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CM Punk quits WWE [VIDEO]: Vince McMahon wooing 'Best in the World' to come back, UFC President Dana White discusses Punk's MMA possibilities
on Feb 24, 2014 09:14 AM EST
CM Punk has not appeared on WWE television since the Royal Rumble pay-per-view on Jan. 26 after he walked out prior to a live Monday Night RAW telecast the following night, but reports indicate that WWE CEO and Chairman Vince McMahon is hoping to get "The Best in the World" back before WrestleMania XXX on April 6 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans.
According to Wrestlingheadlines.com, there is a feeling among those close to Punk and the WWE that McMahon will likely convince Punk to return to the squared circle and ultimately talk him into re-joining the company. Punk, who has been frustrated with his place on the card and sensed that he wouldn't headline this year's WrestleMania, has been mum on why he left and if he plans to return.
Punk's contract was set to expire in July, but he walked out on Jan. 27 due to speculated reasons that are likely connected to his frustration with his standing in the card and his upcoming rumored match with Triple H at WrestleMania XXX.
Punk has been vocally upset about part-timers like The Rock and Batista headlining the biggest show of the year on limited appearance deals while guys like himself and Daniel Bryan work all-year-long and end up in the middle of the card.
McMahon has vowed to get Punk to come back, and with a huge episode of Monday Night RAW emanating from Punk's hometown of Chicago next Monday on March 3, it seems like McMahon will pull out all the stops to bring the superstar back and those close to him reportedly think that the chairman can pull it off.
With Punk having an interest in mixed martial arts, there have been rumors that he may pursue a UFC career following the WWE, but it is merely speculation. Punk isn't free to do whatever he wants until his contract expires in July. UFC President Dana White discussed Punk's interest after Punk sat cageside with him at UFC 170.
White said he doesn't speak with Punk about anything pertaining to a career in UFC.
"He is a friend and a fan," White explained to TMZ. "We have literally never talked about wrestling or fighting or anything else work related since I've known him."
It's unknown if Punk will return, but the WWE is hopeful to bring him back for the Chicago RAW next Monday or at the very least for WrestleMania XXX.
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Just wondering if anyone has any comments on the durability of the of the delux innova bag like this one (that I just purchased)
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I had got the innova starter bag about 2 months ago and I wouldnt reccomend it as mine is already coming apart. I do play about 4 rounds a week but I would guess that for anyone playing enough to want a bag it wouldnt last. I have a friend that only plays about once a week, I will probly just give it (or whats left of it rather) to him.

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Heavy rains once again doused portions of southeast Iowa and northwest Missouri in the past twenty-four hours. This additional runoff will eventually find its way into the Mississippi River and maintain high flows and water levels.
National Hydrologic information
The initial crest had yet to reach St. Louis. More rainfall will bump the crest even higher, but flood control measures should minimize the impact. Navigation of barges on the Mighty Mississippi is likely to remain stymied for a while yet.
Both Minneapolis and St. Paul airports recorded 90 degrees in the late afternoon Wednesday. This was the first 90 of the year and the warmest day since 91 on September 5th.
A rather strong weather system is likely to move through the region on Friday. Daytime temperatures should be in the 70s over the weekend.


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It's Not That I Don't ...It's not that I don't love my fiance. I love him very much. But there are times that I wish I was single just to experience the company of others. I wonder how relationships with other men would go. I think of how other men kiss and make love. I imagine what everything would be like if I were involved with someone else. It's just curiousity.
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You might want to try an online or phone relationship or a girlfreind where you can experiment with all of your own curiosities and desires with out violating the basic premise. If you go back to buisness as normal you have an answer, if you stay but keep your new friends another answer, if it gives you a reason to move on you have yet another choice.


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Men cleared of shooting at Durham chief's car
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Durham, N.C. — Charges have been dropped against two men accused of shooting at an unmarked car driven by Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez last year.
Durham County prosecutors said they didn't have enough evidence to pursue a case against Tony "Big Red" Person, 28, and Lebron "Gutta" Brown, 22.
Lopez was driving near the intersection of South Roxboro and Dillard streets on April 29, 2010, when he got caught in the crossfire between men in two vehicles. One shot went through his windshield, but he wasn't injured.
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OS Mobility Exploredby Jarred Walton on September 21, 2009 6:00 PM EST
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Gateway NV58 (Intel) - Battery Life
We first looked at AMD's mobile platform with several operating systems and now it's Intel's turn. Once again, here's the rundown of specifications followed by the results, starting with battery life.
|Gateway NV5807u Test System
|Intel Core 2 Duo T6500
(Dual-core, 2.1GHz, 2MB shared L2, 45nm, 35W, 800MHz FSB)
|2x2048MB Micron PC2-5300 @ DDR2-667 5-5-5-15
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Driver version 188.8.131.52.1829
10 Shaders at 475 MHz
|15.6" Glossy WXGA (1366x768)
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|HITACHI Travelstar 5K500.B 320GB 5400RPM 8MB (HTS545032B9A300)
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|6-Cell 10.8V, 4400mAhr, 47.5Whr
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|Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
|NV5814u available online starting at $580
If you expected the standings to remain the same regardless of computer hardware, you might be in for a bit of a surprise by the above charts. This time, Windows XP wins in both DVD playback results, providing better battery life using the "Portable" profile than the "Max Battery" profile. Windows 7 also performs slightly better on DVD playback using the Balanced profile, whereas we saw virtually no difference between the power profiles using the NV52.
Why is Balanced beating Power Saver this time? Intel's SpeedStep technology appears to be better than AMD's PowerNow!, though minor differences in drivers may also contribute to the standings. The theory is that letting your CPU run at 100% for a short time and then returning to minimum power draw as fast as possible results in the best battery life, which is why setting the maximum CPU state to 50% isn't always the best idea. Intel CPUs are supposed to switch between C-states faster than AMD CPUs, or so we've heard, and these results seem to support that idea. However, the Internet battery tests again all favor the power saving profiles by a large margin, so power saving profiles can have a positive impact, just not in DVD playback. Ubuntu brings up the rear in both battery life tests once again.
Internet battery life shows different standings on the three Windows operating systems compared to the NV52. Windows 7 is just 2% ahead of XP and 6% ahead of Vista with the power saving profile; switch to the balanced profile and XP jumps into the lead offering 12% more battery life than Windows 7 and 20% more battery life than Vista. Looking at the profiles, Windows XP shows the smallest change by using a power saving profile, improving by 8% when using the Max Battery option. Windows 7 and Vista both improve by around 25% (23% for Windows 7). That means all three Windows OSes did better in Internet battery life with power saving profiles relative to the NV52.
