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The Senate passed the conference report with a 91-7 vote of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA) Thursday, May 22. Several agricultural groups issued statements in support of the legislation's passage. The bill awaits President Obama's signature.
The American Soybean Association welcomed the passage of WRRDA. The report, which passed the House overwhelmingly earlier in the week, contains several of ASA's key policy priorities.
"The Senate's passage of the WRRDA conference report represents another important step toward improving and creating a more workable framework for increased investment in our waterways infrastructure. Soybean growers need a reliable and efficient waterways system to get our product to market and meet a growing global demand," said ASA President and Iowa farmer Ray Gaesser. "Our waterways system helps take our soybeans from major growing regions to domestic processors and major exporting terminals, then on to valuable trading partners around the world, and is a big part of why soybeans lead the nation in agricultural exports. For too long we have ignored our infrastructure and this WRRDA is a strong step in the right direction."
Included in the conference report are ASA-supported provisions that will free up significant funding within the Inland Waterways Trust Fund for additional waterways infrastructure projects; increase the level of Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund dollars that will be spent on port maintenance and dredging; streamline the Army Corps of Engineers' project review process; increase Corps flexibility to maintain navigation during low water events; and promote the use of alternative financing and public-private partnerships to fund waterways infrastructure.
"Soybean farmers appreciate the work of Chairwoman Boxer and Ranking Member Vitter in helping to craft and pass legislation that will give our waterways infrastructure network the attention it needs," added Gaesser. "We will continue to work with Congress and the Administration to implement the changes and improvements made in the WRRDA and seek the additional funding that will be needed to upgrade our infrastructure."
Bob Stallman, president, American Farm Bureau Federation, issued the following statement regarding WRRDA's Senate approval.
"Senate passage of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act puts America's inland waterways and port infrastructure on a solid and sustainable foundation to contribute to U.S. economic growth, jobs and global competitiveness for generations to come.
"The American Farm Bureau Federation and our 6 million member families have long championed an efficient and reliable inland waterway system linked to competitive ports. We're pleased that Congress recognizes that the ports, channels, locks, dams and other infrastructure that support our waterways transportation are vital to America's ability to provide affordable agricultural products at home and abroad.
"We urge President Obama to swiftly sign this important bill into law."
Other organizations supportive of the Senate's passage of WRRDA is the National Wheat Growers Association and the National Corn Growers Association.
"NAWG is pleased with the passage of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014," said NAWG President Paul Penner, a wheat farmer from Hillsboro, Kan., "The near unanimous support the bill received in both the House and Senate signals how vital our inland waterways system is; both to America's wheat farmers, who export nearly half the wheat that is grown domestically, and to our nation's economy as a whole." WRRDA seeks to increase funding for waterway development projects, such as deepening waterways and lock and dam repairs and upgrades. The bill is especially important to America's wheat farmers, who rely onmany inland waterways to ship their wheat to port before being exported abroad."
The National Corn Growers Association specifically thanked the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, notably Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Ranking Member David Vitter (R-Okla.), for bringing this negotiated bill to the floor of the Senate and for working to ensure its passage.
"Today, our representatives in the Senate took a concrete step toward repairing and improving our inland waterways through a vote that again showed overwhelming bipartisan approval for WRRDA," said NCGA President Martin Barbre. "We must improve our infrastructure, and we must do it now. Our locks and dams transport our cargoes today but were built in the 1920s and 1930s to accommodate far smaller loads and far less river traffic. For farmers in particular, it is crucial as more than 60 percent of the nation's grain exports are transported by barge. The need is urgent; U.S. farmers and businesses rely upon this transportation channel to create economic opportunities at home and supply markets abroad."
NCGA also hopes Congress will soon address a proposed increase to the diesel fuel user fee which would provide additional revenue to the Inland Waterways Trust Fund. By increasing this tax between six and nine cents per gallon of fuel, the industries using the waterways would be able to provide needed funds for the improvement and maintenance of the infrastructure on which they rely.
For additional information on the content of the bill, click here.


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INDIANAPOLIS -- Cleveland State guard Adesuwa Aideyman (Reynoldsburg, Ohio) has been named the Horizon League Women's Basketball Player of the Week and Detroit guard Minisha Frederick-Childress (North Mankato, Minn.) has been named Freshman of the Week.
Aideyman earned her first Player of the Week honor of her career after scoring a career-high 23 points to lead Cleveland State to a 100-93 win over Wright State on Saturday. The sophomore guard was 7-of-10 from the field in the contest, including 5-of-6 from three-point range. She recorded three of her five three-pointers in the final 5:39 of the game as the Vikings held off the Raiders.
Aideyman only scored in double-figures in two of the Vikings first 19 games, but has now scored in double-digits in three consecutive games and is averaging 19.0 points per game in the last three contests. She has upped her season scoring average from 6.1 to 8.0 in that time span.
Cleveland State (11-11, 6-3) has won three consecutive games and currently is in a three-way tie with Wright State and Youngstown State for second-place in the conference standings, one-game back of Green Bay. The Vikings host two home games this week, facing Valparaiso on Thursday and Detroit on Saturday.
Frederick-Childress won Freshman of the Week accolades after nearly recording a double-double in Detroit's win over Milwaukee on Saturday. The freshman guard scored 10 points and grabbed a career-high nine rebounds. She added four assists against just one turnover in 33 minutes of action.
The Titans are on the road this week, playing at Oakland on Thursday and at Cleveland State on Saturday.
Top Performers for the Week:
Ruvanna Campbell, UIC (So., F) - Campbell scored 23 points and pulled down 13 rebounds in UIC's win over Oakland on Tuesday. She added 22 points and 13 rebounds in UIC's game versus Green Bay on Saturday. She has now had five consecutive double-double performances this season.
Ivory James, Wright State (Sr., G) - James scored 21 points on 8-of-16 shooting in WSU's win over Youngstown State on Wednesday. On Saturday, she recorded a double-double, scoring 32 points on 11-of-16 shooting and pulling down 11 rebounds at Cleveland State.
Lexi Miller, Valparaiso (So., G) - Miller led the Crusaders in scoring with 13 points off the bench. She was 5-of-6 from the field, including 2-of-2 from three-point range.
Breannah Ranger, Green Bay (Sr., F) - Ranger scored a team-high 16 points in GB's win over Valparaiso last Monday. She shot 7-of-13 from the field in the contest. She scored 13 points in the Phoenix win over UIC on Saturday.
Angela Rodriguez, Milwaukee (Sr., G) - Rodriguez averaged 18.5 points and 5.5 rebounds per game for the Panthers last week. She made all five of her free throw attempts last week and has now made 44 free throws in a row.
Heidi Schlegel, Youngstown State (Jr., F) - Schlegel had two double-doubles for the Penguins last week. She had 16 points and 11 rebounds in YSU's game at Wright State on Wednesday. She posted game-highs of 28 points and 13 rebounds on Saturday at Oakland.
Senee Shearer, Detroit (Sr., G) - Shearer scored a game-high 21 points, her 15th 20-plus performance of the season, in UDM's 8-68 win over Milwaukee on Saturday. She nailed three three-pointers in the contest and helped seal the win by hitting 10-of-12 free throws.
Bethany Watterworth, Oakland (Sr., F) - Watterworth averaged 19.0 points and 6.0 rebounds per game last week for Oakland as they won two of their three games. She scored 22 points in Oakland's win over Milwaukee. She was 22-of-27 (81.5%) from the foul line.
Top Freshman for the Week:
Nola Anderson, Oakland (Fr., G) - Anderson scored 10 points in Oakland's win over Milwaukee on Thursday. It was her third double-digit scoring performance of the season.
Mehryn Kraker, Milwaukee (Fr., F) - Kraker tied her career-bests with three assists and two blocks in GB's win over Valparaiso. She scored 18 points on 7-of-10 shooting from the field in GB's win at UIC on Saturday. In the two games, she shot a combined 10-of-15 from the field.
Khayla Livingston, Cleveland State (Fr., G) - Livingston scored nine points on 4-of-6 shooting in just 14 minutes of action Saturday versus Wright State.
Kelsea Newman, Youngstown State (Fr., G) - Newman was 5-of-8 from three-point range and also grabbed five rebounds on Wednesday at Wright State. She connected on two three-pointers at Oakland on Saturday.
