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-Event will take place in Polith System.
-Dreadnaught will be in the system, but each side must find it first.
-You will be running Maintenance Droids from Zaltin Sunrise Station in Polith to the Dreadnaught.
-You must run 1500 droids total to the dread to win, but may not transport more than 500 droids at a time (so 3 total dropoffs).
-You may use any size transport but we will check that you only have 500 droids max in your cargo.
-GE pilots will be permitted to respawn from Fondor,
-NR/Corsec pilots will be allowed to respawn from Yag'Dhul.
-Hutt Pilots may respawn form the pirate base in Polith.
-Non-capital ships have unlimited respawns.
-Capital ships restricted to 1 Frigate + 2 Corvettes per side.
-Capital ships may not respawn.
-Winning side wins the Dread. (70 million value)
-Losing sides will receive a consolation prize of 14 million credits.
The Katana Dreadnaught, on record as the Phaeton, has arrived in Polith. A distress beacon is activated almost immediately upon arrival. Patrols of NR and GE pilots pick up on the signal, reporting the finding back to their respective command structures. Both commands order the immediate capture of the dreadnaught, dispatching (A frigate and two corvettes) to assist.
Win conditions:
NR Win: The New Republic must ship 300 "New Republic Soldiers" commodity to the Katana dreadnaught. Cargo requests will only be accepted after the transport has been stationary for 5 seconds.
GE Win: The Imperial Remnant must ship 300 "Stormtroopers" commodity to the Katana dreadnaught. Cargo requests will only be accepted after the transport has been stationary for 5 seconds.
NR Win: Dreadnaught awarded to faction, 7 Million credits contributed to faction bank.
GE Win: Dreadnaught awarded to faction, 7 Million credits contributed to faction bank.
I will be adapting the rules ever so slightly for the duration of the event. Any ships that participate in the event are subject to these rules and regulations, and any breaches will result in sanctions however I deem necessary.
-There is a restriction on Capital ships for this event. Failure to adhere to this restriction will result in sanctions of my choosing.
-The Capital ship respawn cost will be waived for this event. Any cap ship deaths in this will be covered.
-Fighter respawns are allowed.
-Capital ships may not re-log to rejoin the fight.
-RP is required. Failure to do so may result in the event being cut short.
-ooRP messages should be kept to a minimum in system chat. If you absolutely must say something, you should open your message with "//"
Additional notes
This is hopefully an improvement on my previous event. I have taken into account the pros and cons of the previous event, and am hoping this will prove more entertaining for all sides involved. Whilst this event is focused on the major powers, anyone is welcome to create an NR/GE character and join with their favourite fighter!
Event Date
THIS EVENT IS (provisionally) SET FOR SATURDAY 4TH MARCH 2017, AT 2000 GMT


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Gov. Rick Scott not likely to extend early voting hours
Citing long lines, a former Miami Beach state senator, the Florida Democratic Party and the League of Women Voters of Florida urged Gov. Rick Scott on Thursday to extend early voting.
But don't expect the effort to go anywhere.
Top Republican officials in Tallahassee said Thursday an extension isn't needed. And in Miami-Dade, the county with the longest lines, the office of Mayor Carlos Gimenez, a Republican who appoints the elections supervisor, said he has no plans to ask the governor for more time.
The likely result: more long lines for early voters and long lines for Election Day voters on Tuesday.
Other early glitches have been reported, too. Some Broward voters have seen delays in receiving their absentee ballots; the county elections supervisor's office says every voter who has reported a missing ballot has been mailed another one.
One Broward voter encountered an unexpected wrinkle: She was purged from the voting rolls because she hadn't voted in so long and because she didn't respond to certified mail that warned her she would be removed because she had been so inactive, according to the elections office.
But the focus remained on in-person early voting, where voters are still facing three-hour waits at some Miami-Dade polling sites.
More than 3 million Floridians had voted early or by mail through Wednesday evening. Democrats lead in early voting, while Republicans hold the edge in absentee voting.
Between the first day of early voting Saturday and Wednesday, Broward averaged more than 28,400 voters a day. Miami-Dade averaged more than 26,300.
Among the early voters Thursday was Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade, who drew a crowd when he cast his ballot at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center in downtown Miami.
But he didn't have to wait in the hour-long line. He had a proxy stand in his stead, as allowed under election rules.
Former state Sen. Dan Gelber, a Democrat who lost a bid for attorney general two years ago, asked Scott on Thursday to expand the early-voting period, which ends at 7 p.m. Saturday, to include Sunday.
"In parts of Florida many citizens — including veterans and seniors — have had to wait for as many as 5 hours to simply express the most fundamental right guaranteed to them in a democracy," Gelber wrote in the letter Thursday morning.