Our testing with Ubuntu once again requires a bit of explanation. First, LCD brightness adjustment did not work properly under Ubuntu (with the drivers we used), with the final setting ending up at 150 nits instead of 100 nits. That means battery life is going to be slightly lower because the LCD is consuming an extra 1-2W. Second, unlike the NV52, we didn't experience any difficulties with DVD playback - hooray! Internet performance using Firefox still feels horribly slow in comparison to Firefox or Internet Explorer on Windows, and while blocking Flash content helps we still prefer Windows.
Enabling FlashBlock with Firefox again has a substantial impact on battery life; Vista improves by 25% - the same as on the NV52 - and Ubuntu improves by 39% - slightly less of an improvement compared to the NV52. The gap between Vista and Ubuntu is still huge, even bigger than on the NV52. Without FlashBlock, Firefox on Vista offers 60% more battery life than Firefox on Ubuntu. Even with FlashBlock, the gap remains at 45%, which is far more than the Power Saver profile offers.
Overall, Windows XP leads in best-case battery life for DVD playback on the Intel platform, providing 3% more battery life than Windows 7 - not a huge difference. The gap between Windows 7 and Vista is much larger, with the best-case Windows 7 result being 18% higher than the Windows Vista scores. Ubuntu almost matches Windows Vista, and it might even match Vista if we could modify the LCD brightness.
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nortexoid - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - linkI'd like to see a test done using "regular" office apps (openoffice, acrobat reader, etc.) and NO internet browsing. (Yes, that's how I use my computer off the plug usually.) It would weed out the performance usage hit taken by Ubuntu when flash is running.
It might also be interesting to do a test with tweaked systems, e.g. by tuning Jaunty with PowerTop or similar apps. How does each OS perform when FULLY optimized for battery life (without sacrificing features or much performance, of course)? Reply
7Enigma - Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - linkI know there are users (Jarred apparently you are one of them) that run a system without antivirus/spyware, but you are (or at least should be) in the minority. Linux distro's apparently can get away without it, but on ANY Windows box it's a MUST HAVE. Also disabling those other services (while good at reducing variables) again undermines the system's protection and comparisons to a general usage scenario.
In your article I do not think you mentioned what you tweaked (but I could have overlooked this). From my initial impression when reading the article you took both OS' as they were default installed and then tested from there. I think you skewed the results badly in the favor of the Windows platforms by doing this, and I say this as a Windows-only user (never used Linux in any flavor). The first thing I do after a fresh install (still on Vista) is turn off all of those programs you did, along with a host of other services/eye candy using BlackViper's Vista Tweaks. This significantly speeds up the OS in all aspects but can hardly be considered most users configs.
At first reading these comments I was firmly on the "sour grapes" to all of the Linux users complaining about what distro was used, or why X wasn't tweaked by going to a website and reading a tech article, but now I kind of agree with them. Your experience with Windows and lack of experience with Ubuntu had you setting up one for failure before the first test was even run.
Either you test both OS' as they are default installed (driver incompatibilities aside), or you need to have a Linux semi-guru set up your Ubuntu box. My recommendation is the former, as the latter has so many variables it's probably not worth testing in the first place.
Aside from the Ubuntu portion I enjoyed the article. It was very interesting to see how the different power profiles jockeyed for position. I would like to second an earlier commment that asked for idle time to shutdown numbers. Let's be honest, most of us are not going to surf continuously from 100% to dead battery. Rather we are more likely to use the laptop for a bit and then walk away, and come back later. It also will give a good indication of those background tasks impact on battery life (if you don't disable them in your config). I have a sneaky suspicion XP might look very good as it seems to be quite a bit more bare-bones than Vista/7.
Thanks again. Reply
code65536 - Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - linkAn Intel engineer explained it some years ago in a blog posting: XP's max battery basically throttles the CPU's frequency down all the time. For example, on my Core2Duo, it'd mean that the CPU will operate at 800MHz all the time, even when it's busy. On the other hand, if Windows gives Speed Step a free hand and lets Speed Step determine the speed, then the CPU will operate at 2GHz when busy, and slow to 800MHz only when it's idling. According to this Intel engineer, it makes no sense to have it always throttled to 800MHz, because that means that tasks will take longer to finish, and the CPU will spend less time idling (which is when the CPU *really* saves power), and he labeled the max battery mode as the "what the hell are you doing?" mode. Reply
Drizzt321 - Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - linkI completely understand your complaints on the length of time required to run the test, plus recharge the battery. Have you considered buying a 2nd or 3rd battery and finding an external charger? Or would that kill the results of the test because the battery would be different? Reply
PepperPot2 - Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - linkI fail to believe you included the default grub time in the boot as this to do so would be unrepresentative of real use. Who would sit there and wait for it to time out rather than just press the enter key triggering the boot process? Anyway a default install of ubuntu (where it is the only OS on the machine) doesn't show the grub menu, only a 2 second alert to allow you to bring it up if you want. I then immediately boots.
My experience with ubuntu is totally contrary to the conclusions you just posted about speed. We've have ~20 installs of Ubuntu 9.04 at work on old machines (7 yrs old) to a machine I built 1 month ago. In all instances the staff find it it is smoother and quicker to use than the dual boot copy of vista or XP.
The boot time on XP is clear nonsense, when ubuntu boots to the desktop you can use it almost immediately. XP is typically totally unusable for ~30 seconds while it loads more crap in the background. Vista is worse.
jasperjones - Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - linkThat's true, XP and Vista are pretty unresponsive for a minute or so after boot on your average entry-level laptop. OTOH, Ubuntu is snappy once you see the GNOME desktop. 9.04 is called jaunty ducy ;)
However, the same can be said of Win 7. It keeps loading stuff after you see the desktop, but that doesn't make the system feel sluggish--not at all Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - linkThe Windows boot times are stopped when I see the default system try icons appear (WiFi connectivity, volume, etc.) so the system is pretty much usable at that point. As for GRUB, it's a 2 second timeout, which I could bypass by pressing enter twice, but that still leaves around 8 seconds from the POST to the point where it looks like Ubuntu is actually loading. What's going on during that time? If we subtract POST times, then Ubuntu would look even worse. I can see about tweaking GRUB to skip straight to loading the OS and see if that helps as well... when I get time. Reply
jasperjones - Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - linkFYI--one can simply configure GRUB to not wait for user input by editing /boot/grub/menu.lst and changing the second or third line from "timeout x" to "timeout 0"
But I generally completely understand the argument not to change too many things from the default installation of Ubuntu, as it's doubtful that the average user would do it. Reply
maveric7911 - Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - linkI would love to see a properly installed and setup distribution of linux in this review (not bashing love that you included linux at all). As others stated above Archlinux would be a pretty good choice. All packages come optimized and things like native 64bit flash and other native 64 bit applications are apart of the stable repository "no adding repos necessary". Also as mentioned, not using the hardware accelerated driver of ati or nvidia will take a big hit on power right away. I'm always available to assist with any linux testing and/or questions.