Women's Basketball Player of the Week:
Nov. 11: Kim Demmings, Wright State
Nov. 18: Ivory James, Wright State
Nov. 25: Rachel Story, UIC
Dec. 2: Kim Demmings, Wright State
Dec. 9: Sharon Karungi, Valparaiso
Dec. 16: Tay'ler Mingo, Wright State
Dec. 23: Rachel Story, UIC
Dec. 30: Cori Coleman, Cleveland State
Jan. 6: Ruvanna Campbell, UIC
Jan. 13: Imani Gordon, Cleveland State
Jan. 20: Liz Hornberger, Youngstown State
Jan. 27: Kaili Lukan, Green Bay
Feb. 3: Cori Coleman, Cleveland State & Avyanna Young, Milwaukee
Feb. 10: Adesuwa Aideyman, Cleveland State
Women's Basketball Freshman of the Week:
Nov. 11: Mehryn Kraker, Green Bay
Nov. 18: Tesha Buck, Green Bay
Nov. 25: Tesha Buck, Green Bay
Dec. 2: Megan Galloway, Detroit
Dec. 9: Khayla Livingston, Cleveland State
Dec. 16: Tesha Buck, Green Bay
Dec. 23: Jenna Hirsch, Youngstown State
Dec. 30: Kelsea Newman, Youngstown State
Jan. 6: Bre'Zall Warren, Milwaukee
Jan. 13: Sydney Snower, Milwaukee
Jan. 20: Jenna Hirsch, Youngstown State
Jan. 27: Nola Anderson, Oakland
Feb. 3: Mehryn Kraker, Green Bay
Feb. 10: Minisha Frederick-Childress, Detroit

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text: Marc Jacobs has just dropped these sneakers under that very title. Clearly, the "Sneaker" is designed to be a future staple and fuses traditional elements from both modern shoes and classic sneakers making for a clean, post-modern look. The shoe features a block white sole with a smooth upper in your choice of either black or white. Subtly indented on both the toe and side panel, the Sneaker makes comment on the toe details and branding that has shaped the modern footwear industry. The Marc Jacobs Sneaker is now available from zozo.


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My favourite types of bases are the barely-there 'I woke up like 'dis' ones. And no I'm not retiring my Beyoncé leant phrase anytime soon as it just sums up my attitude to make up perfectly. I'm currently sat on the floor with all of my light coverage foundations/tinted moisturisers/BB's/CC's surrounding me and I thought why not cobble them together in one gigantic fresh skinned edit. I haven't discriminated between the categories of base here at all; if it's more on the light side of things and makes my skin look nice and even, well slept and glowy then it's in. I've given them a score out of 10 for all-roundedness, but don't take too much notice – I just thought I'd bolt that on the end just so you can distinguish which ones I really love…
Bourjois Happy Light Foundation – £11.99 from Boots – I use No.50. This is one of the few light coverage foundations I own. It can definitely be built up to more of a medium finish, but gives just the right amount of coverage for daytime and isn't too matte nor dewy in finish. My score: 8/10.
CHANEL Vitalumiere Aqua Skin Perfecting Makeup – £32 from Selfridges – I use B10 for winter and B20 for summer. I love this stuff. If I had to pick a base to wear everyday for the rest of my life, I reckon this would be it. It just melts in the face and literally looks just like skin. My score: 10/10.
Chantecaille Just Skin Tinted Moisturiser – £58 from Space NK – I use Nude for winter and Glow for summer. If you're after polished skin that's on the sheeny side of things then this is your guy. It has the coverage of a medium foundation with the glow of a BB. Nice. My score: 9/10.
Dior Diorskin Airflash Spray Foundation – £33 from FeelUnique – I use 100. This is probably the lightest textured base I own, so if you don't really count yourself as the foundation type then this is one to try. It definitely fits into the lighter finish category, but leaves things looking über natural. My score: 8/10.
Dior Diorskin Nude BB Creme – £30 from Escentual – I use 002 (but could do with 001 for winter). In terms of BB's this is my favourite one I've tried, probably because it's got decent coverage and is slightly more matte in finish which I don't tend to gravitate towards, but it means that the longevity is a step up from others. My score: 9/10.
Jouer Luminizing Moisture Tint – £29 from Cult Beauty – I use Pearl. If you want glow, then girl here it is. When swatched there looks to be a terrifying amount of shimmer in this, but when applied directly to the face it just comes off as skin that is seriously hydrated. My score: 8/10.
Jouer Matte Moisture Tint – £29 from Cult Beauty – I use Linen. It's tough to find a light coverage, matte base, but this is the best I've tried. Not chalky or heavy it coats the skin with a light dose of shine-free tint. Personally my favourite way to wear this is with the blob of the aforementioned in with it. My score: 8/10.
Kevyn Aucoin Sensual Skin Tinted Balm – £38 from Space NK – I use SB02 for winter and SB03 for summer. This was one of the first light coverage based I tried and I loved it at the time, but compared to my more recent discoveries it just doesn't quite compare. A little heavy and difficult to blend, though the finish is spot-on glow-wise. My score: 5/10.
Laura Mercier Oil-Free Tinted Moisturiser – £33.50 from Space NK – I use Bisque. In terms of formulas billed as tinted moisturisers this is my all-time favourite. It's pretty thick, but that means that it brings the coverage and the finish is just perfection and looks sheeny without the grease. My score: 9/10.
NARS Pure Radiant Tinted Moisturiser – £29 from Space NK – I use Alaska. I'd say that this is a good one for more drier skinned gals. It feels the most 'moisturiser' of all the tinted moisturisers I've tried with the finish being very nourishing with a light dose of colour. My score: 7/10.
Resultime by Collin Multi-Corrective CC Cream – £35.50 from Cult Beauty – I use Natural. A recent discovery that when I first applied I let out an audible 'wow'. Everything just looked almost airbrushed, but so natural. With good lasting power too it's the best CC I've tried. My score: 9/10.


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The Day Ahead: A Market of Fairytales
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Food Lion has some good deals this week including grapes for 99 cents per lb, green peppers for 50 cents each, chicken leg quarters for .49/lb and more! These deals are valid 2/15 – 2/21.
Food Lion Coupon Basics
Food Lion does not double coupons
They have no limits on number of coupons they will take, unless specified in the ad
BOGO items ring up at half price so if you only buy 1, it rings at half price. You can use a coupon on each BOGO sale item.
E-Coupons: You can now load RedPlum.com manufacturer's coupons to your Food Lion MVP card and when they scan your card at the register and you buy the qualifying items, the discount will come off automatically. I spoke with corporate and they confirmed that these are manufacturer's coupons and not to be combined with hard copy manufacturer's from the newspaper and other sources. She said their policy is only coupon per product. No e-coupons will double. Click HERE for more information.
Easter Seals Promotion 2/15 – 3/13: Donate $1 at checkout and get $9.50 in coupons. The ad does not specify what type of coupons we will receive for the donation so if you head to the store, please let us know if they are store or manufacturer coupons and what they are for. I'll try to get by there today to check them out (and pick up some .99/lb grapes!).
Green bell peppers 2 for $1 – good price
Red grapefruit .69 each
Green grapes .99/lb – a good price
Dole or Fresh Express garden salad , 12 oz., .99
Peeled baby carrots 1 lb bag, $1.00
Zucchini or Yellow squash $1.29/lb
Red Delicious or Gold Apples, 3 lb bag $2.50
Red potatoes, 5 lb bag, $2.99
Fresh chicken leg quarters, 10 lb bag, .49/lb – a good deal
Chuck roast $2.59/lb
Center cut pork chops $2.59/lb
Food Lion frozen shrimp, 16 oz, raw or cooked BOGO
Food Lion Fresh Deli Beef Bologna $3.99/lb at deli
Dairy & Frozen
Dannon Light & Fit yogurt $1.99- .40 coupon from 1/29 SS = $1.59
Yoplait Gogurt $2.00 - .75/2 coupon from 2/5 and 1/8 inserts
Pillsbury read to bake cookie dough $2.00 - $1/2 coupon on Pillsbury.com, $1/3 coupon from 1/8, 12/11. 12/4 inserts
Alexia fries $3 - $1 printable coupon when you Like them on Facebook Click HERE
Breyers ice cream BOGO
Tyson frozen chicken family pack $4.00 - .75/1 chicken nuggets coupon from 2/12 SS = $3.00
7UP, A&W, Canada Dry sodas 2 ltr $1.00
My Essentials pasta sauce $1.00 (my buy price for pasta sauce is $1 or less)
Campbell's chunky soup $1.50 - $1.2 coupon from in-store kiosk. There is also a .50/2 coupon from 1/8 SS. Some Food Lion stores will let you use both the kiosk coupon and a manufactuer's coupon, some will not. If yours will, the total is .75 each after both store and manufacturer's coupons. If they won't let you combine them, the total after $1/2 kiosk coupon = $1 each.