Florida Democratic Party Chairman Rod Smith echoed Gelber's request in a statement soon after. And Deirdre Macnab, president of the League of Women Voters, sent Scott a letter Thursday afternoon asking him to allow Sunday voting in counties with "high voter traffic."
The delays, Macnab wrote, have resulted "from an increase in the number of registered voters since 2008, reductions in the number of days available to early vote and the unprecedented length of this year's ballot..." The Miami-Dade ballot is 10 pages long.
Scott signed a state law last year reducing the number of early-voting days to eight from 14 and doing away with early voting on the Sunday before Election Day. The new law guarantees a Sunday of early voting and allows for up to 12 hours of early voting a day, for a total of 96 hours. Miami-Dade is already meeting that cap.
Before the League weighed in, Republicans pushed back against what they described as a partisan attack by Democrats, who tend to vote early in higher numbers than the GOP, which prefers voting by mail using absentee ballots.
"Florida has a law in regard to early voting — this law provides for 96 hours of operation for early voting locations, the exact same amount of hours as 2008," Mike Grissom, executive director of the Republican Party of Florida, said in a statement. "That same law was approved by President Obama's Department of Justice. The fact is simple as this: more Floridians have cast a ballot as of 5 days out than in 2008. For one side to demand that we break the law because they feel like they are losing is wrong."
The actual number of early-voting hours in 2008 was not 96 hours but 120 hours. Former Gov. Charlie Crist, then a Republican, issued an executive order expanding the voting period after seeing long lines at the polls.
Crist, now an independent campaigning for Democratic President Barack Obama, made an appearance in Miami Gardens on Wednesday and said Scott, who supports Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, should extend voting hours. Bumping up early voting to the 120 hours offered in 2008 would require polls to open Sunday and Monday.
At least one elections supervisor would usually have to request to extend voting hours for the governor to act.
Scott did not weigh in Thursday. Last week, he told reporters at a news conference that he would wait to evaluate how voting goes before he decides to expand early voting. On Thursday, Scott's office referred early-voting questions to his secretary of state, who oversees the division of elections.
"The State has early voting laws in place to increase opportunities for voter participation, and supervisors of elections report it is going well," Chris Cate, an elections division spokesman, said in a statement. "Any voter in line when the polls close — during early voting and on Election Day — will be allowed to cast a ballot."
But Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, a Republican who helped to kick off a two-day GOP bus tour promoting early voting, said he saw no reason to extend early voting times.
"There's no unusual circumstances," Putnam said. "There's no weather-related events. There's nothing out there in the state of Florida right now that would create the basis for an emergency order for the governor to produce."
Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll, who joined Putnam on the eight-city bus tour, also said she saw no reason to extend early voting, but she emphasized she could not speak for the governor.
"We still have days to vote. It's not the end yet, and we certainly have election day as well, that people can turn out and vote," she said.
And state Sen. Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, the incoming Senate president, scoffed at the notion that Democrats were complaining about how long the lines are at early voting sites.
"Aren't these the same people who were running around the state saying the changes to early voting amounted to voter suppression?" Gaetz said. "So now we're seeing a historically high level of turnout, and they're complaining."
Miami Herald political writer Marc Caputo and Tampa Bay Times reporter Michael Van Sickler contributed to this report.


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Last night I attended the Barcelona Design Week event. The first night kicked off with a round table discussion about design management and speakers of sexy companies such as Google, Vodafone and Lékéu shared their opinions on the importance of design for their companies.
The fourth speaker was Prashanth Padmanabhan, product manager for human capital management software at SAP. He was the last to present himself and started with an apology that his products weren´t as exciting as those of the other speakers . He went as far as saying that the software that SAP produces is so boring that actually you want to minimize the time interacting with the software!
This made me smile because I can relate to this. In general most business applications are not much fun to use. Is this because business applications are per definition boring as they are used to execute work? I don´t buy this. For the work I´m doing, I use Adobe Photoshop a lot and I truly enjoy it. A pilot probably enjoys flying a plane and I cannot imagine cooks that do not like their knives and pots.
So what makes most business software so tedious to use that it can cause mental weariness? Here are a number of factors that come into mind when you think of "boring":
- Impersonal: the software does not seem to care about you and does not want to adapt to you
- Arrogant: the system treats you as if it´s your fault when things go wrong
- Technology driven, not human: yes, the software runs on an application server, pulls records from a database using SQL and is written in Java but guess what, I do not care!
- Fear of failure: the application does not give me confidence. I´m afraid of doing the wrong thing, losing data or looking like a fool to my colleagues
- Does not speak the user´s language: why do I have to talk the system´s language? Who´s in charge here? Hal? Hal?