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andrewaggb - Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - linkWhat I would like to see is Jared run all the tests on his version of Ubuntu, then let a linux expert have some ssh love to tweak it all up, and then let Jared run the tests again and see how much difference he finds. Reply


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Danny "Akalepse", a vinyl record collector from Brooklyn, NY
Winter in America – Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
This record is amazing, from the cover art to the music. There is a tune on this record in particular called "your daddy loves you". It is a beautiful song, it gives me hope, and it's nice to hear someone realize they are going the wrong way before it is too late. I hope I can do that in my life as well. The way he is singing it to his sleeping daughter because it is the only way he has the courage…..such a beautiful picture.


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Barsheba Harrington
b.abt 1773 Union, South Carolina, United States
d.aft 1840 Texas, United States
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Facts and Events
Will of John Harrington, Union District, South Carolina 12 Nov 1792 proved 16 Sep 1793
1790 census York County, Camden District, South Carolina
David Smith & Barsheba Harringon married, possibly in York County, South Carolina by 1790, because they are found in the York County, South Carolina census in 1790. Federal Census of York County, Camden District, South Carolina.
1 free white male over 16 years (David Smith) 1 free white female (Bersheba Harrington)
James Smith was born in Spartanburg District, South Carolina, 10 Sep 1792. The family must have stayed there for a while because, according to C. B. Smith, James was reared and educated there. [C. B. Smith of Austin, Texas in The History and Geography of Texas.]
In 1793, David became the executor of his father-in-law, John Harrington's estate. The will was written 12 Nov 1792, and probated 2 Sep 1793.
…My beloved friends David Smith, my son in law & Nicholas Corry to be executors.
David died sometime about 1806 and Barsheba Harrington Smith, his widow, married Thomas Lusk.
On 3 Oct 1814 there was a summons to Young J [H?]Harrington, executor of the LW&T of David Smith, dec', who was the executor of the LW&T of John Harrington, dec'd. To show why a writ of petition should not issue to lay out…Thos. Lusk and Barsheba his wife [note: This document proves that Barsheba married Thomas Lusk], heirs and legatees of John Harrington, late of said district, dec'd, their equal and distributive shares of a 600 acre tract situate on water of Gilkies and Abbentons Creek, adjoining land of _________ Morgan, Abram Guyton, Nicholas Corry, John Jefferies and others.. ---- ( From S. Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Review) v4, p 27) David was in the 1800 Federal Census of Union District, South Carolina. Their location change could be due to a boundary change or they may have moved.
1 male under 10 years (James Smith) 1 male 16 to 26 years (James 'Gideon' Smith, son of Gideon Smith? or John Smith, son of Daniel Smith?) 1 male 26 to 45 years (David Smith) 2 females under 10 years (Frances Smith, Delilah Smith) 1 female 26 to 45 years (Bershaba Harrington) 2 slaves Note from Ken Smith: The age bracket for 16 to 26 years of age is an unknown male. Was the son of one of David's brothers (Gideon Smith or Daniel Smith) who were killed in the Revolutionary War?
From Ken Smith's website: http://www.flash.net/~kensmith/barsheba.htm
David Smith died in 1806 as shown by the will of David Smith, Union District, South Carolina, 1 February 1806, recorded, 25 February 1806. "Being weak in body, …my landed property to be in the hands of my Dearly beloved wife, Bersheba during her life or widowhood. If she should marry then to retain the one third part of my land and moveable property with the use of negro wench Sue to be at her disposal among my children. Children to be raised and reasonable schooled out of her thirds with the use of negro, Sam. The other two thirds of land to be equally divided between my two sons, James and Henry Smith when Henry is of age. Also my well beloved daughters, Fanny and Delilah the other two thirds of my moveable property to be equally divided between them as they come of age.
Executors: Wife, Bersheba and Young G. Harrington. Wit: Wm. Cotton, Joseph Morehead. Thos. Lusk. .
" Union County, South Carolina Wills Volume 1, Book A, page 209. (Copy of will obtained from the South Carolina Archives) Will was proven 3 July 1806, Chester County, South Carolina. Proven by Wm Cotton, 25 Feb 1806.
Bersheba Harrington Smith married Thomas Lusk who was a widower. His wife Susanna Davidson Lusk had died leaving several children.
1810 Federal Census in Union District, South Carolina
1 male under 10 years (Henry Smith)
3 males 10 to 16 years (John Lusk, Andrew Lusk, Isaac Lusk) 1 male 16 to 26 years (James Smith) 1 male 26 to 45 years (Note from Ken Smith: May be: James 'Gideon' Smith or John Smith, son of one of David's brothers, or perhaps Young Harrington, Barsheba's brother?) 1 male over 45 years (Thomas Lusk) 4 females under 10 years (Sarah Lusk, Martha Lusk, Nancy Lusk, Betsy Lusk) 1 female 10 to 16 years (Delilah Smith, born 1794-1800) 1 female 16 to 26 years (Frances Smith, born 1794) 1 female 26 to 45 years (Bersheba Harrington Smith) 3 slaves
1 male 10 to 16 years (Henry Smith) 1 male over 45 years (Thomas Lusk) 2 females under 10 years (Permelia Lusk, Caroline Lusk) 1 female over 45 years (Barsheba Harrington Smith)
NOTE: Permelia and Caroline are the daughters of Thomas and Barsheba Harrington Smith Lusk.
Barsheba is head of household in the 1830 Lincoln County, Tennessee census.
2 females 15 to 20 years (Permelia Lusk, Caroline Lusk) 1 female 50 to 60 years (Barsheba Harrington Smith)
Barsheba moved to Nacogdoches County, Texas in 1836 with the rest of the Smith family. On the 1837, 1838, and 1839 tax lists of Nacogdoches County, Texas (Rusk County was carved out of Nacogdoches County) was a Barsheba Lusk.
Nacogdoches County, Texas 1837 tax list extraction of names: Barbara [Barsheba] LUSK by Col SMITH Andrew HAMILTON
In 1840, James Smith was Barsheba Harrington Smith Lusk's agent as well as agent for the heirs of F. Hamilton.
In the Texas General Land Office records there is a unconditional Class 2 headright land grant of 1280 acres (No. 77) to Barsheba Lusk in Rusk County, Texas on 4 August 1844, signed by George W. Smyth, it stated that she arrived in Texas in 1836.
Barsheba received a duplicate certificate in 1856 in Cooke County, Texas on the headwaters of Fish Creek about 18 1/2 miles west from the town of Gainsville, Texas. The second one was part of the Hugh Sarles old grant. Adjacent plats belonged to H. Sarles, Francis Hamilton, and Kuykendall. Francis Hamilton may be her son-in-law and related to another son-in-law, Andrew Hamilton. [Note by Sandra Smith Gwilliam: I do not know when or where Barsheba died, but it appears to be after 1856.]


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Tom Sykes heads to the 11th round of the 2011 World Superbike Championship at Imola keen to build on his tremendous maiden victory last time out at the Nurburgring.
