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A New President - Now What?Recreationists Must Unite and Mobilize Now
Publish date: Jan 20, 2009
By: Del Albright
Source: Trails at Off-Road.com
Recreationists who enjoy the backcountry, waterways, off-pavement trails and SUV exploring have a huge new door of opportunity open to us – as well as a new challenge. The time has never been more critical for us to unite and mobilize to enjoy this new door and meet this new challenge. No matter how you wanted this election to turn out, we have to step up, work together, and mobilize our forces to help this new administration understand our sports and access issues.
Inherent with new Presidents, rotating congress critters, and term limits, we will always be in the game of educating new elected officials. It is our destiny if we are to survive.
I think there are a few steps we can take to ensure the future of our sports, no matter how you view this change in American politics. And one thing is for sure: we can all be proud of the fact that it is America and we can affect change by speaking up and working together. This is not the time to sit by and wait. We must act and help the newly-elected politician at all levels understand that we are the responsible stewards of our public lands and that we deserve access. Here are my suggestions for "now what?"
Step one is to unite our various sports and access interests at every opportunity. Leadership meetings and Summits, intra and inter-state, will help us find new ways to cooperate. Differences must be put aside and past intra-sport conflicts must come to an end. We need an Army now, more than ever. National groups like the BlueRibbon Coalition are an obvious membership for every recreationist in this country because "mixed use" will be an important strategy for keeping trails and riding areas open.
Groups like the North American Motorized Recreation Council (NAMRC) and the new BlueRibbon National Land Use Advisory Council (NLUAC) that facilitate regionalized communication will help us breech gaps in communication and facilitate long-term solutions to local and regional problems, as well as national issues. But no matter who works for us, we all need to be united in our efforts.
Step two is to engage recreationists at all levels to join up and be part of organized recreation. There are millions of us out there waiting for a reason to join up and get involved. This new Administration is the reason. They need us to help them understand who we are and what we stand for.
A quick internet search shows that those who oppose our access outnumber us by well over a million members and hundreds of millions of dollars. Just the numbers for a few key groups are shocking:
* The Wilderness Society has over 300,000 members and supporters, with $60 million bucks in the bank.
* The Sierra Club with over 730,000 members and over a hundred million dollars in their kitty.
* The National Audubon Society with net assets at the end of 2007 at over $300 million and tens of thousands of members.
So why do we have so many off-pavement and waterway recreationists who are not members of something? The reality is that our state, regional and national organizations have not yet found the magic formula to engage all these pending members. I think this election changes that. We all now have reasons to jump in with both feet and to engage our friends and fellow recreationists to turn this door of opportunity into one we'll never forget. We have to be the solution with our large organizations and become the empowerment to get others to join the cause. Membership in our standing organizations and clubs is absolutely critical to the survival of responsible recreation.
Step three is to adopt more of our public lands and engage with our state and federal land management agencies. We have to partner up with land management agencies at every opportunity and find ways for us to be involved in the use, management and future of those lands and waterways we love to play on. We need to be at the table when decisions are made, problems are identified, and solutions are implemented.
We have to take "ownership" of our resources. Oh, excuse me, we do own America! Let's not forget that. When it comes to public lands, they are YOUR public lands. So we need to do everything we can to ensure our lands are protected FOR the public instead of FROM the public.
(That is the motto of the BlueRibbon Coalition).
Dave Walters
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This thread really caught my eye and it is the point of why I think I will feel right at home here.
I grew up in a hunting family and conservation and stewardship was taught by my father, he always said that we need to care for the animals and lands that we hunted or we wouldn't have them anymore, further, he always maintained that if you didn't care, you didn't derserve the priveledge of using these lands.
The whole post was great but it is the last statement that really got me:
"We have to take "ownership" of our resources. Oh, excuse me, we do own America! Let's not forget that. When it comes to public lands, they are YOUR public lands. So we need to do everything we can to ensure our lands are protected FOR the public instead of FROM the public. "
I agree that we need to think in terms of ownership since we tend to care for and take care of the things we own.
I have gone and looked at the clean up events, I may not be able to run crowbait on trails for a while, but we can sure get there to lend my back and shovel in support.
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Allow me to give you a pop quiz for a moment: what do director Michael Caton-Jones and I have in common? Neither one of us had seen Fred Zinneman's 1973 The Day of the Jackal film before the idea to remake it for (then upcoming) 21st century sensibilities was tossed around. I don't know if Jones has since seen the film since making his reinterpretation, but I know that I haven't, and something tells me his version, while well-intentioned, probably should have been reconsidered.
From Frederick Forsyth's novel, Chuck Pfarrer (Red Planet) takes a turn at modernizing the story, with Bruce Willis (What Just Happened) as the title character. The Jackal has been given a mission to assassinate the First Lady and FBI Director, for retribution on a Russian crime boss's brother being killed. However the Jackal prizes his anonymity, so catching him is a tough proposition. He has only been seen by one man, a jailed IRA gunman named Declan (Richard Gere, I'm Not There). It's Declan's job to spot the Jackal for the FBI before he carries out his job.
All in all, the story within The Jackal is much more focused on the chase, and Jones shows the pursuit of this (and the planning Willis undertakes for the job) effectively, making for a white-knuckled ride. They dispense with things like getting the Jackal's plan moving and the freeing of Declan quickly so they can do just that. On the FBI/good guy side, the Special Agent In- Charge named Preston (Sidney Poitier, Sneakers) and the female Russian officer Valentina (Diane Venora, Heat) try to help Declan find the Jackal. In the meantime, they deal with leaks to the Jackal about what the FBI's next moves might be. They serve as effective complementary pieces to Declan's chase.
As for Gere as Declan, well I've seen the movie twice now, and the lines he's given are good, but he delivers them with such a muddled Irish accent that you're left wondering what it is he may have said at times. It's frustrating because the chase is enticing, and the lilt pushes you right away from your interest. The chase is additionally enticing because you can make the leap of disbelief to some of the weapons that Willis has in his arsenal to pull off the job. Thrown in all of this is a subplot with a once-romantic interest of Declan's that drags the pacing of the film down tremendously.