- Hard to learn: unless my boss lets me do a one week course, it will be very hard to get to know the system
- Gives information you don´t need: reminds me of the Windows XP message: "You have unused icons on your desktop"
- Does not answer your questions: I´m sure the answer sits somewhere in the system, I just don´t know how to get it out
- Inefficient: do I really have to do all this to complete my task?
- Visually not pleasing: only moms like to look at ugly babies
At Openbravo we realized this a while ago and since then we have been working hard to improve the user experience and with our upcoming 3.0 release our users can enjoy a whole bunch of usability enhancements that will make working with our software much easier and perhaps even enjoyable.
Later I had a chat with Prashanth about his remark and he explained that SAP is also aware of this and that they are going to invest heavily in the end-user´s experience, rather than designing for decision makers who buy the software.
This is all good news. If we, as software designers, point and keep our focus on the end users, everybody will benefit. Our users will enjoy their work more, they will be more productive and will have more time left for creative and interesting tasks. The companies that employ them will see less employee turnover, more happy faces, less sick days, more employee-led innovation and will become more profitable at the end of the day.


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Situation Room
Proposed Canon
The Situation Room, also known as a War Room and a Battle Room is essentially the primary command center for a side's armies. It is typically used by the Ruler and their Chief Warlord (if the Warlord isn't deployed in the field) for keeping track of a battle using figurines representing their own troops and the known positions of enemy forces like a table-top strategy game. When a ruler doesn't have a Thinkamancer, it is typically here that they issue orders via Natural Thinkamancy to the field.
The situation room is typically located within the Tower section of the Garrison in a side's capital, though if the capital has a palace it's may be located in there. A war room is not necessarily a specific room of its own. It is common for an office to be used for the purpose.
The war room is where warlords typically pop, though under unusual circumstances, casters can pop there too as Fate decrees.
Gobwin Knob
It is located in the Tower of Efdup. In the original city of Gobwin Knob, it held the Eyemancy table until the casters were separated and is the setting for much of the dialogue and strategy portions of the Gobwin Knob side of the first book. Its original design was a mostly empty, large plain stone dome with etchings of the Titans on the ceiling.Erf-b1-p045-p4
Gobwin Knob's original Garrison Tower was destroyedErf-b1-p132 and rebuilt. The new design is a large square room featuring lavish red carpet, a strategy table built something like a snooker table, stone columns decorated with coiled Dwagons and wooden furniture, all of which is heavily inlaid with gold.Erf-b2-p1-p5
Transylvito's situation room is set up similar to their throne room with a raised bench for the King and his Thinkamancer.book-2-–-text-updates-003 The positions of the figures on the table are moved by Dolls directed by the Thinkamancer.
Ansom has described Gobwin Knob's Situation Room as "sparse" compared to Jetstone's but no actual detail is given.Erf-b1.5-p042


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Per Zoot serves Italian sandwiches out of a little white school bus. Sandwiches are made on a tigelle, a thick Italian halved biscuit.
The vegetarian sandwich was roasted eggplant, red onion, asparagus and parmesan cheese. The eggplant had excellent texture and displayed sweet flavors balanced by smoke. It came with a side of green beans.
The sandwich at Per Zoot was fairly priced. I ended up eating two sandwiches in order to make a satisfying meal but spent only $10.
The bus looks great. It's red and white with Cupid worked into the design.


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Dodson doesn't come across like a bruiser. He's like a ripped teddy bear, with a smile wider than his face. In the cage, he's blindingly fast and acrobatic—he earned his nickname by back-flipping out of a takedown attempt—with knockout power in his hands that is rare in the lighter weight classes.
"I'll try and get that first title. If I can't successfully get that first one I'll have to go back to the drawing board. But I don't see that happening."
Discussing your third title before you've even won your first … is that crazy talk? Well, yeah. But then, we're talking about people who allow themselves to be locked inside of a cage with another trained fighter for the express purpose of determining who can remain conscious the longest. This is a sport that belongs to those who harbor the unwavering belief that they are the best, that no mortal can stop them, and to consider otherwise is beyond the imagination of most elite cage fighters.
While Dodson has three titles in mind, Cerrone doesn't seem overly concerned with winning one, despite the fact that beating Pettis will put him near the front of the line for a title shot. This may sound like lack of motivation, but for Cerrone, simply fighting is its own reward. And though he isn't concerned with the big picture, he turns into a cold-blooded killer in the cage: a controlled fury of redneck-zen poetry, blistering kicks, lighting submissions and the joy of pain.
While he loves to fight, Cerrone will take his adrenaline fix anywhere he can get it. The former pro rodeo rider has not hidden his ambition to become a professional wakeboarder, even while he pursues his MMA career. These plans are unwelcome to UFC brass, who saw an unprecedented number of fighters getting injured in 2012. While none of these injuries were attributed to wakeboarding (or bull riding), a motorcycle accident suffered by UFC Featherweight champ Jose Aldo has prompted the UFC to include a clause in new fighter contracts that forbids certain dangerous activities.