Sykes returned Kawasaki to the winner's circle for the first time in five years after a faultless performance in heavy rain at the Nurburgring, though his celebrations were tempered with the revelation from team manager Paul Bird that neither he nor the PBM team would be retained for 2012.
Though Sykes has since gone on the record to refute the claims, insisting that talks are still ongoing, the Briton will seek to put the controversy behind him with another strong effort in Italy.
A return to the circuit where Sykes took pole position and two strong top six finishes aboard the previous generation ZX-10R, World Superbikes' newest race winner has high hopes for this year's event aboard the constantly improving new model.
"We had a great weekend in Germany and we could not have wished for anything else, so massive thanks to all my crew and Kawasaki," he said. "To get that win under our belt was a fantastic feeling and we can build on that now. We went to Misano for a test last week and we were fastest in qualifying trim and joint second fastest on race tyres. So I am hoping that some of the information we had there would transfer to Imola for this weekend.
"Imola is very stop and start, narrow and not so much room for error. Hopefully we can be even stronger than last year and if that is the case we could well taste champagne again. We do not want to get carried away but we need to go there with our heads screwed on and build on the latest information we have from the Misano test."
Since the previous round, Kawasaki has confirmed it is taking much of its development in-house for 2012, though it isn't clear whether it will still be fronted by a 'private' team and there was no confirmation of its riders.


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Lagos/The Hague/Geneva, 9 September 2011 – The Nigerian banking sector has recorded a major feat in its bid to incorporate responsible business practice and sustainability considerations into the sector's operations as the Governor of the country's Central Bank and Chief Executives Officers of leading banks have shown commitment to integrating Sustainability in their business operations while also influencing public policy and developing an industry standard as a guide for responsible lending activities in Nigeria.
This decision was made at the CEO Roundtable on Sustainable Finance, convened by Africa's Sustainability banking champion, Access Bank Plc, in partnership with the Netherlands Development Bank (FMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI).
According to the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, "the need for Nigerian banks to integrate Sustainability into their business processes cannot be overemphasized. Nigerian banks should not be using the savings of Nigerians to finance foreign companies whose operations damage Nigeria".
"The development of an industry standard is a welcome initiative and we will support the banks to ensure that we contribute effectively to the Sustainability of not just the financial institutions but of the society as a whole," he concluded.
In order to drive the process, a Sustainability Working Group was constituted to immediately commence the work on the agreed initiatives. Members of the working group are Access Bank, Diamond Bank, GTBank, Standard Chartered Bank, Citibank and Zenith Bank. The working group will work in conjunction with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Dutch Development Bank (FMO).
The Sustainability Working Group will function on the platform of the Banker's Committee's Economic Development sub-committee led by Access Bank's Group Managing Director/CEO, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede. This, the CEOs acknowledged, will be a boost to the emerging Nigerian sustainable finance sector and deepen industry knowledge about Sustainability.
Speaking on the development, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, GMD/CEO, Access Bank said "the focus of Nigeria's banking sector on environmental and social sustainability issues has to date been limited, pointing to the insufficiency of internal capacity or management guidelines in the sector."


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Bin Yu received his Ph.D. degree in atmospheric science from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (China). He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA and the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis (Canada). He has been a Research Scientist at the Climate Research Division of Environment Canada since 2004. His research interests include climate variability and climate change, climate sensitivity and feedback, atmospheric circulation and teleconnection, and monsoon meteorology. His research contributes to understanding of climate processes, climate variability, and climate change.
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Loyz Energy Limited (Loyz Energy or the Company, and together with its subsidiaries, the Group), a fast-growing Singapore-based upstream energy group announced today that Loyz Oil Thailand Pte Ltd (Loyz Oil), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, had, on Jan. 15, entered into a supplemental sale and purchase agreement (the Supplemental Agreement) with Carnarvon Thailand Limited (Carnarvon) for the amendment of certain terms in the sale and purchase agreement dated Feb. 28, 2014 (the Agreement). The Agreement was in relation to the acquisition by Loyz Oil from Carnarvon of a 20.0 percent participating interest in SW1 / L33 / L44 oil concessions (Concessions) located at Phetchabun Basin, Thailand (the Acquisition) as announced by the Company March 3, 2014. The Acquisition, which was completed April 30, 2014, was for a total consideration of $65 million, comprising payment of (a) $33 million, which was satisfied in full on the date of completion of the Acquisition, and (b) the remaining $32 million to be satisfied as a debt due and payable by way of post completion receivable payments (the Post Completion Receivable Payments), Nov. 30 of each year, with the first payment due Nov. 30, 2015.
The Company announced that pursuant to the Supplemental Agreement, the first payment for the Post Completion Receivable Payment, amounting to $702,000, has been amended and shall be satisfied by: (a) a payment of $100,000, payable in cash by Dec. 30, 2015, which for the avoidance of doubt, was paid by the Group to Carnarvon Dec. 30, 2015; and (b) a payment of $602,000, payable by the issue and allotment of 21,597,000 new ordinary shares in the capital of the Company (the New Shares) at an issue price of $0.0278 (SGD 0.040) per New Share by Jan. 31, subject to approval from all applicable authorities.
Commenting on Carnavon taking an equity stake in the Company, Managing Director of Loyz Energy, Adrian Lee said, "This equity participation by Carnavon will improve our cash flows for the operational requirements of the Concessions." A drilling program for further exploration of the resources at the Concessions is being implemented."
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SEATTLE -- This was a tale of two left-handers, one of whom had the misfortune of pitching for the Padres and the other had the great fortune of pitching against them.
Randy Wolf vs. Seattle's Erik Bedard, who is unquestionably one of the best left-handed starters in baseball -- not that you need to be if you are facing the Padres.
Left-handers have given the Padres fits all season, which meant that Wolf must have known his safety net was the size of a bikini as he took the mound against the Seattle Mariners Saturday night at Safeco Field.
Crazy thing was, Wolf, who had struggled in four of his last five outings, pitched one of the better games of the Padres' season until he ran into Ichiro Suzuki while protecting a one-run lead in the bottom of the seventh.
On the 10th pitch of a classic pitcher-hitter duel, Suzuki doubled just beyond the range of Brian Giles in right-center to knot the game at 2-2. Adrian Beltre then hit a two-run homer off reliever Cla Meredith.
Bedard, meantime, gave up only a two-run homer to Adrian Gonzalez over eight innings. He allowed five hits and walked only one while striking out 10 in the 4-2 Mariners win.
Padres hitters have now struck out 42 times over the past four games with 26 of those strikeouts administered by a left-handed pitcher.
Bedard, of course, is one of the best. But it might as well be Mark Redman.
The Padres are now 2-11 against left-handed starting pitchers this season and are hitting .210 against all-left handers with just 33 walks against 94 strikeouts.