So does The Jackal manage to pull off the duty of being a post-Cold War thriller with swatches of action thrown in? It does have its moments. Willis does a lot with his low-key manner and delivery of movement as The Jackal. Poitier (and to a lesser degree, Venora) manage to bring some credence to the law-enforcement angle, and there's even a J.K. Simmons sighting, circa Oz. But, at its core, it's a movie with a guy with an indistinguishable Irish accent trying to catch a cold-blooded killer. I saw this movie...when it was called Blown Away, and I wasn't that much of a fan of that, either.
The 2.35:1 widescreen 1080p high-definition presentation from Universal is done with the VC-1 codec and for a decade-plus old film, the results aren't bad. The image is clear and possesses a noticeable layer of film grain in many scenes, and the image detail is better than expected. Blacks are deep and consistent through the film and the level of depth and detail in the background gives the image a multidimensional look in parts of the feature. There are some periods where the image is soft in stretches, but it's not a distracting from the overall viewing experience. Better than I was expecting from Universal.
The DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track is effective, but when it wants to be. The Jackal is a quieter film than I remember from a dialogue perspective, and you've got to crank up the volume for extended periods. Coincidentally, it's more a dialogue-driven film to boot, and the levels seem to waffle between weak and not-so-weak. That said, when the Jackal's gun starts becoming a realization, the score goes through all channels during a weapons demo. During the assassination attempt, the subwoofer roars to life and shell casings spill out all around you. So when it gets going, The Jackal is a pretty good sound experience.
Universal goes the combo/flip disc route, with the Blu-ray disc on one side, and the standard definition copy (from whence the screenshots came) is on the other, with all the extras to boot.
Jones provides a commentary for the disc and he possesses good recollection on the production, from recalling where a shot was on the schedule to how he decided to pull the opening credits together. He talks about how he worked with the stars and what he wanted to accomplish with them, and remembers specific information about the other cast members as well, including the pregnancy of an actress who was in a scene for a brief moment. He also recalls some of the studio notes and some other external issues he dealt with during the filming. It's a solid track.
Moving along, you've got an eight-part examination of the making of the film (44:14) which looks at the adaptation and includes a pant load of on-set interviews with the cast and crew. They talk about their work in the film and how it differs from the 1973 version. They also share their thoughts on working with one another. There's even some deleted scenes (and an alternate ending) as part of this piece. Why they wouldn't break out the latter two things separately, I don't know. A series of stills comprising the production notes and cast and crew bibliographies follows, and the film's trailer (1:50) completes the disc.
The Jackal makes for an interesting middle, but a rather uninspired beginning and end. Technically the Blu-ray disc is a surprise (and worth the double-dip if you have the standard definition disc), and the supplements are more informative than I was expecting as well. Definitely worth renting with an eye towards purchase.

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When will my SQL Server Evaluation Edition expire?
The SQL Server Evaluation Edition is a great way to get a fully functional and free instance of SQL Server for learning and developing solutions. The edition has a built in expiry of 6 months from the time that you install it. I often install an Eval edition on a machine to set up a test or demo, and then 6 months later it comes as a complete surprise when it suddenly stops working.
Needless to say this can be mildly inconvenient, as it typically expires on the day you plan to demo it. It would be nice to get some kind warning.
This problem is exacerbated in the SQL Server virtual machine images in the Windows Azure gallery. While Azure VM's are in preview the SQL Server platform images are created with Evaluation edition, but the 6 month counter starts ticking when the VM is created rather than when you deploy it. This came to a head recently as a few months went by between platform image refreshes, so people deploying SQL VM images in Windows Azure were seeing them expire a few days later. See this thread for more details. Since then the SQL Server platform image has been refreshed so it won't be expiring for several months.
The problem with Azure VM's will go away soon as fully licensed pay-per-hour images will be available soon, and free trial offers will be available.
What happens when your SQL instance does expire? What are the options? Particularly if you've developed a working solution and want to put it into production?
One option is to purchase a license and enter the license key in SQL Server Installation Center->Maintenance->Upgrade License.
If you're using an Azure VM another option would be to migrate your application to a new VM.
One thing we've learned from this is that as long as time-bombed images are being used we need to be better at communicating and setting expectations about their expiration.
If you're running an Evaluation edition now, how can you tell when it's due to expire? One way is to run this query...
sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1;
sp_configure 'Agent XPs', 1;
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SELECT @instancename = CONVERT(sysname, SERVERPROPERTY('InstanceName'))
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SELECT @daysleft 'Number of days left'
That will give you an answer in days until expiry. As of today, the SQL Server gallery image I launched a few days ago has 122 days left, which gives me a few months to do my demos and then forget that it's going to expire. Hopefully by that time I'll have either upgraded it or started with a refreshed or pay per hour image.
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Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter has resumed on-field hitting after being shut down last month by left ankle soreness.
Jeter took 32 swings in batting practice Wednesday at the Yankees' minor league complex. The 38-year-old superstar also ran for the second consecutive day.
The Yankees captain hasn't played since appearing in a minor league spring training game as a designated hitter on March 23, when the ankle he broke in Game 1 of the ALCS last October bothered him while running.
While not going at full speed, Jeter looked smooth going three times from first to third and three times from third to first on the grass just behind the infield dirt. The 13-time All-Star also fielded 45 grounders at short, and threw to first base for the first time.
Jeter was placed on the disabled list March 31 and there's still no timetable on when he will be activated.
Outfielder Curtis Granderson, recovering from a broken right forearm, could resume throwing on Thursday. He had follow-up X-rays Tuesday.
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The slugger, who led New York with 43 homers last season, was hit by a pitch from Toronto's J.A. Happ in his first at-bat of spring training on Feb. 24. Granderson could rejoin the Yankees next month.
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2017 The DEWS Downton Motor Club will be celebrating the 70th year of Downton Engineering Works being associated with the Downton History. All being well the motor club will be affiliated to the BWSCA therefore this in turn will give all club members the benefit of other activities. The motor club is opening it's doors with an invitation for you to come along to this informal gathering with the hope of encouraging New members to come forward and join – all ages welcome , there will be a buffet laid on to enable everyone to sit & chat informally about the club & it's future . It's not necessary to even own a vehicle
I'm contemplating going along particularly as I will have a reasonably presentable road worthy Midas by then too. Anyone else in the 'Wessex general area' fancy going ? Let me know as they seem to have a buffet organised and would like to know numbers of people to cater for.