It's safe to say that Cerrone, who has a barn full of motorcycles and four wheelers, has yet to sign onto this. When he was scheduled to fight in just over a week's time, Cerrone advised the Alibi, "If you're not living, I don't know what you're doing. I'm going snowboarding this weekend."
Turns out he went rock climbing instead, to the public chagrin of UFC president Dana White, who pouted about it on Twitter. Coach Greg Jackson may not have been thrilled either, having commented on other occasions that the hardest part of coaching Cerrone is keeping him alive between fights. Coach Mike Winkeljohn told me once about a bad kick to the head that Cerrone had once sustained from his horse.
Dodson, on the other hand, prefers to keep his dangerous activities in the cage. He won't even fist bump his fellow fighters, out of fear of damaging his valuable hands. But when those hands are wrapped and the gloves are on, Dodson has no problem sparring with fighters a foot taller and 150 lbs heavier, including UFC Light Heavyweight champ Jon Jones on occasion. Those sessions didn't go well for "the Magician," but not because of what you may think.
"I used to mess around with [Jones]," Dodson told the Alibi. "But now he just wants to steal my moves. 'Show me this, show me that.'"
On Saturday, Dodson will look to show all of us his moves, as he takes them to the biggest stage his sport has to offer.


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The Church in Africa
An epic conflict is raging through-out Africa. It is the battle for the soul of a continent. Animism, communism, Islam, and Christianity are locked in a war of worldviews. In some countries this conflict is visible and physical. Tens …Read More
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Dr. Peter Hammond is the missionary director of Frontline Fellowship. He has pioneered evangelistic missions and established Christian schools and Bible colleges throughout Africa, particularly in Sudan.


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Ancient Aliens - Season One
Is it possible that intelligent life forms visited Earth thousands of years ago, bringing with them technology that drastically affected the course of history and mans own development?
Presented in the 1968 bestselling book Chariots of the Gods, by Erich von Daniken, the theory of ancient aliens rocked peoples beliefs in mankinds progress. Ancient cave drawings of strange creatures, remains of landing strips in Peru, and Indian texts that describe the flying machines of the gods were just a few of the odd archaeological artifacts cited by von Daniken as proof that ancient astronauts were well known to our ancestors.
Produced with the exclusive cooperation of von Daniken himself, ANCIENT ALIENS launches all-new expeditions to seek out and evaluate this evidence, with a concentration on discoveries of the last 30 years, including unusual DNA findings on mans evolution and newly decoded artifacts from Egypt to Syria to South America. It is a balanced investigation into a theory some believe cannot be true, but many agree cannot be ignored.
Includes all five revealing episodes.
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Madonna Pays Tribute to Warsaw Uprising in New Concert Footage
In Madonna's latest tour stop in Warsaw, Poland on Aug. 1, the singer aired a "World War II-era" newsreel at the beginning of her set depicting the 1944 anti-Nazi Warsaw Uprising to mark the 68th anniversary of the historic event. The two-and-a-half minute newsreel was ultimately met with thunderous applause.
Originally, an online petition started by a group of young Catholics called the Youth Crusade, and signed by 54,000 people, surfaced, asking for the concert to be called off because they were afraid Madonna's concert would interfere "with the Polish capital's annual World War II commemoration of the doomed uprising against the city's Nazi's occupiers."
"August 1 is a day of remembrance in Poland. We pay our respects to those who survived and those who perished in the uprising. We won't allow the desecration of our hallowed symbols," read the petition.
Since embarking on her MDNA tour overseas, Madonna has had a few questionable moments: from bringing firearms on stage, to using swastikas in her set, to upsetting French fans with a short concert, her Madgesty hasn't been on the receiving end of critical acclaim. But with the latest stunt during her show, she may have finally found her niche.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Joe Sousa, former head coach of MIT's women's cross country and outdoor track and field teams, passed away on June 8 after a valiant battle with pancreatic cancer. He began his seven-year tenure at MIT in 1991 with the cross country program and led the outdoor track and field team in its inaugural varsity season the following spring.
The 1995 New England Women's 8 Conference (NEW 8) Cross Country Coach of the Year, Sousa led the Engineers to three consecutive runner-up finishes at the conference championship meet. His athletes recorded a trio of NEW 8 individual champion titles and Runner of the Year honors in addition to 11 All-Conference selections and two Rookie of the Year awards.
Sousa guided the Cardinal and Gray to then-Institute best 11th-place finishes at the 1994 and 1995 NCAA New England Division III Regional Championship, while seven athletes collected All-New England accolades. He also produced the program's first NCAA Championship individual qualifier and All-America recipient in Janis Eisenberg.