The Padres' on-base rate against left-handed pitchers is 27.4 percent. Their strikeout rate is 25 percent. The Padres have 15 more strikeouts (94) than hits (79) against left-handers.
Omit Kevin Kouzmanoff, who hits left-handed pitching at a .333 clip (15-for-45 despite an 0-for-4 Saturday night with two strikeouts) and the Padres are hitting .193 against left-handed pitching.
Five of the nine hitters … including designated hitter Tony Clark -- opening against Bedard Saturday night are hitting .200 or worse against left-handed pitching -- Tadahito Iguchi (.162), Adrian Gonzalez (.192), Josh Bard (.133), Justin Huber (.200) and Clark (1-for-10).
Even with Gonzalez's two-run homer, the Padres have scored only 36 runs in 376 at-bats against left-handed pitching, and five of those were unearned.
Still, you have to give Bedard his due -- "We saw it last year," said manager Bud Black, "he has developed into one of the best lefties in the game" -- while commiserating with Wolf.
"Wolf absolutely pitched well enough to win," said Black. "It's a shame that he didn't."
While Bedard was blowing the Padres away with fastballs in the 94-95 mph range, Wolf was keeping the Mariners off-balance with a variety of off-speed pitches.
And thanks to Gonzalez's two-run, opposite-field homer in the fourth, Wolf took a 2-1 lead into the seventh, when the game turned on one of the best hitter-pitcher duels of the season.
Wolf entered the inning having allowed only one run on five hits while working on a string of eight straight outs. But reserve catcher Jamie Burke, who entered the game with a .136 average, opened the inning with his second single of the night.
Yuniesky Betancourt flied out to right, bringing Suzuki to the plate with the tying run on first.
Wolf and Suzuki battled for 10 pitches. Wolf jumped ahead, then Suzuki fouled off four straight two-strike pitches. "Those were tough pitches he fouled off ... until he could get a pitch to handle," Black said.
On the 10th pitch, Suzuki hit a liner to right-center that just sailed over the head of Giles. The tying run scored and Wolf was done.
In came Meredith, who had not given up an earned run in his previous 10 appearances. So the first hitter he faced, Beltre, hit a decisive two-run homer.
"Obviously, he's one of the best hitters in the game and he had a really good at-bat," Wolf said of Suzuki. Then, when someone mentioned how well Wolf had pitched, the left-hander politely said:
"It really doesn't matter if you don't win."


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Hi all. I've just registered to this forum because I've been searching for days now, and while often getting close, I couldn't really resolve the issue I#m dealing with.
I've got a table with two DATETIME values in each row. What I'd like to do is, is crafting a query that calculates the TIMEDIFF between the two dates, but only the elapsed time within business hours, e.g. between 08:00 and 17:00. Furthermore Saturday and Sunday need to be excluded.
The closest I've come is with a PHP script, but I would like to do it in MySQL.
How do I go best ahead with this ?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Cheers.
want my advice? don't try to do this with sql
Thanks for the reply r937
Currently I have an Access / MSVB application that does just what I want, but I'm not a fan of this software vendor and I am currently in the process of rewriting the application using open source software only .. thus it's PHP / MySQL based and runs in a browser.
So far it really works like a charm as far as it concerns the importing operations of the data, the creation of the numerous tables and it already delivers the output I want to .. except this time calculation thingy.
Are you saying I better pull the data via PHP from the db and do the calculations only within the PHP script ? Isn't there a way to program a function in MySQL that does this ? In MS Access the VB function is called from within the Query. I was hoping to gain a huge performance improvement by not doing that in PHP ; )
you could write a user-defined function in mysql, yeah
same order-of-magnitude difficulty as writing it in php, i'm guessing
in either case, it's not actually being done with sql, though, and that was my point
Gotcha. I guess I'll head towards the PHP guys then and ask them to have a look at my script ^^
Thanks mate.
Any major calculations done inside of an SQL query are going to slow your queries down considerably, though it may not look that way on a small amount of data or on a server that isn't getting much traffic.
Its a good idea to pull the information needed using SQL and then process the data using your programming language of choice.
though it may not look that way on a small amount of data or on a server that isn't getting much traffic.
Unfortunately we're talking about a multi-million-row db :sick:
On the bright side: It's only supposed to be accessed by a single user on a local machine so bandwidth is none of my concern.
Its a good idea to pull the information needed using SQL and then process the data using your programming language of choice.
And I'm about to do just that ^^
I've just posted a script over at the PHP section and I'm sure someone will have a clue or two how to give it the final touch.


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Don't laugh, it's really an inspiring, thought-provoking place. First of all, its immensity is impressive. It takes five minutes to get from the gate to where you can dump your load of old building materials and tree branches. In the meantime you drive through a vast lunar landscape that wasn't formed by God and nature, but by man and machines. Buried under the scraped, angular surface is the waste of urban society. At the dumping site, always in a different spot from the last time you visited, enormous bulldozers, which make the earth shake beneath your feet, bury San Diego's garbage under the soil. Until the stench drives you away, you can sit and contemplate the waste of our wealthy society, or the image of the earth taking back what she has given us. Or, you can just watch big machines push around mountains of garbage.


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Girls basketball: Chargers keep pace atop LEC
The Brandon-Evansville girls finished off Underwood down the stretch last Friday to secure a 48-44 win after trailing by 10 points in the game.
The Chargers got 17 points from Carrigan Okerlund and 11 points, eight rebounds and five steals from Emma Friedrich. A drive and bucket from Okerlund late in the game put her team up for good as Brandon-Evansville moved to 8-7 overall and to 6-1 in the Little Eight Conference.
"We played well when we had to and came from behind," head coach Dick Simpson said. "We didn't shoot very well, but we made plays down the stretch. Give the girls credit for some poise late and pulling it out. Underwood and us always seem to have a close game. They play hard, and we were fortunate to come out ahead."
Okerlund overcame a sickness that kept her out of school the day before to put up the game-high 17 points. The freshman guard came up big down the stretch to help the Chargers hold on.
"She hit some threes and scored 12 points in the second half," Simpson said. "She also had two free throws after that two that put us in the lead for good."
Brandon-Evansville shot just 15-of-45 from the field but also held Underwood to 16-of-42 shooting. The Chargers made five more free throws, which helped them hold on.
The win helped Brandon-Evansville keep pace atop the LEC. Both Parkers Prairie and the Chargers were 6-1 in league play with Battle Lake sitting in third place at 7-2.
Brandon-Evansville was scheduled to be at Battle Lake last night, Tuesday. The Chargers then go to Graceville to play CGB on Thursday before welcoming in Rothsay on Friday and going to Concordia College in Moorhead to play Hawley. This is part of a stretch where Brandon-Evansville will play 10 games in 18 days.