Knorr pasta and rice sides $1.00 - .50/2 coupon from 1/29 RP = .75 each (.50 at Harris Teeter)
Ruffles potato chips BOGO
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As the cathedral fares, so fares Chch itself
If Queen Elizabeth, inspired by her financial advisers, decided to demolish St Paul's Cathedral, England would be horrified.
No one would care that, as Head of the Anglican Church and Tenant-in-Chief of all England, the Queen could use such ecclesiastical property as she pleased. St Paul's Cathedral, they would say, does not belong to the House of Windsor, it belongs to the people of England.
Some would go further, insisting that such a beautiful artefact of the past belongs to all humanity.
And if the Queen persisted? If the protests of her subjects (not to mention those of her eldest son!) and appeals from lovers of neo- classical architecture all around the world were insufficient to make the Queen abandon her plans? Well then, I suspect the British Parliament would intervene on their behalf.
If St Paul's could defy Hitler's bombers, I'm pretty sure it could defy Her Majesty.
There are some buildings whose power and dignity simply scorn the ravages of man and nature. Which is why, even if Hitler's bombers had found their target and the mighty dome of Sir Christopher Wren's masterpiece no longer towered over the streets of England's capital, I strongly suspect that Londoners, like the citizens of Dresden, would have rebuilt their beloved cathedral stone by stone - no matter how long it took, no matter how much it cost.
What does that say about us? Why aren't more New Zealanders willing to join with the thousands of Cantabrians who marched on Saturday to save Christ Church Cathedral? Why isn't the Opposition calling for the Government to step in and "nationalise" this New Zealand icon?
What's wrong with Prime Minister John Key and his Cabinet that they have not already - unbidden - promised Christchurch, and the country, that no matter how long it takes, no matter how much it costs, their beloved cathedral will be rebuilt?
Is it simply because the men who somehow ended up in charge of rebuilding Christchurch have turned out to be too oafishly "pragmatic" to even consider the restoration of the city's historic precincts?
Is it because they share Henry Ford's conviction that "history is bunk"? Believing that no right- thinking person could, for a single second, entertain the expensive fiction that the preservation of a precious civic icon - such as the cathedral - was anybody's business but its owners?
Or should we look elsewhere for answers? Does the fault lie not in our political stars but in ourselves?
The men and women who in the second half of the 19th century erected New Zealand's greatest buildings were persons of extraordinary confidence and vision. They were part of what New Zealand historian Professor James Belich calls "the settler revolution and the rise of the Anglo-world".
In just a few decades, from Chicago, Illinois to Melbourne, Victoria, their cultural and commercial certainty had summoned forth huge cities, replete with stunning architectural tributes to all the ages of Western Civilisation - from the Roman Republic to Byzantium; from Gothic spires to Baroque rotundas.
Citizens who walked on streets that were barely as old as they were looked up at buildings that might have stood for centuries.
These towering manifestoes in stone declared proudly to posterity that their makers, the children of empire, had come to stay.
Is that what now eats away at the decision-making of the New Zealand Anglican Church? In its new, bicultural guise does it recoil in dismay from the thought of pouring both its reputation and its treasure into such an unequivocally imperial statement?
Is that why the cathedral's temporary replacement (cardboard being a so much humbler building material than stone) looks so much like a wharenui? Is the archbishop, mindful of her own homeland's problematic relationship with the indigenous, unwilling to rush back in where white marble angels were once so unafraid to tread?
This discomfort with history is not, I suspect, limited to the Anglican Church.
The spirit of globalisation also has scant patience with the past. Reading the historical record as an unending sequence of economic errors, it will as easily press "Delete" on imperial preferences, protectionist tariffs and five-year plans as on the architectural follies in which they were conceived. Glass and steel, not slate and stone, are the signature materials of neoliberalism's brave new world. If the past features at all, it is only as pastiche.
On that terrible February day, when I switched on the television to scenes of blood and horror, it was the sight of the ruined cathedral that unlocked my emotional floodgates. There, in a heap of rubble, lay the symbol of the city.
The decision not to rebuild Christchurch's iconic cathedral makes a profound statement about the entire city's future. Those shattered stones are more than fallen masonry; they represent everything else that the earthquakes destroyed.
As the cathedral fares, so fares Christchurch itself.
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STEP OFF: Mutually Assigned Dances (Surprisingly) Don't Equal Mutually Assured Dance-truction
Tonight's decision of inviting Paula Abdul to guest judge on the same panel as Carrie Ann Inaba, an act known as turning the entire cock-a-doodie universe on its head, can only be described as either the most ingenious or most cruel thing broadcast television has ever done to an audience. I mean, those women, as shrill and confusing as they are, make for great TV.
Announced last week, the contestants of DANCING WITH THE STARS: ALL-STARS were left to the mercy of their quick-stepping peers; the teams each chose the style of dance another would perform for tonight's episode. And it mostly turned out pretty well. Surprisingly.
Here's a breakdown of the leader board:
Kirstie Alley and Maksim Chmerkovskiy: Charleston, 30/40
Bristol Palin and Mark Ballas: Rock & Roll, 32/40
Sabrina Bryan and Louis Van Amstel: Disco, 35.5/40
Emmitt Smith and Cheryl Burke: Bolero, 36/40
Gilles Marini and Peta Murgatroyd: Bollywood, 39.5/40
Melissa Rycroft and Tony Dovolani: Jitterbug, 37/40
Shawn Johnson and Derek Hough: Mambo, 39.5/40
Apolo Anton Ohno and Karina Smirnoff: Hip Hop, 34/40
Kelly Monaco and Val Chmerkovskiy: Contemporary, 37.5/40
After tonight's round of performances, Shawn Johnson and Gilles Marini, with near perfect scores of 39.5, are tied for the top spot. Which mainly causes a universal reaction of…who's Gilles, again? Anyway. They're clearly the ones to watch, and the ones we love to. Abdul, on Johnson's routine, said, "You were elegant, you were perfect. The choreography was outstanding and it was my most favorite dance of the evening!"
Alley and Palin are once again on the lowest rungs of ladder, and after Alley's close call last week with being eliminated, it shouldn't come as a surprise if we see find her there again tomorrow. On Alley's dance, Bruno commented, "Oh my darling you are a mad women and I love you. You started out like Debbie Reynolds and ended up looking like Shelly Winters!" And I love Alley, too. Even back in her VERONICA'S CLOSET days. Here's to hoping she stays.
But the sheer "Yeesh" of tonight's pairing of Abdul/Inaba can only be outdone by one other potential shock to pop culture's nervous system: that Bristol Palin would finally get the blast off of our TV screens.
And based off of your comments last week (and her womp-womp performance tonight) that seems to be the general consensus: people wish Palin would go back to riding snowmobiles and staring at Russia from her 10-foot hunting platform in her backyard while her toddler yells obscenities (remember that?) at passing woodland animals.
I mean, let's face it: Palin is not the best o' the best when it comes to DANCING or acting like a mature, responsible partner to Mark Ballas. I.e., don't storm off in the middle of rehearsals like a banshee out of middle school hell, Bristol. And yet, some fan base out there has kept her around, much to the majority's disdain.
BroadwayWorld will bring you the elimination recap tomorrow. Be sure to check back to see if the town yokel managed to survive the cultural stoning, once again!
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Police are becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of a missing 76-year-old man from King's Lynn.