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In my previous posts where I examined the Big Picture I had formulated several principles to underpin my theories. Conjugation principle,Inversion Principle,Uncertainty Principle,Cluster Principle and so on. There is one principle of which I had till now held back. What is Clean Slate principle? In order to explain it let me point out from the night sky.
There are several billions of stars, light of which when added up must make the sky bright. Yet it does not. Supernovae of star sends materials helter-skelter across space creating new stars in its wake. Background radiation of the Big Bang still reaches us. With such persistence cosmic events leave their signature around. This being the case why we see the night still dark as though the light sent forth from stars is blotted out by an unseen hand? The sky, in a manner of speaking has become a clean slate.
Science explains this as due to the nature of universe expanding at a rate that starlight shall not make the night seen as day. The nature of Day is as distinct as Night is the exclusion of light is. Day and Night are distinctly apart. Nature of Truth as distinct from Falsehood is. In short we have to see in the Objective Lessons of Nature, what makes them valid. Nature as a mirror to Truth. Man makes truth of Nature, truth of Experience, and Truth of Action to justify himself. Absolute Value of Truth is not what he can demonstrate. Even so it is in context of Truth.
The Clean Slate Principle refers to Absolute certainties against which every finite value has to come up against. Thus we use our free will to explain the nature of evil. Do we not use sophistry to explain that God as Omniscient Being must have known evil beforehand? If He knows evil He cannot be Good? We weave our own ropes of reason to hang ourselves with.
In the analogy of night sky light supplied by various sources is still rendered as though these were null owing to the expanding sky. Similarly in the run off of march of events supplied by good and evil motives, consciousness of evil on God's part is negated by power and wisdom of God. He is not the conscience keeper of the evil one. Bad motives come from a different source than good motives that a man keeps and acts upon are in keeping with His commandments. So man who suffers like a wrongdoer for the good that he did out of good conscience is in His keeping. Clean Slate principle makes God free from any unfairness or partiality .
Is God partial? I may sound contradictory.God or Truth being absolute is impartial. Then if the righteous I mean those washed by the blood of Christ,-the manifestation of Love as collateral with Truth or Just draw from the Nature of Things and from the interplay of Wisdom and power do we say that God was unjust? Nature as mirror of God in wisdom and power creates what may seem to us miracles. Shall we accuse God of favoritism? Can eye accuse the body 'why I see evil?' Ear of the person has already lent itself to hear what smacks of evil, and the eye is drawn along. Had the body renewed itself to weigh things as they are and not be swayed to the side of evil around the person, ear and the eye would have had saved themselves from the bother. The existing order of Nature is like the body. A miracle is nature on an improbable mode from our rational point of view. God is not stooping Himself to be partial but wisdom and power operating in Nature manifest as a miracle.That is all.
Here is the mystery of Born Again experience and miracle in a nutshell. Though born again a believer,-who had tasted His lovingkindness in the way he could have a renewal it is in the ways things operate.Such a person may still backslide and sink deeper into sin. God was not fooled by his fall. God is freed from what one does with good motives or actively fall into sin on another occasion.
The Clean Slate principle states that we create evil, result of our finite nature. According to Cluster principle evil creates much more: misery is another byproduct. The Clean Slate Principle states that evil resulting from man's free will remains at finite level. Absolute value of Truth is undimmed by finiteness of truth we demonstrate.
God remains inviolate because of this principle.
God as Truth is not made any whit less because of truth as demonstrated by man.
It is in the nature of God, because God is Love, to exercise this principle. Though our sins be as scarlet the Clean Principle can render as white as snow, to use a Biblical expression. This principle is in conformity with conjugation principle.
PS. Day is distinct from Night. Light of the Sun makes Day and Night though littered with stars and visible to us, is still Night. In this connection let me point out some men due to some accidents in their biology may be effeminate or genetically feminine. Has God gone wrong? In His eyes they are as distinct as man from woman is. God looks at the soul that is according to the Clean Slate Principle makes man and woman, distinct and clean. To God there is no confusion as we may have.(this is an amplified version of my previous post dated 18Feruary,2010)


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Digital content provider Aspiro will try growing its unlimited-music service through Nordic newspapers and a European expansion, after losses grew despite a recent nine-figure fundraising.
The Oslo-based vendor says its music service WiMP will be offered through Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet and Danish daily Politiken.
Aftonbladet publisher Schibsted took 73.4 percent ownership of Aspiro this year for 340 million Swedish krona ($50.8 million) in a bid to inject paid streaming content in to its news business.


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Kids' headaches: Diagnosis difficult
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Headaches aren't only for adults. Kids get them, too. By the time children reach high school age, most have experienced at least one headache, according to the National Headache Foundation (NHF).
There are two basic types of headaches: primary headaches, in which the headache is the only symptom and, when treated, will stop; and secondary headaches, which are caused by another condition and don't usually go away until the condition is treated.
Primary headaches include tension-type and vascular, or migraine, headaches. Conditions that can cause headaches as one of their symptoms include dehydration, sleep deprivation, infections, head injury, meningitis, brain aneurysm and tumor. Fortunately, most headaches in kids are not caused by these problems, but by tension.
Your pediatrician can determine what kind of headache your child has. The doctor will need to talk to both you and your child to determine whether the headache has an emotional component. He or she may also do a neurological exam.
Tension-type headache
This is the most common type of headache in children, and the most likely causes are emotional upsets or stress. Your child may describe the pain as widespread or like a tight band around the head. This type of headache does not usually cause nausea and vomiting.
Tension headaches are almost always related to stressful situations at school, competition, family friction or excessive demands by parents. The doctor needs to also determine whether anxiety or depression may be present.
Vascular headaches
A migraine headache is one-sided and throbbing and is almost always accompanied by nausea and vomiting. Periodic vomiting without a headache may indicate that the child will develop migraines in later years. A child who has car or motion sickness, and who has a family history of migraines, for instance, will probably eventually develop migraines.
Fortunately, migraines disappear in the majority of children five to seven years after they appear. Research has shown that symptoms will have occurred in about a fourth of migraine sufferers before the age of 5 and in about half before the age of 20.
It is important to realize that migraine may occur after a head injury, especially after injury in sporting activities such as football and baseball. The child will usually recover fully over time.
