We were asked at check in once for the paperwork, then a nurse who brought him back to us after the ped saw him the first time asked if we were going to do it because she was suppose to go over instructions with us if we were. But that was really it...at least at the hospital. I was paranoid going in because on our tour, the same nurse who told our ped we were "holding off" showed us around & insisted on showing us where they strap the boys down for their circs. She was obviously pro-circ, but she never had any interaction with us when we had DS. But nurses came & told us that was great & told us how they left their sons intact as well. Made us feel even better considering we live in a high circ area.
Now, the OB's office was different.
As soon as I found out it was a boy, they handed us a bill. Had to be pre-paid. I called & said we didn't want it done, so not to bill us like the paperwork said we'd be billed. The lady on the phone told me to "think it over" & I got the bills. Again, I called & told them not to send them. About 2 weeks later I get ANOTHER letter saying that if I didn't pay my late payment & current payment, they'd want everything paid in advance before seeing me for anything, even my regular OB visits. After a day on the phone & calling several people in that building, I got it taken care of.
A doctor also mentioned it to us, even though it was marked in our chart that it wasn't getting done. When we told the midwife to correct our chart (we were asked when they confirmed my pregnancy, I said we weren't sure because I was still talking to DH about it, but they went ahead & marked circ anyway), she obviously cringed. She also rolled her eyes when she realized I had changed DH's mind (DH said something to that effect, I forget what though) & if she wasn't in a hurry I think she would have given me a lecture about how the dad should choose since he has a penis & I don't.
And my personal favorite circ comment EVER? Right after DS was born, after 24 hours of labor, 3 hours of pushing & about 3 minutes away from an emergency c-section if he hadn't come when he did, I hadn't even got to hold DS yet, the doctor is stiching me up, & he asked "So...you want him circ'ed?" I told him no, then he said he remembered that was in my chart. He then said, "I figured if I had to stay here all night for you, I'd go ahead & do it myself instead of letting the weekend on call OB do it so I could get paid for it." That left me pretty speechless.
Please, anybody here who posted a story about inappropriate pressure to circumcise (even having circumcision consent forms in the standard stack given to parents), I hope you will write (or have already written!) a letter of complaint to the physician, nurse, or facility involved. Patient satisfaction (and the income that flows from it) is the most important thing to hospitals, and your criticisms will not go unnoticed. I know of a lady locally who wrote her hospital about the pressures she had received and they made all kinds of changes in their policies from it. Tell them what you feel they should or should not be doing/saying - you never know what changes you might produce! If you don't write, they'll just continue with their unthinking behavior.
When you write, it is always helpful to use a "sandwich" approach - start out with something nice to say about their care/etc, then give the criticism, then end with something nice again. They'll listen better.
We weren't pressured to circ our son, but we were asked about a million times. I seriously think that we were asked 10 times, even after they had put it on his chart that he was not to be circ'd. It was really pretty ridiculous...
I would sooo report that. That's just ridiculous.
I was on the other end-my OB NEVER asked and I hadnt even thought about it. In fact, I dont think my OB did them (for all I know, he might have been intact himself and this was his method of discouraging it? Who knows) and I wasnt asked until I was in labor, by the nurse at the hospital. I said sure, she said its not covered by insurance, and I said ok, nevermind. LOL He still never asked me during, after, even at the week checkup. I literally never heard him mention it!
also make sure you read this
A Warning For Parents of Intact Sons http://www.mothering.com/discussions...d.php?t=129378
Congrats on your upcoming baby boy!!!!
After being stupid enough to agree to a hospital birth against our common sense, and after our newborn babe had a pneumothorax due to the aggressive resucitationr land lan on the counter stating "NO CIRC"
While waiting for our baby to be transferred across town, didn't know if he would even LIVE , we were asked REPEAPet dly if we wanted his penis cut! WTF! 4 or 5 times the questio n was presented!!!
Priorities in US birth?! With our dismal mortality rates?
Con mer messing up, I'm sure the message still gets through...
Mo dtor informed me sh adjusted my sig, not sur what it will be,
Thanks, Moniter!
At the hospital (midwife care) 25 miles away, they asked me on the first visit "If the baby is a boy, do you want him circumcised." ::: DH and I said no at the same time, the MW kind of wiggled, and went to the next question-- still don't know if it was a good wiggle or a bad wiggle.
It should be illegal. illegal. illegal.
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In his talk "A Broken Heart and Contrite Spirit" Elder Bruce D Porter speaks about the importance of having a broken heart. Elder Porter explains that Mosaic law symbolically pointed to the sacrifice that our Savior made to us. The Savior is the perfect example of a broken heart since he submitted his will to the Father's in all things.
Elder Porter emphasizes that when our hearts are broken and our spirits are contrite that we are open to the spirit. We also recognize our total dependence on God. Additionally we sacrifice all forms of pride in order to have our hearts opened in that way. We should look to the Savior's example when he submitted to the will of the Father and took on the sins of the world.