Cecil Raymond Dobson, known as Ray, was last seen at about 5.30pm yesterday (Wednesday 18 June), getting off a coach at Tesco in Gaywood. It is believed he went into the supermarket to use the toilet.
Mr Dobson, who is considered vulnerable, is described as white, 5ft 2ins, of thin build and clean shaven. When last seen he was wearing a navy baseball cap, cream jacket, cream shirt, beige sweater, brown trousers and brown shoes. He is also believed to be wearing black woolley gloves.
Officers would like to hear from anyone who may have seen Mr Dobson or has information concerning his whereabouts.
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Fast Food in Schools
Our public schools are home to some of the most insidious fast food advertising. In Seminole County, Florida, kids were sent home with report cards in Ronald McDonald envelopes, with promises of free Happy Meals for kids with good grades.[1] Thanks to the Center for a Commercial Free Childhood and concerned parents, that particular effort was put to a stop. Unfortunately, fast food and fast food marketing continues to be abundant in and around our children's schools.
An estimated 20 percent of public schools sell branded fast food, mostly in high schools, where kids have more discretion to buy "a la carte," rather than from the regular lunch program.[2] But it's not just direct sales. In sports, it's corporate team sponsorships, advertising on score boards, and sponsorship of physical education curricula, like McDonald's "Passport to Play," widely used in public schools.[3][4] Marketing masquerades as educational programs, like Pizza Hut's "Book It" program, where children are rewarded for reading with Pizza Hut pizza and promotional items.[5]
If a school doesn't sell fast food, there's probably a location very nearby. One study found that nearly 80% of Chicago schools had at least one fast food restaurant within a half-mile.[6] That's because fast food restaurants consider sites near schools prime real estate. It's the perfect way for a child to stop off for an Egg McMuffin on the way to school, or a burger on the way home, or even lunch if they're allowed to purchase lunch off-campus.
1. Press Release "Ronald McDonald Report Card Ads Expelled from Seminole County
CCFC Campaign Ends Controversial In-School Marketing Program" Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, http://commercialfreechildhood.org/pressreleases/ronaldmcdonald.htm (accessed February 20, 2009).
2. American School Health Association, "School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS) 2006," Journal of School Health 77:8 (October, 2007), http://www.ashaweb.org/files/public/JOSH_1007/JOSH_77_8_o_toole_p_500.pdf.
3. Alex J. Molnar, et al., "A National Survey of the Types and Extent of the Marketing of Foods of Minimal Value in School," Commercialism in Education Research Unit, Arizona State University (2006).
4. Passport to Play, McDonald's Website. http://mcdepk.com/passporttoplay/index.html (accessed December 8, 2008).
5. Book It! Pizza Hut Website. http://www.bookitprogram.com/ (accessed December 8, 2008).
6. S. Bryn Austin, et al., "Clustering of Fast Food Restaurants Around Schools: A Novel Application of Spatial Statistics to the Study of Food Environments," American Journal of Public Health, 95:9 (September, 2005): 1575-1581.
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The Tap Project is part of World Water Week, and you can find participating restaurants here.
Two big-name chefs who've thrown their culinary weight behind the Tap Project are Marcus Samuelsson and Tom Colicchio.
Says Samuelsson: "Water is a daily privilege that so many of us take for granted. But children are dying every day due to a lack of clean water.
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Duffy said that both Linux and Max OS X versions of Doom III are moving in close development with the PC version and Hollenshead said that they will have Mac and Linux files available for download when Doom III is released for the PC for people who run those operating systems. An actual Mac retail box for Doom III is a possibility but a Linux retail release is unlikely.
An audience question about having random monsters in Doom III's multiplayer maps made Willits ask if the audience would like to see that feature put in. That drew a loud and positive response which made the id team say that the possibility for that feature just got a lot more likely.
Although this feature could certainly have some kind of novelty appeal, I hope there is the option to turn it off. The 4 player limit that id have imposed on Doom III indicates that multiplayer maps will be rel
"will be basically the complete experience that PC gamers will get."
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Q. Yesterday Doc Rivers referred to Kobe as, A, the most criticized star, and B, the scariest to play against. Can you describe ?? from your viewpoint, those two perspectives?
DEREK FISHER: Okay, what was the first one?
Q. Most criticized.
DEREK FISHER: I mean, you know, he's received, I guess, obviously his fair share of critiques and criticisms over his career, and I think at times he's received a great deal of respect for what he's been able to accomplish in his career.
You know, I do think that most players and I think most coaches would agree that he's the most talented individual, the most well?rounded, complete basketball player on the earth today probably. So I think that's probably what Doc refers to in terms of him being the scariest to play against is there are very few guys I think in our game today that could probably explode for a 30?point quarter or do something that uncommon compared to other guys in the league.
Q. Today a practice did you sense any of the shock or stagnation that might have been present yesterday when everybody showed up?
DEREK FISHER: No, just the typical not having much physical activity yesterday, just kind of waking the body up again, getting the legs going, getting the energy up. I think that was the tougher part for us today.
But in terms of everyone's mentality, you know, I think guys are really just focused on the task at hand. I think it was maybe a little quieter than normal, but in my opinion it wasn't or isn't a bad thing. I think that guys were already getting themselves prepared for where they need to be mentally going into tomorrow.
Q. You're a veteran this week. Do you think there can be a psychological turnaround tomorrow?
DEREK FISHER: Yeah, I mean, I think in terms of turnaround, meaning from where we were ?? or after losing the game how you feel psychologically, well, yeah. A loss is a loss, and there are certain ways that you lose games and certain things you do to contribute to losing a game as well as winning a game. But in a playoff situation and in particular in The Finals, you know, you don't get to this point without being able to then move past what you've already accomplished, and we let that game get away from us and the Celtics were able to take advantage of it, and they won the game. They beat us.
But the reality is that we're still in the NBA Finals and we still have a great deal of control over what happens next. As far as I'm concerned, I like those odds. I would rather have the ability to have a say?so in what my future is as opposed to someone else controlling it, and I think we still have a great opportunity.
Q. What surprised you most in these first four games? Is it just that you guys haven't really been able to push the tempo and really get the Celtics in a running game, or is it that the Celtics have really controlled the tempo throughout the first four games?
DEREK FISHER: Surprising? I mean, obviously I'm surprised we're down 3?1. But in terms of the game itself, I'm not surprised that much. I mean, I think when you look at the ebbs and flows and the ups and downs of all four games, that's pretty typical of high level playoff basketball, like you very rarely see teams get dominated from tip to finish, and you already know who's going to win the game in the first quarter, in the second quarter. Those things very rarely happen at this time of the season. So I'm not surprised by the ups an downs and the turnarounds in scoring and those kinds of things.
I think for me it's confirmed how small the margin is, or that line between winning and losing, which is cliché and a lot of people talk about it. But I think this series is a perfect example of how fine that line is between being the champion and not being the champion, and you know, as a young team and as a team that wants to be champions now as well as going forward, you know, we have to continue to raise our understanding of how every possession offensively and defensively, every loose ball, a lot of those little things, how important they are.
Q. Players when they reach these sort of situations where you have to win three straight games for a championship always seem to draw upon positives to bring them to a mental place where they have that mindset that they can do it. What are you drawing upon as something to help you maybe get to that place?
DEREK FISHER: You know, just the fact that in the playoffs you can only play one game at a time, you know, which is so different from the regular season where you might play Thursday, Friday, Sunday and not really have the opportunity to leave everything out on the floor and then recover and then get ready to do it again a couple days later, which is what the playoffs often times present for you.
Sometimes it's difficult to stay right here as opposed to looking back or looking ahead, and at times it takes going through it to know how. But that's what I'm drawing upon is that all that we can control right now is the outcome of tomorrow's game.
Q. Is there a previous series, though, that you can kind of say, wow, we were up against them, wow, we were down 3?2 and we were able to come back and I'm going to keep that in my head?
DEREK FISHER: No, those were different teams at different times. For this particular season, I'm drawing upon the close of the regular season where we had to win out to finish in the top spot in the west. We had to play New Orleans and then we had to play the Spurs within a two?day situation, and how we were able to bring our game up to a level to beat two of the best teams in the west at the time to put ourselves in position to win the final game against the Kings in the regular season.