Immediate care
These headaches require immediate medical attention:
- A headache in a child who has had a blow to the head or a recent history of head trauma . This is especially true if the headache is steadily getting worse.
A headache with fever , nausea or vomiting, confusion, stiff neck or skin rash .
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- After hitting record membership last year, credit unions are still piling on new customers.
Credit unions added 667,000 new members in the first quarter to a record 92.5 million, according to data released Friday by the National Credit Union Administration, which represents the nation's 7,019 federally-insured credit unions.
That quarterly gain in membership is 62% higher than the increase of 412,193 members in the previous quarter. And it's nearly half the increase seen for all of 2011, when credit unions added 1.4 million members. Membership refers to the number of new customers, not the number of accounts being opened.
Much of the growth in last year's membership occurred during the second half of the year, as nationwide campaigns encouraged customers to leave their big banks and open accounts at community banks and credit unions, which tend to incur fewer fees.
Among the catalysts for these campaigns was Bank of America's (BAC, Fortune 500) plan to impose a monthly fee for debit card use, which it scrapped after seeing the backlash from consumers.
In addition to record membership, credit unions' assets and net worth also hit record highs. Total assets, which include cash and deposits, grew by $40 billion, or 4%, to top $1 trillion for the first time, while industry net worth, which is the credit unions' total retained earnings, increased by 2% to $100 billion.
Credit union members have also been ramping up their saving so far this year. During the quarter, total savings among members increased $39 billion, or 5%, to $866 billion. That's more than four times the mere $8 billion increase in savings in the fourth quarter and compares to a $41 billion rise in savings for all of 2011.
Meanwhile, delinquencies and charge-offs declined during the quarter.
But as many members boosted their savings, others fell behind. Credit unions reported that 70,938 members filed for bankruptcy during the quarter, up 35% from the previous quarter.
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Dear Non-Pregnant Person,
I hope you find these guidelines helpful in your interactions with pregnant women as failing to follow them may result in serious physical harm.
If you are thinking, surely she doesn't mean me- then you should probably read this twice.
1) The appropriate response to a couple telling you they are having a baby is 'Congratulations!' with enthusiasm. Any other response makes you an *******.
2) Through the wonders of science, we now know that babies are made ONLY by the mother and father- not grandparents. Unless the baby is in your uterus or you are the man that helped put it there, you may not ever use the phrase 'my baby'.
3) On the same note, unless you made the baby as defined in 2, the pregnancy, birth and raising of the child are not about you. You do not have input. No one wants to hear your opinion unless they ask for it...
4) The body of a pregnant woman should be treated the same as any other body. You would not randomly touch someone's stomach if they were not pregnant, nor would you inquire into the condition of their uterus, cervix or how they plan to use their breasts. Pregnancy does not remove all traces of privacy from a woman.
5) Likewise, no woman wants to hear comments on her weight...ever. A pregnant woman does not find it flattering that you think she is about is pop, must be having twins, looks swollen or has gained weight in her face. Telling her she looks too small only makes her worry that she is somehow starving her baby. Making such comments invite her to critique your physical appearance and you may not act offended. The only acceptable comment on appearance is 'You look fabulous!'.
6) By the time we are 20-30 years old, most of us have picked up on the fact that the summer is hot. We are hot every summer when we are not pregnant. We don't need you to point out that we will be miserably hot before the baby comes.
7) There is a reason that tickets to Labor & Delivery are not yet sold on Ticketmaster. Childbirth is actually not a public event. It may sound crazy, but some women really do not relish the idea of their mother, MIL or a host of other family members seeing their bare butt and genitals. Also, some people simply feel like the birth of their child is a private and emotional moment to be shared only by the parents. You weren't invited to be there when the baby was created, you probably won't be invited to be there when it comes out either.
8) Like everything else in life, unless you receive an invitation, you are NOT invited. This includes doctor appointments, ultrasounds, labor, delivery, the hospital and the parents' home. You do not decide if you will be there for the birth or if you will move in with the new parents to 'help out'. If your assistance is desired, rest assured that you will be asked for it.
9) If you are asked to help after the birth, this means you should clean up the house, help with cooking meals, and generally stay out of the way. Holding the baby more than the parents, interfering with breastfeeding and sleeping schedules and making a woman who is still leaking fluid from multiple locations lift a finger in housework is not helping.
10) The only people entitled to time with the baby are the parents. Whether they choose to have you at the hospital for the birth or ask for you to wait three weeks to visit, appreciate that you are being given the privilege of seeing their child. Complaining or showing disappointment only encourages the parents to include you less.
3 comments:
- Emily said...
Hilarious! And I totally wish I had had that shirt when I was pg!
- August 3, 2009 at 10:51 AM
- Julie said...
9) If you are asked to help after the birth, this means you should clean up the house, help with cooking meals, and generally stay out of the way. Holding the baby more than the parents, interfering with breastfeeding and sleeping schedules and making a woman who is still leaking fluid from multiple locations lift a finger in housework is not helping. .....
Someone should have told my mother that... Not only did I still have to do ALL the housework (within days of having a c-section), but my Mom was mad at me for over a month because I held Jared more than she did.
Good grief!
- August 3, 2009 at 2:15 PM
- Michelle said...
I love that!
True story: week 2 after giving birth family (I wont say who) came to visit...well it may have been a month...I cant recall...anyway, I had to cook and clean for them. I couldnt believe it.
- August 4, 2009 at 12:02 PM


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Renee Zellweger plays a wheelchair-bound country music singer who sets out to meet the son she had long ago given up in her new film, "My Own Love Song," from French writer-director Olivier Dahan.
Though she's no stranger to singing on camera (and was married to Kenny Chesney and dated Jack White of the White Stripes), singing in this film presented new challenges.
"It's a little scary, cuz it's different material, when (Dahan) sent me Woody Guthrie's… "This Land Is Your Land" with the marching band and the whole thing, I thought, Oh, my God, how am I gonna do that?'" said Zellweger from the red carpet at Thursday's U.S. premiere. "And then he told me, Oh and Mr. Dylan is going to write a couple things, and you can sing those too – and its' like, OK… OK… Terrifying."