TOTALS – B-E – FG – 15-45; FT – 12-20; Rebounds – 26; Turnovers – 13; Underwood – FG – 16-42; FT – 7-17; Rebounds – 26; Turnovers – 13
B-E – Megan Kokett – 5 points; Melissa Haseman – 3 points; Okerlund – 17 points; Elizabeth Vinson – 8 points, 7 assists; Mariah Hansen – 4 points; Friedrich – 11 points, 8 rebounds, 5 steals
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Hamas said an Israel Air Force aircraft attacked the house belonging to Ahmed Hamouda, whom it described as one of its senior bomb-makers. "The Beit Lahiya massacre was caused by an Israeli strike that targeted a Qassam leader," Hamas said in a statement.
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The Adventures of Tod Williams
Photo by Virginia Lee Hunter"WHEN I FIRST STARTED TALKING ABOUT THE FILM, I USED to pretend it was a lot less autobiographical," says Tod Williams. "The big question for me was, why would anyone make an autobiographical film if you're a nobody?"
And yet what's so captivating about his debut feature, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, is how liberated it is from such questions of irrelevance. In turning for inspiration to his years as a teenage outsider in rural upstate New York, the 30-year-old writer-director doesn't try to draw big meaning from his past by following typical coming-of-age trajectories, with their tidy lessons and the inevitable arrival of maturity. Instead, Adventures is an episodic film that favors ambiguity and relativity in order to find what matters in the flow of experience. In that sense, as personal and specific as its story is, the film still feels as if it could be about anybody trying to find his way in life.
No doubt this is one reason why Adventures met with enthusiastic audiences this year at Sundance and last year at Toronto -- where Paramount Classics picked it up. But as the filmmaker admits, its unconventional structure and characters make it a tough sell. Indeed, it's the kind of independent production that's becoming all too rare these days: one without an immediate marketing hook. "It's terrible," Williams says of his dilemma. "It's unpitchable. It's not an art-house movie, it's not a pop movie, and it's not a comedy. It's sort of for kids, it's sort of for adults. You could say it's about a guy and his transsexual stepfather, but I don't think that's what it's really about either."
Set in northern New York state in 1983, the film turns in part on the difficult relationship between Sebastian (Adrian Grenier) and his stepdad, Hank (Clark Gregg), who early on announces his plans to become a woman. Hank/Henrietta's decision shatters the Cole family, with mom fleeing to her native London and sister running away to California. Only Sebastian sticks around, to begin his own journey of self-discovery on his way to becoming a writer. At least this is the way he rationalizes his pursuit of adolescent kicks, whether it's the banal death trip of drinking himself into a coma or his beguiling failure at playing romantic hero to a New York City street urchin. As this new wave/punk rebel drifts between sympathetic antihero and just plain asshole, Henrietta is both his whipping post and his subtle guide.
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Despite Williams' eventual embrace of his film's autobiographical nature -- "It got too complicated to lie about," he says -- he remains cagey when asked to identify those elements drawn from his life and those drawn from his imagination. To get too specific, it seems, would come with its own complications. What he will say is: "I was thinking about someone who really changed my life when I was a teenager, and I had forgotten how much I owed them. I really wanted to express that, everything about the freedom and loneliness you feel when you start being a person and stop being a part of a family."
Above all, however, Williams stresses that his reliance on personal history was not indulgence but an attempt to keep himself in check as a filmmaker. "I wanted to make something that felt real," he says. "And I was kind of using reality as my shit detector, to let me know when I was faking it."
That the strategy worked is evident not only in the film's naturalistic rhythms and dead-on feel for the essential drift and uncertainty of adolescence, but in its sense of time and place -- a mark of Williams' biggest cinematic influences, Hal Ashby and Terrence Malick. Devoid of nostalgia and retro glibness, Henrietta's struggle to live out a fading '70s idealism in the Reagan era and Sebastian's own experiments with androgyny seem as urgent and poignant as if the film were actually shot in 1983.
"That's one of the things I'm most proud of," says Williams, who gives much of the credit to his cast and crew. "You can't pick out one detail -- there's a certain arrangement of things that makes the era feel more organic. It's like pre-irony, pre-attitude."
Which further separates Adventures from the current glut of teen product. That and the fact that it has no real ending. After Sebastian's last adventure -- one of the film's most insular sequences, and a homage to Harold and Maude -- he simply falls away out of the frame.
"I tried to let the film take me where it wanted to go," Williams says of this ambiguous endnote. "With the ending, it's annoying, it doesn't really work, it's not a movie. I had the chance to re-cut it after Toronto, and everyone involved would have loved me to come up with something. I just couldn't do it. I had to stick to what I felt it was. On your first film, you find out who you are as a filmmaker, and sometimes it's a shock. I don't know if I'll do it this way again, but maybe that's who I am."
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I was thinking more of a cylindrical container of water. And great minds think alike - my plan was to use a 12V cup immersion heater, the sort that plug into car cigarette lighter sockets. I'm not sure about automatic temperature control circuits yet - initial plan was to do it by eye with a 0-12V model railway controller (which I'm going to retrieve from my parents at the weekend). I'd like to get the mechanics right before automating it. Or more likely passing it on to someone here who is more excited by the automation part than I am.
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Do you keep design magazines? I love to go back and look at mine. Last night I was flipping through Architectural Digest from March of 1991, and found this amazing Palm Beach apartment and had to share. Bob Patino designed this beautiful home. Besides it being gorgeous, it is interestingly current. Much of what was in the issue needed editing by today's standards, but not this minimally lovely apartment. What do you think?
Henry Moore's Reclining Woman is displayed in the gallery.
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The Start is finally here!! Opening Day for Dodgers Baseball. After the last pitch of the 2011 Season All Dodger fans waited and a lot of things have happened between the final out of the World Series to now. Frank McCourt agrees to sale the team, Sitting through the Anaheim Angels make a big signing, Owner Auctions, Big players signings, Magic Johnson and Group buying the Dodgers, You name it it happened. Yesterday signaled the end of Spring training for the Dodgers and the begining of the real deal. It will be a wild season for the Dodgers but for many of us We're ready for the challenges.
Today the Dodgers open with a 4 Game series against the San Deigo Padres and while the game is in San Deigo you can expect A LOT of Dodger blue in the stands for the weekend. Cy Young Award Winner Clayton Kershaw becomes the first Cy Young Award winning Dodger pitcher to Start Opening day since Sandy Koufax in 1964. Dodgers have beaten the Padres in the Season Series 13 times while SD only beat the Dodgers 5. This is the 11th time these two teams will meet on Opening day as they split Opening Day meetings 5-5 with the last meeting being a Padres victory in San Deigo. So much excitement for today's game.
I expect this series to be highly in the Dodgers favor but it will all come down to Dodgers Pitching. In the Pre-Season games vs the Angels the Bullpen really got worked and while most were rookies it still becomes a worry of mine. If the Dodgers Bullpen can hold up then theres no reason why the Dodgers shouldn't take this series. Overall I believe the Dodger bats will be good for this game today and the series.