So in terms of this particular team, I'm looking at that three?game set in terms of how we had to bring it one night and then the next night and then the next night in order to accomplish our goal of finishing No. 1 in the west.
Q. You talked a lot about mentality and suffering that tough loss. What do you think the emotions are going to be when you guys tip it up? Can you play with anger? Do you need to play the same way? What do you think emotionally the team will play with tomorrow night?
DEREK FISHER: You know, I think it'll vary individually for different guys. I think you'll see a lot of what we were able to do Thursday night in terms of executing and understanding much better compared to the first three games what we want to accomplish out on the floor.
You know, I think what will happen, though, is as the game continues to progress and we meet those times in the game where we're challenged, you know, maybe we're ahead by eight or nine and they make a run, how do we respond to it. Maybe they go out and get ahead early; how do we respond to it?
I think those will be the things to watch. I think in terms of our mentality, I think we have several guys that have been in situations before where they've been called upon to do their best, and guys have played high level international basketball, guys that have been in the Final Four, guys that have won championships. So I think we have a combination of guys on this team that understand when you have one game to win, you know, you go out and you have to play in a certain space, and hopefully we can do it tomorrow.
Q. A quick follow. I know you go after loose balls. Do you fully expect everybody else on your team to leave their feet when you're down 3?1 and go after every single ball?
DEREK FISHER: Yeah, I think you'll see guys playing as hard as they've played. I don't know in terms of overall effort that we've lacked. I think there have been times when we've been pushed around a little bit and times where they have beaten us to loose balls but not from lack of desire to be there.
You know, I don't think you'll see just a bunch of crazed guys running all over Staples Center tomorrow in terms of not being able to function in the type of environment it'll be. If you get too high, you know, then you can't play with the fluidity and that calm that you need to be able to shoot shots and be efficient and be able to react on a split second.
Q. This is a two?part question. There must be losses that really do rock your world, and when you guys played San Antonio you did almost the same exact thing to them from almost the same point, midway through the third quarter, and there did seem to be a carryover effect with them. Can you talk about how hard that game must have hit you, at least for the moment? The other part is, not to make you do this again, but since you're the Professional Basketball Writers Association Magic Johnson Award winner, if you could comment on getting that trophy.
DEREK FISHER: First question, you know, I can't speak for what the actually went through in their locker room and what their mentality was. I mean, I know that the first game of the series we were down, we had to fight back. Second game we got it done. So it's hard for me to say how they were able to or not to handle us coming back and winning a game. You know, they've won too many times to let one loss then turn into two or three losses. I just think that we were able to do some things better than they were during that stretch. We were playing at a really, I think, high level.
So obviously the loss hurt us because we know it was an opportunity to bring the series back even and turn it into a three?game series where the teams that win two out of the next three can get it done.
But now having three games in front of us, it just changes the outlook. Even had we won the game, we still would be looking at tomorrow's game as a game that we have to win. So a lot hasn't changed really about tomorrow.
Beyond that I don't think we're thinking much about 6 and 7. I think the only thing we're thinking right now is just win tomorrow's game and continue to give ourselves an opportunity to win a championship and see what happens.
Commenting on receiving the Magic Johnson Award, I mean, anything where I'm compared to him is (laughing) the best award in the world, and that's probably the only place I could ever be compared to him. It's definitely humbling, you know, to think that I've been able to carve out, so to speak, the type of career that I have on the court. But to be able to carry the messages that my parents instilled in me a very long time ago, my mom and dad, about respecting other people, no matter who they are, where they're from, and carrying a certain amount of humility that is required at all times, to be recognized for basically being a human being and not being a supernatural athlete I think is a cool thing, and I'm very appreciative of receiving the award.
Q. What are the biggest changes in Kobe from the first time you were here to now being back? Is he a different teammate, a better teammate?
DEREK FISHER: Wow. Sounds like everybody is getting their what?happens?if?we?lose stories together, huh (laughter)? A lot of Kobe questions.
No, I think that Kobe's ?? his maturity just as a person away from basketball has impacted his play on the court as much as anything. When you see him interact with his two daughters and with his wife and you see the love and the care and the nurturing that he provides to them and for them, I think that's something that he's grown into over the years that has branched itself out into the other areas and relationships in his life.
I think that a lot of times goes for all of us, where our work relationships and our personal relationships kind of start to intertwine. All the experiences we kind of put together to make up who we are. And I don't think it's any different for him. I think he's continued to understand how important it is to ?? even when your little girl makes a mistake or does something she's not supposed to do or something you don't like, you still love her, you still support her, you still talk to her in a certain tone that lets her know that no matter what, you're there for her.
The same goes for teammates. Not compared to children, the relationship is not the same, but in terms of skills and things that you can do in terms of respecting other people and respecting the fact that they have feelings, they have a heart, they have a life outside of yours, that it's important to respect that balance.
I just think that he's gotten older, he's in the 30 club almost now, so he's teetering over the fence where you guys will start talking about how old he is here pretty soon, I just think he has a great understanding of who he is and what it takes to be the best.


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90 grains of powder in a 50 cal pistol
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Didn't look like a pistol to me. Am i missing something?
I usually stick to about 30 grains or less on my sidelock pistol; anything more will just make a bigger flash & smoke in that short barrel. I don't honestly know what the safe max level is & don't want to find out empirically.
sorry i fixed it
that didnt look like 90 to me. my bp rifle with 90 makes a bigger smoke screen. unless most of it is just shooting out the front unburned
90 grains of black powder is excessive for a .50 cal muzzleloader. It is not going to burn in the barrel- it burns outside- after being blown out the muzzle. Rough rule of thumb used to be 1/2 to 3/4 of the bore diameter for a pistol, and 1 to 1.25 the bore for a rifle.
Link to load chart from GOEX- http://goexpowder.com/load-chart.html
Not sure of that rule of thumb...
I'd always learned and taught "always less than the bore in grains of black powder in a pistol." Long guns are tougher.
To put 100 grains in a .75 Bess is fine. Was more than that in battlefield use. The same load could've been used in a .58 3-band or maybe even a .50 cal rifle. For bigger-bore guns I do try to stick to the bore in inches with equal grains of BP and always less than twice the bore as the bore gets smaller (a .45 rifle would always get less than 90 grains for example -- MAYBE up to 85 then) which is a rule that should govern all longuns in any case IMO. Still, the bigger the bore the closer to 1:1 grains of powder to bore in inches, and the smaller the bore the closer to 2:1 grains of powder to the bore in inches.
i chrongraphed mine.......max velocity at 110gr. ffg
You can`t get to much powder in a pistol like that, it will just blow it out & not build up any pressure.
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The Rosenberg Survey team is pleased to announce that results are in for the 2011 MAP Survey. Overall, the survey reveals a trend that many firms are reinvesting in the future. Firms are spending the extra time and money in marketing and business development. In addition, many are considering, or are in the process of, mergers and acquisitions, as partners near retirement age.
Revenue rose 1.7 percent in 2010, a slight improvement from the 1.4 percent increase in 2009. When the impact of mergers is taken out, the growth rate was only 0.8 percent. Though the revenue increase is small, it's noteworthy, because for the first time in two years, the growth rate increased from the prior year instead of decreasing. You might say that the "bleeding has stopped." Revenues were up for firms in all size ranges, though firms with annual fees in excess of $20 million experienced a 4.6 percent higher growth rate than smaller firms.
Profits, as measured by income per partner, averaged $360,000 compared to $354,000 in 2009. Faced with flat growth, firms did a good job of lowering salary expense, which previously had been virtually a fixed cost, and of reducing overhead spending. These tactics enabled firms to enjoy a modest improvement in profits despite the continuance of the recession.
Projections for 2011 show a significant improvement over 2010. Overall, firms are projecting a 3.5 percent growth rate, the highest since 2008.
The percentage of partners over age fifty broke the 60 percent barrier for the first time ever, finishing at 61 percent. This figure has been rising year by year as baby boomers inch closer to retirement age. "Firms continue to grapple with the succession issue", said Charles Hylan, CPA, and member of the Rosenberg Survey team. "They're looking at their younger partners and realizing they don't have the leadership to take the firm into the next generation . . . hence all the acquisitions."