Under Sousa's tutelage, the outdoor track and field program posted a pair of third-place finishes at the NEW 8 Championship and registered 10 event victories. MIT totaled seven top-five individual performances at the New England Division III Championship, including five runners-up. At the All-New England Championship in 1998, Lila French captured second place in the pole vault, one year after becoming the first MIT woman to compete in the event. As a testament to his development of the program, several of the records set during his career continue to be among the top-10 performances in Institute history.
"What Joe brought to his athletes was a genuine concern about the person he was coaching, not just the product on the track or in the field," said Halston Taylor, MIT's current Director of Cross Country and Track and Field. "Joe wanted his athletes to love life and the sport of track and field. Those who he coached were touched in a very special way and will remember him always for what he brought to their lives as student-athletes. Joe was a great colleague and a true friend."
A wake will be held on Tuesday, June 14 at the Brown and Hickey Funeral Home (36 Trapelo Road, Belmont, Mass.) from 4:00-8:00 p.m., with the funeral service occurring the next day at St. Anthony's Church (400 Cardinal Medeiros Avenue, Cambridge, Mass.) at 9:00 a.m.


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"Maybe we all get dildos and silicone vaginas to practice on," I tell my girlfriend as we walk the final blocks to our date night: a combination blowjob/cunnilingus class at the sex shop Babeland. She seems taken aback by the idea. "I'm joking," I say, but I'm still a little hopeful.
Babeland is a sex shop, but we we're not hit with racks of floppy dildos and rubber fists as soon as we walk in. Most of the sex toys are minimalist, modern, and don't look like sex toys — you could probably leave a lot of them out on your coffee table without a guest even realizing what they are. I could run into someone I know here and it wouldn't be awkward.
The class itself, "The Art of Oral Sex," is pretty much Oral Sex 101, but while we've both had oral sex — with each other no less! — we've never taken a class about it. Our two female teachers (who apparently teach all the classes, most of Babeland's stock is geared towards women), start by walking us through what their talking points are for the evening: communication, manual stimulation, oral and anal.
There are about 20 people in the class, mostly couples. For some reason, I expected to walk into a tittering bachelorette party, but everyone is taking it so seriously they're just short of getting out notebooks. A couple in their 40s eagerly await the class, the man wearing a Samuel L. Jackson hat that he doesn't take off the whole time. Otherwise everyone's in their 20s or maybe early 30s. Most surprisingly, a few people came alone. As someone who would feel like a creep showing up at a cunnilingus class by myself, I salute these people. They really pulled it off.
"Talk like a sportscaster," suggests the instructor. "Say you're going to do X. Do X. Then say what you just did." At this, she does a pretty good mock announcer voice and describes a hypothetical finger-in-anus situation as an example, which makes the whole class giggle and nod in agreement. I realize they're using their own oral strategy on us (communicating to eliminate surprises) and it is totally working. One butthole joke and we're putty.
I'm warming up to the whole situation despite the use of phrases like "throwing up on a dick" (in regard to why they don't recommend using numbing spray in your mouth), explicit use of an anatomically correct giant vagina and the instructor's enthusiastic dildo blowjob demonstrations. But just as I'm feeling like this whole thing is way less awkward than I thought it would be, I look over at my girlfriend. She's gone very quiet. Her only quote of the evening has been to tell me, "You're doing that wrong, idiot," much to the delight of the middle-aged woman next to us, when I tried to form a rudimentary hand vagina (just a C-shape with my hand, as far as I could tell) to practice licking.
After a break for much-needed Prosecco, we jump right back into oral sex and anilingus. They explain that despite how different they look, our organs are very similar. The head of the penis and the clitoris start out as the same tissue in the womb, for example. The prostate and g-spot are also nearly identical. We don't get fake genitals to practice on, but we do get lollipops, and the other pupils are insistent on getting their favorite flavors (chocolate and blueberry), so much so that only cherry and pomegranate are options by the time the bowl gets to us. They show us a few ways to use your tongue — flat, pointed, slow circles — and ask us to demonstrate on the lollipop. I hear a few people just bite into theirs like IDGAF, while the rest of us nervously tongue our pops. Meanwhile, the instructor is going to town on a dildo, making all of our reservations about licking lollipops look tame in comparison.
The learning doesn't stop there. We move on to the Q&A; portion of the evening. Turns out, "you can't stretch out your vagina or asshole, they're muscles." One woman who came by herself (no pun intended) asks what to do if her gums keep getting cut up during oral and everyone visibly judges her a little bit, because is she blowing a robot? Another woman raises her hand to ask if butt plugs can go inside a man's anus. Her husband, presumably the man whose anus will receive her butt plugs, squeezes her hand as she talks. It really does bring us closer.