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SACRAMENTO, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 27, 2011) - e.Republic's Center for Digital Education and Converge Online today announced winners in the seventh annual Digital Community Colleges Survey. The survey documents advances made by community colleges in utilizing information technology and recognizes which colleges are providing a high level of service to their faculty, students, and communities as a result.
The survey looked at technology integration into college curriculum and campus life, documenting use of online admissions processes, distance education, technology training for students and faculty, campus security alerts, use of Web 2.0 social and collaborative capabilities as well as online tutoring and advisory services. Use of mobile devices was also a key indicator of success.
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The Little Giants (3-0) used a game-opening 18-play scoring drive to set the tone for Homecoming 2005, posting a 50-2 NCAC win over Earlham College (1-3).
Quarterback Russ Harbaugh connected on a 13-yard scoring pass to Eric Summers after the Little Giants worked 10:23 off the clock. The Little Giants were penalized twice for holding, but established dominance with the opening march. (See game photo album - click here!)
"We had a lot of penalties the whole game (10-85) and that's not what we want," Harbaugh said. "Some teams would get that many penalties and not be able to score. That was a good drive but we don't want penalties like that."
Harbaugh, who has thrown 9 touchdown passes in three games and hit on 21 of 28 passes Saturday, helped make plenty of Homecoming heroes hitting Mike Russell and Graham Nelson for scores.
Brandon Roop '06 scored two rushing TDs for the Little Giants.
"I was just following the big guys up front," Roop said. "They always stay on their man and make huge holes and I couldn't help it but to walk through and end into the end zone."
As the Little Giants built the big lead, Coach Chris Creighton freely substituted in the second half.
"This was a fund day for us for sure," Creighton said. "But you want to do it right with the other team; you want to try to play as many guys as you can. These games are always fun but sometimes they're frustrating as well."
The Wabash rushing game totaled 148 yards to go with Harbaugh's 262. Dustin Huff threw for 32 yards in the final quarter. Chris Ogden ran for 66 yards; Don Juan Brown rushed for 54. Shane Keffer scored a rushing touchdown in the fourth quarter to complement Roop's two TDs.
Adrian Pynenberg led the Little Giant defense with 7 tackles. Aaron Selby and Jared Lange each added 6. Thomas Bell contributed five stops for the Wabash defense which has yielded just 15 points through three games.
"We're playing all right. We're not making big mistakes," Harbaugh said of the 3-0 start. "We are making a lot of penalties that will hurt as when we get into the heart of our schedule. We're not turning the ball over and we're moving the ball really well. That speaks a lot to our line and the great receivers we have. That makes it all really easy."
Wabash travels to Ohio Wesleyan Saturday.
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Big Blue supporters, fans, coaches, cheerleaders and even members of the band met at the Maxwell House Hotel at 11 a.m. for a catered meal to honor the 17 member senior class.
The luncheon was hosted by George Plaster and TSU head coach Rod Reed, Director of Athletics Teresa Phillips and President Glenda Glover were on hand and each spoke about the student-athlete's accomplishments. They also wished them luck as Big Blue starts its season on Sept. 1 against Bethune-Cookman in the John Merritt Classic.
The event was part of a busy weekend for the TSU football program, a weekend that started with the John Merritt Press Conference on Thursday and will continue with Fan Day tomorrow at 3 p.m. in the Indoor Football Facility.
The 2013 senior Tigers are Tim Broughton, Deshawn Byrd, Kadeem Edwards, Vernon Frett, Jamin Godfrey,Marquaveus Jackson, Troy Jones, Demetrius Rhaney, Wilson Robinson, Wesley Samuels, Gregory Barksdale, Holt Claiborne, Antonio Harper, Michael Murphy, Andrew Taylor, David Van Dyke and Devin Wilson.
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I tried the following steps:
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2) Directed the resulting output of A to DORMQR.
I was expecting the last (n-m) columns of C should contain the orthonormal basis of the null space but does not seem so.
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Quiz question: What is the most important free speech ruling in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Quiz question: What is the most important free speech ruling in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court?
The best answer may well be New York Times v. Sullivan, decided 50 years ago this month. In that case, the court ruled, for the first time, that the First Amendment shields speakers and writers from libel suits.
The court's ruling has fundamentally affected not only our law but also our culture. Whenever you open a newspaper, visit a website or even do a Google search, the information that you see might well be a testimony to the enduring importance of New York Times v. Sullivan.
Not long after the case was decided, on March 9, 1964, the great free speech scholar Alexander Meiklejohn proclaimed that it was an occasion for "dancing in the streets." On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, the dancing has continued.
But amid the justified celebration, we should pay close attention to the dark side of New York Times v. Sullivan. While it is has granted indispensable breathing space for speakers, it has also created a continuing problem for public civility and for democratic self-government.
The case grew out of a libel action brought by L.B. Sullivan, a public official in Montgomery, Ala., whose responsibilities included supervision of the local police department. Sullivan complained about an advertisement, published by the New York Times, which objected to "an unprecedented wave of terror" against civil-rights demonstrators in Alabama.
To support that objection, the advertisement identified a serious of actions allegedly taken by Montgomery police and other officials against those demonstrators. Some of the allegations were false.
For example, the advertisement inaccurately stated that the police department had "ringed" the campus of the Alabama State College. It alleged, also inaccurately, that the police had bombed Martin Luther King's home. As the court acknowledged, "the police were not only not implicated in the bombings, but had made every effort to apprehend those who were."
In ruling that the free speech principle safeguards even defamatory statements, the court seized the high moral ground. It affirmed the "profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open." It added that public debate will inevitably "include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials."
But what about falsehoods? The court insisted that "erroneous statement is inevitable in free debate." It said that constitutional protection of falsehoods was necessary to provide "breathing space," even if those falsehoods were defamatory. If those criticizing public officials were compelled to guarantee the truth of their claims, the court argued, they would engage in self-censorship.
To prevent that self-censorship, the court produced its famous requirement of "actual malice" — which forces public officials to prove that anyone saying or publishing a falsehood did so knowingly or with "reckless disregard" of the truth. That standard sets an exceedingly high bar. Those who spread falsehoods often do so unknowingly, and terrible sloppiness need not count as recklessness.
In light of the court's ruling, critics usually do not have to worry about getting ensnared in an expensive libel suit if their target is a public official (a category that the court eventually broadened to "public figures," including entertainers and athletes). Even if you're negligent — that is, you should have known what you're saying was untrue and defamatory — you are likely to be protected.