Marketing expenses as a percentage of fees in 2010 ranged from 1.7-2.1 percent, virtually unchanged from 2009. This is inconsistent with the observation from CPA firms and consultants alike, that marketing and practice development are being focused on like never before in an effort to combat the sluggish economy. "We've received a tremendous number of calls from firms needing help with their marketing efforts", said Hylan.
The Rosenberg MAP survey, now in its thirteenth year, reports on the results of 408 firms, most of which range from $2–20 million in annual fees. Nearly one hundred CPA firm metrics are measured.
"We're passionate about our commitment to making our survey the most accurate and authoritative national survey of CPA firm statistics in the profession. Every year, 30-40 percent of the data we receive contains gross errors", said Rosenberg. "Our survey team of three CPAs reviews the data and gets revisions where necessary. We simply will not include data in our survey that doesn't look right."
The Rosenberg Survey was created by Chicago-based Marc Rosenberg, CPA, a nationally known consultant, author, and speaker to the CPA profession. Rosenberg consults primarily on partner compensation and retirement, succession planning, CPA firm mergers, partner retreats, and strategic planning.
The Rosenberg Survey partners with the Growth Partnership, which serves public accounting firms in the areas of practice management, outsourced marketing, and lead generation. Its leadership development division, the Partner Institute, is a partner development program. Teekay LNG Partners employs more than twenty individuals who, collectively, possess well over a century of accounting industry work experience.
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Hi, I use Arch Linux and Midori Browser. I have one Chinese font set installed, wqy-zenhei, but Midori's backend libwebkit renders the Chinese in pages with the 'fixed-misc' set, a xorg default that looks terrible. It also freezes for a couple minutes while rendering any page with Chinese. I've looked at the relavent websites but I can't find any info on how to remedy this. Thanks for any help!
You must disable bitmap fonts!!
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Warner Bros. announced today that the first of the two installments of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" will be released in both standard and IMAX screens, but only in the 2-D format, and will not be seen in 3-D as previously announced.
Due to the lengthy process involved in converting the film from its original 2-D shooting format to 3-D for theatres, it would not be completed in time to meet the scheduled November 10, 2010 release.
However, the second installment of the final chapter in the "Harry Potter" series, set for release on July 15, 2011, will be presented in 3-D as planned.
Warner Bros. released the following statement on Friday:
"Warner Bros. Pictures has made the decision to release 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1' in 2-D, in both conventional and IMAX theaters, as we will not have a completed 3-D version of the film within our release date window. Despite everyone's best efforts, we were unable to convert the film in its entirety and meet the highest standards of quality. We do not want to disappoint fans who have long-anticipated the conclusion of this extraordinary journey, and to that end, we are releasing our film day-and-date on November 19, 2010 as planned. We, in alignment with our filmmakers, believe this is the best course to take in order to ensure that our audiences enjoy the consummate 'Harry Potter' experience."
Producer David Heyman added, "For 10 years, we have worked alongside Alan Horn and the studio, whose priority has always been to preserve the integrity of Jo Rowling's books as we have adapted them to the screen, and this decision reflects that commitment."
Director David Yates continued, "This decision, which we completely support, underscores the fact that Warner Bros. has always put quality first."
"As scheduled, on July 15, 2011, we will deliver to conventional and IMAX theaters our final installment of the film franchise, 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2,' in both 2-D and 3-D formats," the statement concluded.
DC writer and Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns broke the news today at New York Comic-Con that the highly anticipated first trailer for "Green Lantern," starring Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, will make its big screen debut with "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1."
"Green Lantern" will be presented as a 3-D release next year, but since Warner Bros. just announced the first installment of "Deathly Hallows" will not be, it seems unlikely the Emerald Gladiator's trailer will be seen in three dimensions this November. Anticipation for this film is so high, it's unlikely fans will mind.
"I can't tell you a thing about it," Morgan Freeman said about the upcoming follow up to "The Dark Knight."
"Trust me, I don't know anything at all," he continued.
"What I have heard is that they are going to go into production sometime in the spring," Freeman did reveal to Access Hollywood at the junket for his new action film, "Red." "Probably around April. That all presupposes that, number one, Chris (Nolan) finished his script, and that Warner Bros. has signed off on it by then."
When asked if there is pressure to follow up the global box office success of "The Dark Knight," Freeman was realistic regarding that daunting task.
"There is always pressure. Not to top it necessarily. But at least to equal it," he said.
"Why do it?" he then questioned if the film didn't set out to meet such goals.
But Freeman has full faith in director Christopher Nolan in making a memorable and fitting final chapter in his Batman trilogy. "My thinking, Chris being Chris, he's just gonna give it his best go and let the chips fall where they may. And hopefully there will be a lot of chips falling like they were before."
"We've got a really fantastic script," Karl Urban revealed to Access Hollywood about the "Judge Dredd" reboot of the 1995 film starring Sylvester Stallone and based on the popular comic book character. "We are about six weak away from shooting it."
Urban, a fan favorite from his role in "The Lord of the Rings" films and his winning turn as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in last year's "Star Trek," was quick to point out how this film and his portrayal of the Judge Dredd will differ from the first one, which wasn't exactly met with universal praise and reviews.
"It's gonna be hardcore, gritty, and more faithful to the original source material," he promised.
Another major difference in this version, the audience will not see the man under the helmet. "The character in the comic book never took his helmet off, and I don't plan to deviate," he said.


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Rochford District Council has agreed a 1.89 per cent increase for their part of the Council Tax for the financial year 2014/2015.
This will take Council Tax paid to the District Council for an average band D property to £208.98 from £205.11 last year. This equates to a rise of less than seven and ½ pence per week for a band D property.
The parish and town councils average council tax is £39.78, an increase of 1.6 per cent compared to 2013/14.
However, the Police and Crime Commissioner for Essex has not yet agreed his precept, which is set to be confirmed at a further meeting of the Police and Crime Panel to be held later this month.
This means that it is not yet possible to calculate the total average Council Tax bill for a band D property in the Rochford District.
Of the total Council Tax bill, only 14 per cent goes to Rochford District Council with the rest going to Essex County Council (70 per cent), Essex Fire and Rescue (four per cent), the Police and Crime Commissioner for Essex (nine per cent) and the Parish and Town Councils (three per cent).
Rochford District Council needs to reduce spending by £0.9m this year. This follows on from the £500,000 the council was asked to find last year and £900,000 the year before.
Leader of Rochford District Council, Terry Cutmore, said: "We understand that many residents across the Rochford district are feeling the squeeze financially, and as such we have thought long and hard before increasing our part of the Council Tax by this small amount.
"Before taking this tough decision, a public consultation was carried out with residents to seek their views. The results showed 49 per cent of respondents would be happy to see an increase in Council Tax if it avoided further reductions in services, 34 per cent did not agree and 16 per cent had no view or did not answer the questions.
"Therefore, in light of cuts from central Government, we have made this difficult decision so that we can continue to provide the high level of service that residents have come to expect."
Rochford District Council has decided to waive the Council Tax for residents whose homes have been left uninhabitable due to flooding.
The move applies to 34 properties in Rayleigh, Hockley, Hawkwell and Rochford which were flooded in August 2013, forcing residents to temporarily move out while their homes undergo repair work.
Due to impending changes to the Council Tax discount scheme from 1 April, residents of the flooded properties would have seen their discount reduced to 50%. This decision will now ensure that a 100 per cent Council Tax discount can continue for up to 12 months from when they moved out of their properties.
Rochford District Council's Portfolio Holder for Council Tax Collection, Benefits and Strategic Housing Functions, Malcolm Maddocks, said: "I am glad that we can offer this Council Tax discount to take some of the pressure off those people whose homes were flooded last August."


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Veteran actress Sadhana walks the ramp with Ranbir Kapoor
In a rare appearance veteran actress Sadhana, who has been away from the public eye for a while now, took to the ramp on Sunday (May 11) for a fashion show by designers Shaina NC and Vikram Phadnis to support the cause of cancer and AIDS patients.