Elder Porter points out that a broken heart and contrite spirit are also necessary for repentance. Elder Porters speaks of the ache that comes with godly sorrow and how that helps us to change what we are doing so that we can use the Atonement and repent of our sins. A broken heart can also protect us from sinning, as it helps to put the worldly things around us into a proper perspective. Finally Elder Porter says that a broken heart helps us to feel gratitude for the Savior and the Atonement for our sins.
This talk helps us to see the importance of developing a broken heart and contrite spirit in our lives. It is important to realize the many ways that having a broken heart affects our lives. Sometimes it is difficult to admit our total reliance on God and to submit our will to His, but it is important that we do so. This will help us to find greater peace and happiness in our lives.
I know that the times that I have had a broken heart, I've been strengthened by the Lord and been able to meet great challenges that I could not have without the Lord's help. Additionally I have been able to receive guidance and promptings that have helped me to make the right decisions. Whereas the times I have not had a broken heart, I have had a difficult time accomplishing the things set before me. I hope that you will take the time to read and ponder this wonderful talk.
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Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by El Presidente, Feb 3, 2013.
I stuck an item on eBay this morning, the start price was
You should be able to edit the listing as long as it is within the 48 hour period of the end listing time. At least here in the USA it is like that. I would not end the auction unless he sent you payment, if he sends payment from PayPal then you can end your listing early with no issues, again as long as it is within the 48 HR period of end
I've sold hundreds of things on Ebay and never had this occur. I've had people contact me with lower starting bids, but I said no thank you. I've never used buy it now.
Yeah I always stick mine on for 0.01 with no reserve and let it go. I didn't know you could edit listings.
Thanks, I've messaged him to ask if he'll increase his bid to the price we've discussed.
Well it turns out you can change the invoice amount after selling the item. It's sold and the money is pending in my PayPal account. Thanks for the input folks
dont ship your item until payment is cleared.
Yes he will only be required to pay $90 euro. The worst part is once some one bids on an item then the item can only be bid on & no one can buy it now.
A lot of people make the mistake of thinking I can start the bid at 99c & my buy it now what I want for it. That is not the case. Once some one bids 99c they can ride the auction out until it closes & get the item for 99c if no one else bids.


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A crafts fair is being held through Nov. 11 at the Museum of Arts and Crafts Itami in Hyogo Prefecture, where products including pottery, handwoven and dyed textiles, and engraved metal items are on sale.
Eight workshops will be open to teach visitors how to make various craft works.
The fair is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. except Nov. 11, when it will close at 4:30 p.m. It will not be open this Monday.
Admission is free, but participants in the workshops will have to pay a fee.
The venue is a six-minute walk from Itami Station on the JR Takarazuka Line and a nine-minute walk from Itami Station on the Hankyu Itami Line.
For more information, visit mac-itami.com (in Japanese) or call (072) 772-5557.
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The Ohitaki Festival, a sacred fire ritual to express gratitude for the year's rice harvest, will take place at Kibune Shrine in Kyoto on Wednesday starting at 11 a.m.
The festival is also aimed at getting rid of bad spirits.
The shrine is a 30-minute walk from Kibune Guchi Station on the Eizan Densha Line. Visitors can also take a five-minute ride on Kyoto Bus 33 from the station and get off at the Kibune bus stop.
Admission is free. For more information, visit kibune.jp/jinja/ (in Japanese) or call (075) 741-2016.
Oscar-winning Danish film on tap in Suita
The National Museum of Ethnology in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, will show the award-winning Danish film "In a Better World" on Nov. 10.
The movie, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, will start at 1:30 p.m.
No reservations are required and admission is free, but numbered tickets will be distributed from 10 a.m. on the day of the showing.
The museum is a 15-minute walk from Bampaku Kinen Koen and Koen Higashiguchi stations on the Osaka Mono Rail Line.
For more information, visit www.minpaku.ac.jp/english (in English) or call (06) 6878-8210.
Rose festival at Shonai Ryokuchi Green Plaza
An autumn rose festival will be held at Shonai Ryokuchi Green Plaza in Nagoya on Nov. 10 and 11.
An outdoor concert will be held and fruit, pickles and snacks will be available for sale.
Shonai Ryokuchi Green Plaza is open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Admission is free.
The park is located near Shonai Ryokuchi Koen Station on the Tsurumai subway line.
For more information, visit www.nga.or.jp/syonai/ (in Japanese) or call (052) 503-1010.
Sustainable development event in Nagakute
The Aichi ESD Festa 2012 is taking place in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, on Saturday and Sunday to promote the concept of "Education for Sustainable Development."
The festival featuring talk shows, concerts, workshops and other events runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The venue, Ai Chikyuhaku Kinen Koen "Morikoro Park," is near Ai Chikyuhaku Station on the Linimo Line.
For more information, visit www.pref.aichi.jp/0000054487.html (in Japanese) or call (052) 324-6142.


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