When it comes to public figures, all sorts of false allegations are permissible, whether they involve birth certificates, drug abuse, sexual misconduct or income tax fraud. One result is that those who seek public office put their reputation at immediate risk.
One of the goals of the court's ruling was to protect self- government, but the effects on self-government are not all good. Talk show hosts, bloggers and users of social media can spread ugly falsehoods in an instant — exposing citizens to lies that may well cause them to look on their leaders with unjustified suspicion.
False accusations are hardly new. But New York Times v. Sullivan can claim at least some responsibility for adding to a climate of distrust and political polarization in the U.S.
True, the marketplace of ideas is open to those who seek to correct the record, but sometimes the truth arrives too late. As Jonathan Swift noted hundreds of years ago, "Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it."
Nonetheless, the court got the balance right in New York Times v. Sullivan: A free society cannot have "uninhibited, robust, and wide-open" debate without breathing space for falsehoods. But as we celebrate the court's ruling, we should be willing to excuse those who choose to sit out the dance.
Cass R. Sunstein, the Robert Walmsley university professor at Harvard Law School, is a Bloomberg View columnist. He is the author of two new books, "Why Nudge?" and "Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas," and is a former administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Follow him on Twitter at @CassSunstein.


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Below are the rules as often used in Mafia games, borrowed from numerous Moderators. Beware that any of these rules may change or fluctuate during game play, and you will be notified via Announcement in the game thread**
1. This game is moderated by me (Dustn64), I am the law. Whatever I say goes. If I make a mistake I'll do my best to fix it. All roles will be given out randomly.
2. Do not quote any PMs you receive from the Mod. The only things you may post (loosely paraphrasing) are your roles. Once the game has concluded, feel free to post the rest of your personal information.
3. If you forget your role, or you delete it, pm the mod .
4. All 'vote' and 'unvote' must be in bold and RED. If they are not, they will not be tallied. (I.E. Vote: AK Iceman)
5. Lynching requires a majority of the town vote, and once the majority has been reached any and all don't throw outs will not be counted.
6. Once your death scene has been posted, you are dead. You can no longer post anything revealing or of substance. Whining is alright, **Voices from beyond the grave** are alright, as long as nothing of substance is revealed.
7. You may vote 'no lynch' to end the day without a death.
8. The game will not be discussed outside this thread, unless your role specifically says you may do so.
9. Do not edit/delete previous posts. Whatever you say goes into historical record.
10. Day scenes I write will be fun and comical, don't read too far into them. No clues or game information will be hidden in the text.
11. Joking in the thread is fine, but don't let it get carried away and take over as spam.
12. Be attentive and active in the game. If I see you are not posting at all, I will prod all those who are inactive. If there is no timely response, you will be replaced.
13. The day will go until a Lynch or No lynch is reached.
14. The night will go until I get ALL night actions.
15. If you have any questions about whether you should or shouldn't do something, or just need some clarification, feel free to PM me.
16. Making the mod look like an idiot will result in mod kill.
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Night 1
Riggable- Newman (lyncher/survivor)
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Day 3
Illiad- Lowtalker (Mafia Framer)
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Crab- Jerry Seinfeld (doc)
Day 4
Cena- Soup Nazi (Godfather)
Night 5
Ga7- Doorman (SK)
Firth- Frank Castanza(skitzo)
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Denver, CO (SportsNetwork.com) - Javier Baez homered twice and Kyle Hendricks tossed eight solid innings as the Chicago Cubs defeated the Colorado Rockies, 6-2, in the rubber match of a three-game set on Thursday. Baez, who homered in his MLB debut on Tuesday, finished 3-for-4 with four RBI and two runs scored and Starlin Castro also homered for the Cubs, who earned their first series victory in Denver since sweeping a three-game set on Aug. 3-5, 2004. "I thought he had some really good approaches," said Cubs manager Rick Renteria. "He was able to put his bat on the ball and do some damage." Kyle Hendricks (3-1) surrendered just two runs on six hits and a walk with four strikeouts to earn the win. Justin Morneau had two hits, an RBI and a run scored and Corey Dickerson also drove in a run for Colorado, which has dropped six of its last seven. Yohan Flande (0-4) gave up four runs on seven hits and a walk across six frames in defeat. The Cubs opened the scoring in the second. Justin Ruggiano singled to left, moved to second on Welington Castillo's groundout and slid into home on Arismendy Alcantara's single to right. Chris Valaika singled to lead off the third and moved to second on Hendricks' groundout. Two batters later, Baez hit an RBI single to left and moved to second on Dickerson's fielding error. Hendricks retired the first nine batters before Charlie Blackmon's base hit to center opened the fourth. Blackmon took second on Josh Rutledge's flyout and scored on Morneau's double to deep left, making it a 2-1 game. Nolan Arenado's bloop hit landed in front of Castro at short, who misplayed the ball to allow runners on the corners. Flande left the runners stranded by striking out Carlos Gonzalez and inducing an inning-ending flyout from Dickerson. Baez and Castro led off the sixth by cranking back-to-back solo shots to left, giving the Cubs a 4-1 advantage. "They score with the home run," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. "If you keep them in the park, it makes it tougher on them. We weren't able to do that today." In the home half, Morneau singled and Gonzalez walked with two outs before Dickerson's line drive to center plated Morneau to get the Rockies within two. After Chris Coghlan walked to start the eighth, Baez smacked an 0-1 slider to right-center for his third home run of the series and a 6-2 lead. Game Notes The start of the game was delayed 39 minutes due to rain ... The Cubs won the season series against the Rockies, 5-2. It is their first series win against the Rockies since 2008 ... Colorado went 3-for-9 with runners in scoring position and left six men on base.
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Functions of the Museum
1. The functions of the Museum are:
|to develop and maintain a national collection of historical material
|to exhibit, or to make available for exhibition by others, historical material from the National Historical Collection or historical material that is otherwise in the possession of the Museum
|to exhibit material, whether in written form or in any other form, that relates to Australia's past, present and future
|from time to time as the occasion requires, to exhibit, by itself or in collaboration with others, in Australia or elsewhere, material, whether in written form or in any other form and whether relating to Australia or to a foreign country
|to conduct, arrange for, or assist in research into matters pertaining to Australian history
|to disseminate information relating to Australian history and information relating to the Museum and its functions
|to develop and implement sponsorship, marketing and other commercial activities relating to the Museum's functions.