The 72-year-old actress was escorted by Bollywood heartthrob Ranbir Kapoor in what's said to be her first experince on the ramp. (IE Photo: Ganesh Shirsekar)
Sadhana, who is remembered for her roles in 'Mera Saaya', 'Waqt' , 'Arzoo' and 'Ek Phool Do Mali' to name a few, does a small jig on stage as Ranbir Kapoor claps. (IE Photo: Ganesh Shirsekar)
Sadhana, who is the aunt to actresses Karishma and Kareena Kapoor, rose to fame with 1960's romantic film 'Love in Simla'. She fell in love with the film's director, R. K. Nayyar and finally after much opposition from her family married him on 7 March 1966.
Sadhana greets the audience as she poses for pictures on the ramp. (Photo:Varinder Chawla)
Sadhana was credited for making the fringe hairstyle, a look that she sported in 'Love in Simla' and many movies to follow, a trend in the country. After her retirement, the actress chose to stay away from the limelight, as she wanted her audience to remember what she looked like in her younger days. (Photo:Varinder Chawla)
Sadhana walks the ramp with Ranbir Kapoor, designer Shaina NC and actress Aditi Rao Hydari. (Photo:Varinder Chawla)
Looks like Sadhana is enjoying coming back in the limelight. (IE Photo: Ganesh Shirsekar)
Ranbir Kapoor looked dashing in formal attire as he walked down the ramp with a bouquet in hand. (Photo:Varinder Chawla)
Ranbir Kapoor, who will be seen in Anurag Kashyap's 'Bombay Velvet', says a few words at the event. (Photo:Varinder Chawla)
Remember her? Ghazal singer Penaaz Masani was delighted on the ramp. (Photo:Varinder Chawla)
Winner of 'Bigg Boss 7', Gauahar Khan first paraded in a red and gold sari. She later returned to the ramp in a gorgeous gold lehenga. (Photo:Varinder Chawla)
Actress Neetu Chandra does full justice to the gorgeous garment as she walks down the ramp. (Photo:Varinder Chawla)
Newly-turned-director, Divya Khosla Kumar showcased two dazzling creations on the ramp. (Photo:Varinder Chawla)
Golden acts! Actors Rohit Roy, Yuvika Choudhary and 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge' host Perizaad Kolah glittered in dull gold creations. (Photo:Varinder Chawla)
Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi and actress Vidya Malvade were all smiles. Actress Yuvika Chaudhary, Sucheta Sharma also looked beautiful. (Photo: Varinder Chawla)
Neil Nitin Mukesh, who has been missing from the big screen for sometime now, looked handsome in a black sherwani with gold work. (Photo:Varinder Chawla)
Leading lady of television, Sakshi Tanwar was all decked up in a red, green and gold sari. (Photo:Varinder Chawla)
Sari divas - 'Uttaran' actress Rashmi Desai and former actress Sheeba.
Sheeba looked lovely in a pale blue sari with a metallic border. (Photo: Varinder Chawla)
In twos! 'Mickey Virus' actor Manish Paul looked like a pure natural. (Photo:Varinder Chawla)
Director Madhur Bhandarkar looked suave as he showcased a sherwani. (Photo:Varinder Chawla)
Designer Vikram Phadnis enjoys an applause while Vivek and Neil Nitin Mukesh along with the rest of the celebrities also join in. (Photo:Varinder Chawla)
Celebrity chef Amrita Raichand and actress Nikunj Malik flaunted their beautiful pink lehengas. (Photo:Varinder Chawla)
Veteran actress Poonam Dhillon wore a striking red sari with a metallic gold blouse. (Photo:Varinder Chawla)
Celebrity choreographer Terence Lewis put up an incredible performance. (Photo:Varinder Chawla)
'Purani Jeans' actor Tanuj Virwani and Arzoo Gowitrikar made a beautiful pair in complementing black and red. (Photo:Varinder Chawla)
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Five teenagers are being sought by police after a shop fire in Devon.
Officers said they wished to talk to the 14 to 16-year-olds after a shelf with pet food caught fire in the Wilkinson store in Barnstaple at about 16:20 GMT on Saturday.
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TEI Special Interest Group on Manuscripts (TEI MS SIG)
Agenda of this SIG
- revision of the chapter on critical apparatus
- see working group on Critical Apparatus/ Textual Variance
- revision of the chapter on manuscript description
- see working group on MSS Description
- drafting a chapter (or section) on markup of genetic editions
- see working group on Genetic Editions
- Minutes SIG meeting, Würzburg 14 October 2011
- Minutes SIG meeting, Zadar 12 November 2010
- Minutes SIG meeting, Ann Arbor 14 November 2009
- Agenda SIG meeting, London 8 November 2008
The goal of the TEI Special Interest Group on Manuscripts is to bring together users of the TEI who wish to improve the encoding strategies for marking up transcriptions and editions of manuscript materials.
This SIG will explore a range of issues common to editing manuscripts, including:
- how to handle time based encoding
- how to record place based encoding
- how to encode fragments
- how to record codicology (the substance of the medium, ink stints, etc); Robinson noted that the TEI already has mechanisms to record this, but it needs to be better documented
- issues of substitutions
- issues of variation
- to clarify the role of using the critical apparatus tagset in manuscript transcription (which is dependent on whether one is encoding an edition or encoding a manuscript transcription)
It will do this by:
- running a mailing list on this topic
- assess the TEI and suggest improvements/alterations to the TEI-Council
The SIG is currently convened by Elena Pierazzo who also manages the TEI-MS-SIG List, Amanda Gailey, and Malte Rehbein. It was originally setup by Elena Pierazzo, Susan Schreibman, and Edward Vanhoutte.
The SIG runs a mailing list on this topic. To join visit http://listserv.brown.edu/tei-ms-sig.html
The SIG met at the Third Annual TEI Members' Meeting in Nancy, France on 08 November 2003. The report can be found here.
The second meeting of the SIG was held at the Fourth Annual TEI Members' Meeting at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, 23 October 2004. The report can be found here.
The third meeting of the SIG was held at Seventh Annual TEI Member's Meeting at University of Maryland, College Park, 3nd of November 2007. The agenda of the meeting can be found here; the report can be found here. During the meeting several task forces were created to deal with specific problems: the task forces main page can be found here.
Useful links
Manuscript Description
Projects, resources, guidelines concerning MS description.
- TEI P5: 13. Manuscript Description
- ENRICH project - standardising and aggregating medieval manuscript descriptions. See also OUCS ENRICH Website containing ENRICH Schemas, ODD, Documentation and Training Materials.
- Digital Scriptorium (see especially the DESCRIPTION DTD page).
- MASTER - Interface format for the description of medieval manuscripts
- Reviews of the manuscript description chapter: A summary
Manuscript Transcription
Projects, resources, guidelines concerning MS transcription.
- CDL Encoding Guidelines for Manuscripts and Rare Books
- DALF: Digital Archive of Letters in Flanders
- Digital Scriptorium (see especially the TRANSCRIPTION DTD and DESCRIPTION DTD pages).
- EpiDoc, guidelines for transcribing ancient texts
- Guidelines for the electronic edition of the skaldic corpus
- Partial Transcription of John Lydgate's "Fall of Princes"
- The Chymistry of Isaac Newton
- The Menota handbook
- The Newton Project (see also The Newton Project: Implementing and Exploiting XML).
- The Walt Whitman Archive Encoding Guidelines for Poetry Manuscripts
- Transcriptional Protocols: Piers Plowman Electronic Archive and SEENET
- Chroniques latines de Saint-Denis : critical edition using TEI P4 (but we hope to migrate in P5 this year) : XML Files
- Réflexions sur l'utilisation de la TEI pour encoder les sources diplomatiques and Guide du balisage du Cartulaire blanc : two resources in French
- Base de Français Médiéval - MSS Encoding Guidelines (in French)
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JACKSONVILLE — It was Tony Hill's job to fire up the crowd of 12,000 waiting for Barack Obama and he ended in a fury.
"Hold up your hands. Hold up your hands. Hold up your hands," he shouted last month. "This election is in your hands."
The message from Hill, a black state senator from Jacksonville, was more than cheerleading: The sea of people was largely African-American and the outcome of the presidential election in Florida could literally rest in their hands.
Four years ago, nearly 500,000 registered black voters stayed home, a significant figure considering that President George W. Bush beat John Kerry by 381,000 votes. There were 1.2-million black voters overall in Florida.