By the end of it, even my girlfriend seems less on edge. When we leave, she's excited about our only purchase — massage stones — and there's a lot of, "Did you see how into blowing the dildo she was?" and, "I can't believe that woman asked about her husbands butt!" talk. Maybe it's the generous glass of Prosecco, but the conversation we have on the train ride home is vastly more interesting than after we got burritos and caught the 9 p.m. of Non-Stop, and I feel like our relationship is better for it. That's a solid date night.
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In the inky cloak of florescent lighting, things keep disappearing from your desk. First it was a pen. Then a pencil. Then a sandwich. Then your mouse. Assuming you aren't taking these things home with you, there's office theft abounding. But these crimes are too small to call the police - you need to call a mini Batman! And what better way to summon Mini Batman than with this Mini Batman Bat-Signal.
The Mini Batman Bat-Signal is exactly what it sounds like: it's a tiny version of the one Commissioner Gordon uses to summon the Dark Knight. It's got an on/off switch (for when you don't need to summon anyone) and arrives in a fun little gift box. Oh, and there's also a tiny book inside giving you a smattering of info on Batman, his tech, his enemies, etc. Basically, if you like Batman or know someone who does, this Mini Batman Bat-Signal makes a great gift. We asked Batman - he said you can give a gift to yourself. ZZONK! POW! BIFF!
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In the above video, Jonathan Wong, Sr. Product Manager at RIM, shows how to turn your BlackBerry PlayBook tablet into a desktop workstation with Citrix Receiver by simply connecting your BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to a Bluetooth mouse, keyboard and larger display. Get full desktop functionality, all powered by the powerful and portable BlackBerry PlayBook.
Have you implemented this feature? Let us know about any issues or concerns in the comments below!


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Tamoxifen after Mastectomy
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I had a mastectomy at age 36. The pathology report indicated the presence of both DCIS and LCIS. No lymph node involvement was seen and the estrogen receptor status was negative, so I had no further treatment.
Recently, at age 49, I was diagnosed with invasive ductal cancer of my other remaining breast and had a second mastectomy. There was no lymph node involvement, but this cancer was estrogen receptor positive. My oncologist recommends I take Tamoxifen as I am premenopausal. I read that Tamoxifen helps prevent recurrent breast cancer, but how would this benefit me, since I have already had both breasts removed and no lymph node involvement?
Carolyn Vachani RN, MSN, AOCN, OncoLink's Nurse Educator, responds:
It sounds like you already know that Tamoxifen decreases the chances of developing a new breast cancer, recurrence of an old breast cancer, or spread of cancer to distant sites (i.e. metastatic cancer). Even thought your breast tissue has been removed, cancer can still recur in that area or in other locations. For example, we can see it reappear along the surgical scar line (called a chest wall recurrence) or in another area (bone, liver, lung, etc).
Even when we think all of the cancer cells are gone, there may be stray cells that we cannot see on scans or exams. We know this because research has shown that without further treatment after surgery (i.e. chemotherapy, hormone therapy or radiation therapy), some cancers will return. We can't yet predict exactly which cancers will recur and which will not, but Tamoxifen is one way to help eliminate those stray cells and prevent the cancer from returning.


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Retail Store Manager - Chiswick
- Recruiter
- O2 (Telefónica UK)
- Location
- Chiswick
- Salary
- £25,000 - £31,000 per annum, Benefits: bonus + commission
- Posted
- 27 Mar 2018
- Closing date
- 24 Apr 2018
- Ref
- Industry
- Media, Digital media, Retail & FMCG, Shopfloor & sales assistants, Technology, IT support, Telecoms
- Job function
- Sales
- Job level
- Management
- Hours
- Full time
- Contract
- Permanent
- Listing type
- Job vacancy
O2 & Telefonica
O2 is the commercial brand of Telefonica UK Limited, a leading digital communications company owned by Telefonica S.A. With over 25 million customers across the UK, O2 is one of the world's most innovative companies putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.
We are much more than just a network. We open up the endless possibilities of technology, connecting our customers to the things that they love and exploring new ways to open up the world for them.
With over 450 stores across the UK, our retail team is at the forefront of offering our customers more. And you can be part of it.
We are always on the lookout for great talent. Just like our customers, we offer our employees more. From a choice of benefits, rewards, training and ongoing career development there are many reasons to join O2.
Your role
Your job is to deliver amazing results through leading and developing a high performing team. You will deliver results through a motivated and engaged team by inspiring them to love the job they do and make sure they are having great conversations with our customers to understand their needs so they sell the right product and service to them. Making every day better for our customers through personal experiences that count.
You will look for ways to make sales soar, drive efficiencies and be a motivational leader and role model to the team.