2. The Museum shall use every endeavour to make the most advantageous use of the national collection in the national interest.
Powers of the Museum
1. Subject to this Act, the Museum has power to do all things necessary or convenient to be done for or in connection with the performance of its functions.
2. Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the powers of the Museum referred to in that subsection include power:
to purchase or take on hire, or to accept as a gift or on deposit or loan, historical material
|to lend or hire out or otherwise deal with (otherwise than by way of disposal) historical material
|to accept gifts, devises, bequests or assignments made to the Museum, whether on trust or otherwise, and whether unconditionally or subject to a condition and, if a gift, devise, bequest or assignment is accepted by the Museum on trust or subject to a condition, to act as trustee or to comply with the condition, as the case may be
|to collect, and make available (whether in writing or in any other form and whether by sale or otherwise), information relating to Australian history
|to make available (whether by sale or otherwise)reproductions, replicas or other representations (whether in writing or in any other form) of historical material
to make available (whether in writing or in any other form and whether by sale or otherwise) information relating to the Museum and its functions
|to occupy, use and control any land or building owned or held under lease by the Commonwealth and made available to the Museum under section 8
|to erect buildings
|to purchase or take on hire, or to accept as a gift or on deposit or loan, and to dispose of or otherwise deal with, furnishings, equipment and other goods
|to charge such fees and impose such charges (in addition to the charges fixed by regulations) as are reasonable in respect of services rendered by the Museum
|to raise money for the purposes of the Museum by appropriate means, having regard to the proper performance of the functions of the Museum
|to act as trustee of moneys or other property vested in the Museum on trust
to act on behalf of the Commonwealth or of an authority of the Commonwealth in the administration of a trust relating to historical material or related matters.
3. The Museum shall not dispose of historical material except in accordance with section 9 or 9A.
4. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, any money or other property held by the Museum upon trust or accepted by the Museum subject to a condition shall not be dealt with except in accordance with the obligations of the Museum as trustee of the trust or as the person who has accepted the money or other property subject to the condition, as the case may be.
5. Nothing in this Act requires the Museum to perform its functions or exercise its powers in relation to historical material that is owned or otherwise in the possession of an authority of the Commonwealth, being historical material that is used for the purposes of the authority.
Source: National Museum of Australia Act 1980


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What Price PC?
This story appears in the October 1997 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
The price tag on that brand-new Pentium II PC looks pretty tempting. In fact, you decide, you can fit the expense into your business's budget rather easily. But before you buy, answer this question: Have you considered its total cost of ownership (TCO)?
More than just the equipment's original cost, TCO looks at the big picture, taking into consideration information technology (IT) costs incurred throughout the life of your business. These costs include everything from technical support to training--even administrative expenses for procuring technology. Analyzing your equipment's TCO has become increasingly important because the additional costs you incur throughout the equipment's lifetime, especially when it comes to PCs, can add up to much more than the cash you laid out upfront.
Where The Money Goes
In the majority of cases, PCs make up the lion's share of a company's IT expenses. Years ago, when equipment was more centralized in the MIS department, it was easier to track and control these costs. But as computers migrated to the desktop, costs have decentralized, making it more difficult to get a handle on a business's TCO.
Where does all the money go? Surprisingly, capital costs for your business's hardware and software make up a fairly modest portion of your investment over time, says Bill Kirwin, vice president and research director for the Gartner Group, an IT research firm in Stamford, Connecticut. While it's always a good idea to negotiate the best deal you can with retailers and resellers, this isn't where the bulk of your IT costs come from. And even though businesses could be taking advantage of the savings from today's falling computer prices, many are choosing to spend more money in this area, buying bigger and faster PCs to stay on the cutting edge.
Technical support costs make up a substantial portion of TCO. According to the Gartner Group, the annual cost for software training, technical support and repair on a Windows 95 PC adds up to about $1,300 per user. Then there are administrative costs, which include purchasing technology, the labor costs of managing IT assets and developing policies for equipment usage.
But it's user operations that eat up the largest amount of your IT budget by far. What's even trickier is that these costs are difficult to quantify. They're those things that all employees do while sitting in front of a PC that sap their time, indirectly costing you money in lost productivity. These activities include time spent on PC management tasks, such as installing software, creating and moving files, and learning new technology. A big chunk of TCO comes from time wasted when the office's unofficial techie stands over an employee's shoulder offering PC advice. Plus, there's always the "futz factor," in which employees spend time on nonbusiness-related tasks, such as creating screen savers, sending personal e-mail and checking their horoscopes on the Web.
Beyond hardware and software, there's a number of additional costs associated with computer and high-tech equipment, which add to your TCO. These include expenses for printer ink and paper, software upgrades, fax transmission costs--even the electricity it takes to run PCs and keep your office cool, since they generate a fair amount of heat.
Trimming The Fat
While all these expenses may seem staggering, take heart. Many vendors are placing added emphasis on TCO and the ways their technologies can reduce it. Lexmark International, for instance, has printer management software that remotely identifies problems like low toner, which they claim can save companies an average of $734 per printer annually. Features like the Registry in Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system hope to reduce administrative costs by offering easy, centralized access to hardware and software configuration files. There are also new, inexpensive devices such as Net PCs aimed at shrinking your capital and system management costs, just as network computers do. (See September "Business Bytes.")
There are several other strategies you can implement to put a dent in your TCO. Since most technical support budgets are seriously underfunded, this is often a good place to start. First, look into system management tools that help your tech support staff do their jobs more efficiently, says Kirwin. These might include inventory configuration management software to easily gather detailed information about networked PCs or electronic software distribution products that allow you to install software over the entire network rather than on each individual PC. Remote system management tools can also drive down your tech support costs, allowing internal staff to diagnose PC problems from a central location or outside vendors to dial into a PC (with your permission), assess its condition and then fix the problem from afar.
You should also find ways to get the most use out of your tech support staff. Because most small businesses can't afford more than one, or even just one, full-time tech support person, consider hiring part-time help. In many small organizations that lack in-house staff, outsourcing certain technical support functions, such as remote tape backup or custom software development, may also make sense.