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Special to The SWT
With the local economy already feeling the effects of a five-year downturn in economic growth, the announcement last month that Caterpillar was closing its Pulaski plant and laying off 240 employees is a blow to the solar plexus. The closing does not just affect the employees and their families, although they will feel the full brunt of the closing and resultant unemployment, but it will ripple through the local economy as well affecting many local businesses.
In an email interview with James Koch, Professor of Economics and President Emeritus of the Department of Economics at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, when asked about the ripple effect to the local economy, Koch wrote "I've completed several dozen economic impact studies and therefore can state that there is virtually no question that this will have a negative ripple effect that will be felt throughout the local and regional economies," although he added that he would "have to see the precise numbers to go further."
James Koch is co-author with Craig Bouchard, a former student of Koch, on a book titled "The Caterpillar Way" in which they chronicle the fall and rise of Caterpillar. "CAT went three consecutive years losing approximately $1 million per day. They were in serious trouble and the company's continuing existence was in some measure of doubt. Today, the company is the dominant leader of its industries on a global basis. CAT may well be the best-managed company in the world. To achieve such a turnaround required a series of successful strategic and operational changes," wrote Bouchard in an article announcing the book. This may well be true and it may point to the reason for the demise of plants like the one in Pulaski as well as plants in Tazewell and Beckley, W.Va. Their book details the economic studies within Caterpillar to determine its market presence. Many factors are considered but one must also consider the economic climate of the nation and the impact the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) policies may have on their analysis. When Senator Obama was running for President in 2008, he said, "if someone wants to build a coal powered plant, they can, and it's just that it will bankrupt them …"
The EPA has taken the lead on regulating power plants and has essentially legislated coal fired power plants out of business. When Caterpillar adds this calculation to its economic formula on where to operate plants that specialize in mining equipment, the impact is fundamental to the outcome – consolidate and minimize the risk to the company. When I asked this same question of Koch, he responded, "Once again, while I don't have a precise answer here, it certainly seems likely that EPA guidelines relative to the mining of coal had an influence on caterpillar's thinking. However, so also would other factors such as lower natural gas prices, etc. In my view, EPA guidelines aren't the only things that count in Caterpillar's thinking." While several major factors are influencing the decision made by Caterpillar to close the Pulaski plant, nothing will ease the pain of unemployment for families facing economic havoc or the impact to citywide businesses and their families with another major driver of economic activity closing their doors. The sting is magnified at this time of year when families want to celebrate the holidays with loved ones without the fear of unemployment looming in their lives.
When I asked Professor Koch if he believed that the current administration intends to keep its promise to kill off the coal industry in the near term, his response was, "I have not heard anyone such as President Obama make such a statement. I believe this is the interpretation of others. That said, this administration is not seen as coal friendly. We need to recognize, however, there are other moving parts in this situation. We live in a world characterized by much lower natural gas prices and declining KWH costs for some alternate energy sources such as solar, etc. Plus, we now have burgeoning U.S. oil production because of fracking and other techniques. And, finally, we have the onset of increasingly restrictive environmental regulations at both the state and federal levels. Hence, I would not lay all of the blame for the relative decline in coal production on the Obama administration – though its policies certainly have had an effect."
While Koch analyzes this issue strictly from an economic viewpoint, I take an alternate view. I think the decision by Caterpillar to close plants in Pulaski, Tazewell, Beckley, W.Va., and London, Ontario is a direct result of this administration's war on the coal sector, as well as other energy producers in the United States. The ending of the story is yet to be told, but there is sufficient evidence that the people who bear the cost of this decision are hard working, honest, middle class blue-collar families, and the central core of small town businesses that depend on those paychecks. When government enters the marketplace to influence production of any commodity, it distorts the free market. Companies, like Caterpillar, are forced to make decisions not on free market principles but on government edicts that devastate families, communities, towns, and eventually the Commonwealth.
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The Church Year: May 27, 2012
Today is Pentecost Sunday The liturgical color is red.
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On May 27, in the Ordinary Form, we celebrate St. Augustine of Canterbury, bishop. It is an optional memorial.
In the Extraordinary Form, we celebrate St. Bede the Venerable, OSB, confessor and doctor of the Church, who died in A.D. 735. It is a Class III day.
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156. Eastertide concludes with Pentecost Sunday, the fiftieth day, and its commemoration of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the apostles (cf. Acts 2, 1-4), the Church's foundation, and the beginning of its mission to all nations and peoples. The protracted celebration of the vigil Mass has a particular importance in cathedrals and some parishes, since it reflects the intense persevering prayer of the Christian community in imitation of the Apostles united in prayer with Mother of Jesus.
The mystery of Pentecost exhorts us to prayer and commitment to mission and enlightens popular piety which is a "continued sign of the presence of the Holy Spirit in the Church. He arouses faith, hope and charity, in the hearts [of the faithful] and those ecclesial virtues which make popular piety valuable. The same Spirit ennobles the numerous and varied ways of transmitting the Christian message according to the culture and customs of all times and places."
The faithful are well used to invoking the Holy Spirit especially when initiating new undertakings or works or in times of particular difficulties. Often they use formulas taken from the celebration of Pentecost (Veni, Creator Spiritus; Veni, Sancte Spiritus) or short prayers of supplication (Emitte Spiritum tuum et creabuntur). The third glorious mystery of the Rosary invites the faithful to meditate on the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. In Confirmation they are conscious of receiving the Spirit of wisdom and counsel to guide and assist them; the Spirit of strength and light to help them make important decisions and to sustain the trials of life. The faithful are also aware that through Baptism their bodies become temples of the Holy Spirit to be respected and honored, even in death, and they know that the body will be raised up on the last day through the power of the Holy Spirit.
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SWITCHFOOT VIP Experience // NOV 4 Geneva, CH
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MEET & GREET EXPERIENCE - ($60 + cost of ticket)
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- Private VIP access to Soundcheck
- Individual photo with SWITCHFOOT
- Early Entrance to the show (where applicable, and with a valid ticket)
- Set List
SWITCHFOOT SIDE STAGE VIP MEET & GREET EXPERIENCE - ($250 + cost of ticket): {limited capacity}
High-five the guys as they walk on/off stage and enjoy the chance of a lifetime to watch your favorite band from a designated Side Stage VIP spot.
Sit in general admission or reserved seats during the other acts and be escorted backstage for SWITCHFOOT's performance.
- SIDE STAGE VIP Tour Pass
- Back Stage Tour w/ crew member
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- New Limited Edition Print – autographed by SWITCHFOOT
- Private Performance
- Individual Photo with SWITCHFOOT
- Early Entrance to the venue (where applicable and with a valid ticket)
- Special VIP bag
- SWITCHFOOT Wristband
- This pass is only for the VIP EXPERIENCE, for admission to the show you will need to purchase tickets from the ticket link at www.switchfoot.com/tour
- All details will be emailed 72 hours before the show.