The main responsibilities of the role are:
- Leading your team brilliantly with passion and drive
- Ensuring your store consistently delivers an exceptional customer service/experience. Building trust and making every single day better through personal experiences that count
- Achieving performance targets and other measures as set by the business
- Delivering regular, consistent and effective reviews with the team
- Supporting the Store to drive productivity and efficiency in line with budgets and guidelines, to minimise store operating costs and impact on the environment.
- Building a schedule using identified business data inputs (i.e footfall, matrix hours, trading hours, employee contracted hours) to maximise productivity and deliver store rotas in an effective and timely manner
- Ensuring store is adhering to key compliance requirements in relation to store standards, Health & Safety, cash management, security and stock management, FCA compliance, refunds and discounts
- Identifying talent within the team and driving development
- Working with your team to take ownership of the store appearance – taking pride in where you work
Find out more about Benefits, Skills and Experience Needed for this role on O2 Careers Website
Additional information
Hours: 37.5hrs
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In Rafael Medoff's recent op-ed ("The president and the Jews," April 24), he makes two basic contentions. One is that President Barack Obama regards Israel as a "nuisance." The second is that the purveyor of that opinion, Gary Rosenblatt, editor of the Jewish Weekly, may turn out to be like Walter Cronkite in his influence on voters.
Regarding the first assertion as to Mr. Obama viewing Israel as a "nuisance," here is what President Obama has done regarding it: He killed Osama bin Laden. He helped get rid of Libya'sMoammar Gadhafi. He has funded Israel with more money than any other president in history. And in September of 2011, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly said, "Through your actions, Mr. President, you deserve a badge of honor, and more world leaders should follow your example, Mr President." If he is good enough for Bibi, he is good enough for me.
The second assertion, that Gary Rosenblatt is akin to Walter Cronkite, I will recast Lloyd Bentsen's famous remark about Dan Quayle comparing himself toJohn F. Kennedy. I knew Gary Rosenblatt. He is a fine fellow and good at his craft, but frankly, Mr. Medoff, Gary Rosenblatt is no Walter Cronkite.
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Sabie, South Africa from Jordan Bierma on Vimeo.
June 27th 2012:
We got up at 5 a.m. less excited then the previous morning but still managed to get things together and make it to the gate as it opened at 6 a.m. We seemed to be off to another flying start as we came upon a group of large male elephants having an early morning snack in the trees on the side of the road. After the initial sighting things dried up as we had a couple hours of nothing but a few impala, and birds here and there. Around 10 a.m. things finally picked up a little as we found a hippo and a small croc with their noses just above the water. From there we headed back towards lunch/toilets, and when you have to go to the bathroom you seem to run into everything. First a herd of elephants about 15-20 strong, with a slightly aggressive male who made us keep our distance, since there were a number of young ones weaving there way in and out between the adults legs. As we continued back a strange sight we hadn't encountered yet appeared. An initial group of 15-20 vultures, and other birds of prey were perched in two trees side by side. The longer we waited the more the group swelled. Up until about 50-60 birds, with 3 different species of vultures, and a handful of other birds of prey in the trees and circling above. It was a sight to be seen that was difficult to capture in the car.
After lunch, full, and still a bit tired from the day before, and with no intentions of being even remotely close to being late we perched ourselves at a watering hole and waited for the show to come to us. It came in the form of a hippo, an elephant, a fish eagle, wooly storks, and a giraffe, which had two tiny hooves of a baby giraffe poking out the back end of her. We watched and waited intently hoping we would witness a giraffe giving birth. She stuck around and we watched for about 2 hours of which no progress was made. The giraffe a relatively young female, didn't seem to be giving any heed to the body parts hanging out of her. She kept on grazing and we eventually lost sight of her as she disappeared into the trees.


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Exploring the Solar System: Further Guides and Resources
By Andrew Fraknoi
© Copyright 2001, Project ASTRO, Astronomical Society of the Pacific
In the last few decades, the planets and moons in the solar system have been revealed as wonderfully individual worlds that we are beginning to explore in detail. Here are some resources to help your family get to know these worlds better.
Books for Kids (age 8 and up)
Dickinson, Terence Other Worlds: A Beginner's Guide to the Planets and Moons. 1995, Firefly Books.
Lauber, Patricia Journey to the Planets, 4th edition. 1993, Crown.
Simon, Seymour The Solar System: Facts and Exploration. 1995, Henry Holt.
Books for Adults
McNab, David and Younger, James The Planets. 1999, Yale University Press. This beautiful coffee-table book accompanies a PBS TV series of the same name. Written by a journalist and TV producer and accompanied by many color images, the text gives an overview of our modern understanding of the solar system.
Miller, Ron and Hartmann, William The Grand Tour: A Traveler's Guide to the Solar System, 2nd ed. 1993, Workman. This paperback volume by two artists (one of whom is an astronomer) shows the planets in photographs and paintings. A good primer for beginners.