Take a closer look at your costs for procuring technology, as well. One way to decrease them is through electronic commerce. Technology vendors can lower your costs for procurement by setting up a system to handle purchasing and inventory management electronically. The downside is that this strategy locks you into using the same vendors. Keep in mind, however, that it's not very cost-efficient to always be calling around for the best price; the best strategy may be to choose one vendor and work with them to find ways to reduce your administrative costs.
When it comes to cutting costs, one of your first instincts may be to hold on to your PCs as long as you can, thinking the less money you spend on new technology, the better. In the long run, warn experts, keeping a PC too long actually raises your costs. Having several generations of hardware, software and operating systems increases the complexity of your PC environment, thus increasing your costs. Not only do you have to maintain technical expertise in older technologies, but you also have to find ways for older equipment to work with the new technologies and develop all your custom applications to support multiple environments.
According to the Gartner Group, upgrading from a Windows 3.x or DOS environment to a Windows 95, Windows NT or OS/2 operating system can reduce your annual costs by about $1,000. Current operating systems have improved memory management features, and their user interfaces are easier to learn, thus reducing employee training time and tech support.
The majority of new PCs are also Desktop Management Interface (DMI)-compliant. The DMI is a standard for remote management of desktop computers and server hardware. DMI-compliant machines communicate their requirements with a DMI management application, making it easier to diagnose and avoid problems. In the near future, don't be surprised if your machine senses its hard drive is going to fail in 48 hours and notifies a systems operator, who can switch out the failing drive before it blows. Technologies like these that forecast problems before they occur can save you money in both repairs and employee downtime.
Standardization is also key. Strive to make all hardware, applications and operating systems uniform in your business. Also, develop standard procedures for buying and retiring technology.
Finally, look at ways to improve employees' technology use. Although it's costly, make sure all personnel receive some type of formal computer training, whether through classroom or computer-based instruction. Because the majority of tech support is usually supplied by co-workers--leading to frequent misdiagnoses of problems and, ultimately, wasted time--you should provide the power users in your office with the training, tools and technology they need to assist other employees. Make sure your "tech support staff" has access to help-desk information. Consider cutting back a few of their responsibilities to make their tech support role an official part of their job descriptions. Because studies show that employees waste one hour a week on personal tasks on their computers (most likely a conservative estimate), be sure to establish policies for the appropriate use of computer equipment, software and the Internet.
On The Flip Side
With all the recent emphasis on TCO, some believe the real value new technologies bring to businesses is being left behind. When considering a new technology, your first concern shouldn't be cost savings but what the equipment can bring to your business, says John MacGilvary, chief analyst with Datapro Information Services Group, an information technology research and analysis firm in Delran, New Jersey. Buy new technology because it enables you to do something you couldn't do before or because it gives your business added flexibility or a competitive edge. In fact, the best solutions may not be the cheapest. Consider the case of the notebook computer. True, they're much more expensive to implement than desktop computers. But the high initial costs often pale in comparison to the benefits companies receive: added flexibility and increased productivity.
Once you've purchased the right technology, you can truly begin to find effective ways to trim your TCO. What it all boils down to is looking beyond the typical information systems areas to find the waste. Then, chances are the opportunities to cut TCO will land right in your lap.
Contact Sources
Datapro, (800) 328-2776, http://www.datapro.com
Gartner Group, 56 Top Gallant Rd., Stamford, CT 06904, (203) 964-0096
Lexmark International Inc., 740 New Circle Rd. N.W., Lexington, KY 40550, http://www.lexmark.com


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WINDSOR - Queen Elizabeth II has issued a royal decree stating that the coming of William's and Kate's spawn shall hurry the hell up and get here so that her holiday plans don't get mucked up.
Although Her Majesty has been doing the talking, it is believed that the Duke of Edinburgh has been twisting her ear.
Recently, His Royal Highness was overheard complaining: "Every tosser knows that Kuoni holiday packages are 100% down and no money back if you cancel."
Due to constraints in the Royal Family's holiday budget, a late due date could mean having to postpone until next year, unless a super last-minute sale were to materialize.
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Ben Truslow is part of a great group of young riders who are starting to change the landscape of America motorcycle [road racing. In a tragic accident at the April 2012 WERA races in Las Vegas, Ben's dream of becoming the next Ben Spies have were put on hold. Now Ben must show his great courage in the arduous recovery process he has ahead of him. His dream has crashed just like the very thing that saved his life: his helmet.
Ben was in second place fighting for the lead with another young talent (Tyler Linders) during the race when something went array as it can in any kind of racing. Ben's front wheel made contact with Tyler's rear sending him and his bike about 25 feet up in the air near the end of the back straight. He landed mainly on his head and was rushed by ambulance to Las Vegas Trauma Center where an extraordinary team of doctors and nurses performed surgery. This left Ben in critical condition, and in a coma for more than a week as everyone waited to see if he would survive.
Ben's story is one of courage and of hope. Since the accident "Go Ben" signs have appeared on Facebook from friends, classmates, family, and the entire racing community. This outpouring of support has helped Ben and his family throughout his recovery so far. He is now at the Craig rehabilitation hospital making excellent progress.
Lately, young riders have been hurt at unacceptable levels, which raises the question: Can having the right gear save your life? The answer is YES! To celebrate Ben Truslow recovery, Nexx helmets, along with the Truslow family, are launching a fundraiser campaign to benefit Ben's favorite charity (Pediatrics Brain Tumor Foundation - Ride for Kids) with a commemorative limited edition Ben Truslow replica helmet. This will help ben raise money fo[r this worthy foundation, and also raise the awareness that having a good helmet, appropriate clothing and safe equipment not only make your ride more enjoyable, but more importantly can be the difference between living or dying.
The replica helmets will be launched at Laguna Seca during the MotoGP weekend and can be purchased at the NEXX booth. Only 28 helmets will be issued, featuring Ben's favorite color (green), his number (28) and his motif (a phoenix). They will be individually numbered and purchasers will also get a cool photo with Ben himself, who is planning to be at the track for the first time since his accident. If you are interested in supporting this worthy cause, please contact the great people from NEXX helmets at 808-561-8442 and they will be happy to help and/or answer any questions you may have.