- All meet and greet photos will be taken by the band's photographer and uploaded to SWITCHFOOT's Facebook or a link to download
- Arrival/Check-In Time: Plan to arrive at least 2 hours prior to doors. Exact details will be emailed to pass holders 72 hours before the event.
- Check-In Location: A VIP sign placed near the box office
- Most VIP Meet N Greets will take place before the doors open. If you arrive after general admission doors, please proceed to the merchandise area to receive your items.
Example Schedule:
2:15pm VIP Check-in
3:00pm VIP Experience
5:55pm VIP Early Entry
6:00pm General Admission Doors
I purchased the VIP EXPERIENCE, do I need a ticket to the show, too?
Yes. You MUST have a ticket to the show in order to participate in the VIP Experience
What do I need in order to access the VIP Experience
Your name will be on a list. You do not need printed tickets and nothing will be mailed to you.
Does my VIP pass give me access to the show?
Your VIP ticket gives you access to the VIP meet and greet, but it does not allow access to the venue/show. You will need to purchase an actual show ticket through the venue's ticketing website.
Do I need to bring an ID?
No ID or receipts will be needed to pickup VIP Credentials. ID's may be needed when picking up tickets or accessing the venue.
Where/when do I line up for the meet and greet?
Arrival/Check-In Time: Plan to arrive at least 1 hour prior to doors on weekdays, 3-4 hours prior on Saturday or Sunday. Exact details will be emailed to pass holders 24 hours before the event.
Check-In Location: A VIP sign placed near the box office*
*If you arrive after check-in has occurred, proceed to the merchandise area to receive your items
How do I collect my VIP merch items?
See the Merch Table.
Will I be taking my own photo during the VIP photo opportunity?
All photos taken during the VIP photo opportunity will be taken by SWITCHFOOT's team and uploaded to their social media/website within 2 days of the performance.
My parents bought the pass, but it's for me. Do they need to be there?
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What should I do?
For the past week I have been stressing over whether to send my in-laws something for Christmas (they live in another state). DH says I shouldn't be worrying about it but I still do. I'm finding it difficult for several reasons, 1. because anytime we send something it never gets used- so I don't even know what to send!, 2. because rarely do we even get calls from them, 3. they never call on holidays or send the kids even a birthday card on their birthdays, 4. chances are likely that if we don't call them on christmas, we won't hear from them. It's just odd to me. When we confront them on it- they say "oh we don't want to call and bother you, we know you're busy" - so? at least we know you care. Then, when we do go to visit, they act completely different and even have told us on numerous occasions how much they want us to move there (that's a whole other story). So I'm struggling. Do I send something or not? I guess the only reason is because I was told they are sending something for the kids. I hate having to stress over something so ridiculous. Any advice?
Or maybe a gift card for them to choose. I live near my in laws and we only spent around 30 dollars all together (a personalized mug, a DVD, a shirt, and a personalized ornament). We focus more on the kids. But if I was in your shoes, I'd send a card. Sorry if I sound cruel. But I wouldn't stress. Maybe have the kids make something and send it?
I like this idea or send some flowers or one of those edible arrangment baskets.
Quoting erinsmom1964:
Have the kids make a card
You could be talking about my in-laws! However, instead of us moving there, they were hurt and confused why we moved away from them closer to my family (for one - LOVE our new home, and two - read on.) It was funny when I met them for the first time, my husband was excited because he thought how warm and inclusive they were - fast forward years later and he realizes - not so much, expecially compared to mine. His Mom 'forgets' to call on his birthday - let alone mine or our DD. His Dad came to vist (when we were only a couple hours away) and cut it short every time. It is still hard sometimes, but I stopped letting it bother me. They don't mean to be, when we make the trip to see them, they say how much they miss us and our DD but I have just realized they are self-centered people who only think about what is right in front of them and I am wasting my life and energy worrying about what they do or think. It is hard to explain to kids, but I am going with -they are really busy. His whole family - and it is big. They are so busy focusing on their own lives, they have little time to think about anyone elses. Now - to your question. In years past, I would make generic 'family baskets' for each of the in-law's families. Pasta dinner or movies (netflix gift certificates) and hot cocoa, one time I made a Christmas morning breakfast with scone ingrediants in a mason jar, some jams and coffee. Yeah, it takes some time, but when making several you get an assembly line going and you can make quite a few. Even with shipping, I used the prepaid mail box, it was still cheaper than individual gifts at $25-30 per family. This year, I am sending homemade handprint ornaments from our DD and some picture necklaces of our DD I made. Small, but personal. Have your kids make something for them, salt dough or other ornaments are usually good, and I would leave it at that. Shows you were thinking of them, and your kids were too and you won't be so hurt if they don't send anything to you. Sorry for the long post - good luck!
Great idea! Stick a gift card in there with it. That's all I'd do.
Quoting erinsmom1964:
Have the kids make a card
With all that you posted the only think I would do is have the kids make a card and leave it at that. Sorry about your in-laws. Good luck.
Why not send them something like a nice framed family picture.
send a card and maybe $20 in it or send them a visa gift card or something, that will surely get used lol


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That's the going rumor from the boys at What's Playing, who have been right on a lot of scoops lately. This latest one, though, comes from an unverified source, and so you should consider it as RUMOR only.
So, what's the word? John Cena, WWE wrestler turned movie star, is being "looked at" as a possible lead in the "True Lies" TV series that is currently in development over at ABC.
Based on the 1994 action movie by "Avatar's" James Cameron, the original movie starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as a mild-mannered (or at least as mild-mannered as you can be looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger, natch) computer salesman by day and International spy of intrigue by night. Tom Arnold co-starred along with Eliza Dushku and Jamie Lee Curtis. That film was a hit for Cameron, though it's considered one of his lesser films, which is saying lots when you've got "Terminator" and "Aliens" on your resume.
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- Dietary lipids and geriatric depression scale score among elders: the EPIC-Greece cohortA Kyrozis
Department of Neurology, Eginition Hospital, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
J Psychiatr Res 43:763-9. 2009..Olive oil intake, in particular, predicts a lower chance of scoring in the highest part of the GDS...
- Diet, physical activity and cognitive impairment among elders: the EPIC-Greece cohort (European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition)T Psaltopoulou
Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Athens Medical School, 75 Mikras Asias Street, GR 11527 Athens, Greece
Public Health Nutr 11:1054-62. 2008..To identify dietary and lifestyle variables that may affect cognitive function in the elderly...
- Incidence and predictors of post-stroke aphasia: the Arcadia Stroke RegistryA Kyrozis
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Eur J Neurol 16:733-9. 2009..Aphasia is an important post-stroke sequela. We estimated the prevalence and main determinants of post-stroke aphasia in the prefecture of Arcadia, Greece...