What's more, hundreds of thousands of African-Americans were not registered to vote, even though they were eligible. Today, that number stands at 600,000.
Taken together, the potential for Democrats is tremendous and the Obama campaign is aggressively trying to turn the tables.
"It doesn't take much history in Florida to know that a few extra votes can be the difference between winning and losing," said Steve Schale, Obama's campaign director in Florida.
At a rally last Saturday at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Michelle Obama appealed to unregistered black voters.
"You know people in your lives who are not registered, they are not focused, they don't think their votes will count," she said. "Well let me just tell you something, 600,000 votes can make and change the course of not just this election but this country."
During last Saturday's Jacksonville rally, people were asked to take out their cell phones and text "PLEDGE" to a special number. Those who did got an almost instant reply: "Thanks for pledging to early vote for Barack in FL. Someone will contact you soon."
Statewide, Obama workers have been dispatched to beauty shops and have hosted after-church barbecues, like one held Sunday in Tampa.
Prominent black elected officials, like Hill and state Sen. Arthenia Joyner of Tampa, have gone to church services and, while barred from advocating for a particular candidate, have preached the virtues of voting.
Obama's team has also tapped community members to visit with their neighbors, thinking a known face is more persuasive than a campaign worker.
Moreover, high-profile blacks have traveled to the state and made the pitch: Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights pioneer, actor and director Forest Whitaker and the rapper Jay-Z, who performs Sunday and Monday in Miami.
Efforts to energize black voters are under way in other key states, including North Carolina, Virginia and Ohio.
In Florida, several factors accounted for the poor turnout in 2004.
"Most black people felt it was a waste of their time to vote in 2004," said Brenda Bagley, a 42-year-old paralegal who attended the rally in Jacksonville.
She was referring to the contentious election in 2000. No county produced more spoiled ballots than Duval — nearly 27,000 — and they were concentrated in black neighborhoods.
An estimated one in five black votes was tossed out in Duval, three times the rate of white votes.
Mo Hallback, 68, offered another explanation for the poor turnout. "John Kerry. What did Kerry say he was going to do for black people? Nothing."
Lisa Haggerty, who brought her 6-year-old daughter Alexandria to the rally, said Gore and Kerry did not show enough spirit.
"They gave up too easily, especially here in Florida. Obama is giving us some hope that he's going to fight back."
A consistent voter, Haggerty, 40, said she has done her part to motivate friends and family. Before last week's presidential debate, she text messaged them to watch and then vote.
Republican officials in Florida, including Gov. Charlie Crist, have made a concerted effort over the past two years to reach out to black voters, including appearing at NAACP events and creating an African-American Leadership Council, a group of community leaders from across the state.
Crist also championed a rule streamlining the process for restoring civil rights for nonviolent offenders.
But privately, Republicans concede that the black vote will go solidly to Democrats. Republicans are having more success with Hispanics.
Adrianne Marsh, an Obama spokeswoman in Florida, stressed that the black voter outreach is part of an overall effort.
"The switch is ready to be turned on," she said. "We just have to make it happen."
From the start of this year through Sept. 1, 613,680 new voters have been registered in Florida, according to figures Democrats obtained from the Division of Elections.
Of those, 109,361 are African-American, all but 3,820 of them Democrats or independents.
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Yesterday my mom sent me the photo of her in the middle. She was 24 there!
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JERUSALEM (May. 27)
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made clear her views on the Middle East conflict at a press conference here Tuesday morning shortly before ending her three-day visit to Israel.
She endorsed Palestinian demands for "self determination" but not an independent Palestinian state. She maintained that the best approach, "most likely to achieve success," was a federation of the Palestinians with Jordan.
Thatcher was unequivocal in her opposition to terrorists. She indicated that the Palestinians must find an alternative to the Palestine Liberation Organization if the PLO persists in its refusal to accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 and to recognize Israel.
She recalled her own unsuccessful efforts last October to persuade the PLO to accept those two conditions. She had gone so far as to invite to London two prominent PLO leaders, Bishop Elias Khoury and Mohamed Milhem, former Mayor of the West Bank Arab town of Halhoul, for talks with her Foreign Secretary.
The talks failed because the two Palestinians refused to accept the conditions, she said, adding that there would be no more high level meetings between British diplomats and PLO representatives unless the conditions were fulfilled. She stressed that this position stands despite the meeting in Tunisia this week between Dutch Foreign Minister Hans Van Den Broek and PLO chief Yasir Arafat. Van Den Broek is currently chairman of the European Economic Community's (EEC) Council of Ministers. Britain takes over the chairmanship on July 1.
Thatcher affirmed that terrorist threats would never bring her to alter British policies of fighting international terrorism. She referred briefly to "cooperation" between Britain and Israel in the fight against terrorism.


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The Family Hospitality Group, the industry innovator that created the fastest-growing crayon market segment with its patented triangular crayons and that has introduced numerous other popular, kid-friendly activities for leading family restaurants and chains, announces the launch of a game-changing development. The Classy Kids Club is the newest and most effective way yet for restaurants to engage with kids and families.
The Classy Kids Club was built on the proven capability of adult loyalty systems, but specifically tailored to enable kids, for the first time, to earn rewards for themselves and their family. As a technology and service offering that any business can participate in, the new service is a replacement for elementary birthday E: clubs and punch cards, and offers customizable branding for participating restaurants and other businesses. The software allows bonus points to be earned for such things as selecting healthy menu items and demonstrating good behavior while dining out (or in church service, etc.). Points can also be earned for good grades, participating in an activity or event, or trying a new menu item. The points can then be redeemed at the participating restaurant for food purchases or other special gifts. The possibilities are endless, and rewards can be made low- or no-cost, yet still substantially increase the branding as a fun place for families.
There are many loyalty system options for adult customers, and they obviously work, but until now, there hasnt been a service like this, ready for businesses to implement for kids, explains A.J. Mesalic of the Family Hospitality Group. Our system is built specifically so that kids can feel the glow of VIP membership and be rewarded for making good choices. The Classy Kids Club helps any enterprise improve their family-friendly reputation while driving repeat business. Its great for kids, families, and businesses.
With the Classy Kids Club, a familys choices can now be influenced in a relevant and mutually beneficial way. Participating businesses will be clearly recognized as a fun, kid-friendly place, while promoting good choices and instilling a sense of pride and brand affinity among its junior customer base. The results are an immediate and sustained increase in revenue through long-term customer loyalty. An optional adult loyalty system is also available from the company. When used as a single platform, the restaurant can tie together marketing efforts for all age demographics.
The Club is currently only available at select beta test customer sites until full availability in the upcoming months. If your company wants to offer kids membership in your own Classy Kids Club, visit the Family Hospitality Group's website at familyhospitality.com or contact them directly for more information.
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The heart wants what the heart wants, and boa constrictors want the hearts in their prey to stop beating. New research reveals that the snakes stop squeezing when they sense their prey's heart stop. In the study, scientists inserted a tiny, water-filled bulb next to the hearts of dead rats, and pumped water in and out of it to mimic heartbeats. The researchers also warmed the rodents to their living body temperature of 38°C. Then they let the snakes at them. Although wild-caught boas squeezed harder than captive-bred snakes, both stopped constricting shortly after the fake rat heart stopped beating, the team reports online today in Biology Letters. The authors speculated that boas evolved their sensitivity to heartbeats early on, when they went after cold-blooded animals that could survive for hours on little oxygen; just because their prey stopped struggling didn't necessarily mean they were dead. Constriction requires an enormous amount of energy—seven times what the snake spends while resting—so once an animal is deceased, the reptiles can save their strength for eating it.
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WALNUT CREEK -- A motorcyclist killed in a horrific crash along Interstate 680 just north of Danville may have been racing two other vehicles at speeds of 80 to 100 mph before the fatal wreck, police said Monday.
Authorities identified the man as 31-year-old Joseph Botsford of
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which happened at 5:48 p.m. in the northbound direction between the Livorna Road and Rudgear Road exits.
Several witnesses reported Sunday that the motorcycle and another car were driving excessively fast, a claim reiterated by a CHP spokesman on Monday.
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The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Marin will hold its "Spring Fling" auction at 6 p.m. April 19 at the church, 240 Channing Way.
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