Morrison, David Exploring Planetary Worlds. 1993, Scientific American Library/W. H. Freeman. A clear, non-technical survey by one of the foremost astronomers who specializes in the planets.
A Few Useful Websites
The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
Amateur astronomer and web wizard Bill Arnett keeps this likeable site of information, images, and links.
Views of the Solar System
Engineer and professional image processor Calvin Hamilton has assembled a site similar to Nine Planets, but with even more graphics and images.
Planetary Photojournal
This terrific site collects and organizes several thousand of the best images from recent NASA spacecraft. They are all in the public domain (paid for by your tax dollars) and can be downloaded in several different picture formats.
For more readings and web sites (including the best resources on individual planets and moons), see our Solar System Resource Guide on the web at: http://www.astrosociety.org/edu/resources/solarsysprint.html


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Wests Tigers v Sea Eagles preview
3 hours ago | Tim Costello
Match Summary The Wests Tigers have claimed a comfortable 24-16 win over a very disappointing Dragons outfit at the Sydney Football Stadium this afternoon. The Tigers led 18-4 at half time and were always in control of the match. The Tigers may pay dearly for the victory, with Benji Marshall taken from the field early on with a knee ligament/potential ACL injury.
The Tigers opened the scoring in the eighth minute with Liam Fulton diving on a loose ball in the in-goal.
The Dragons struck back six minutes later, with Mark Gasnier scoring a powerful try and bring the score to 6-4 in favour of the Tigers. This would be as close as the Dragons would get. Josh Morris knocked on from the restart and Chris Lawrence scored a few minutes later to put the Tigers up 12-4.
After an extended period of pressure, the Tigers extended their lead with a superb run from dummy half from Robbie Farah. The score of 18-4 would remain the same at half time, despite some good attacking possession for the Dragons.
The Tigers pushed their lead out to 20 points with half an hour remaining in the game with Tim Moltzen diving on a deflected kick to score.
The Dragons showed signs of a comeback, with tries to Jamie Soward and Kirk Reynoldson scoring, however the Dragons just lacked the impact and ability to keep the pressure on the Tigers and the Tigers finished comfortably, winning 24-16.
At this stage it is unknown how serious the injury to Benji Marshall is, but the worst case scenario is that he will be out for the season. The Dragons have much to be concerned about, with such a limp performance in the first week bound to put more pressure on coach Nathan Brown.
Match Details Round 1 - Full Time :: March 16th, 2008 3:00pm Venue: Sydney Football Stadium Referee: Sean Hampstead
Wests Tigers (24) Tries: Liam Fulton, Chris Lawrence, Robbie Farah, Tim Moltzen Field Goals: Robbie Farah (0/1) Goals: Brett Hodgson (4/4)
St George Illawarra Dragons (16) Tries: Mark Gasnier, Jamie Soward, Kirk Reynoldson Goals: Mark Gasnier (0/1), Jamie Soward (2/2)
LeagueUnlimited.com Player of the Match 3 Points: Robbie Farah (Tigers) 2 Points: Brett Hodgson (Tigers) 1 Point: Liam Fulton (Tigers)
Live Commentary Good afternoon from a sunny Sydney Football Stadium. Earlier today the Tigers won the Under-20 Toyota Cup match 34-22.
1 min: Underway at the SFS!
6 min: Both teams looking dangerous on attack. Benji Marshall taken from the field with a knee injury.
8 min: VIDEO REF - For a Tigers try...
8 min: TRY Wests Tigers The Tigers put in a grubber kick, Brett Morris is unable to clean it up and Liam Fulton dives on the ball to score. Conversion attempt by Brett Hodgson successful. Wests Tigers 6-0
13 min: VIDEO REF - For a Tigers try...
13 min: NO TRY - Tigers player ruled to have knocked on contesting a bomb - rather obvious call really.
13 min: INJURY UPDATE - Benji Marshall with a knee ligament injury, certainly not returning today.
14 min: TRY St George Illawarra Dragons Gasnier gets the ball 12 out and crashes through defenders to score. Conversion attempt by Mark Gasnier unsuccessful. Wests Tigers 6-4
16 min: Terrible result for the Dragons, Josh Morris knocks on attempting to catch the kickoff.
17 min: TRY Wests Tigers The Tigers make the Dragons pay for the mistake - the Tigers spread the ball out to the left and final an overlap that allowed Chris Lawrence to score in the corner. Conversion attempt by Brett Hodgson successful. Wests Tigers 12-4
20 min: Let's have a drinks break.
21 min: The Dragons spill the ball working out of their own end.
22 min: Tigers earn a line drop out.
23 min: Tigers earn another line drop out - the pressure is building.
24 min: TRY Wests Tigers As easy as you like! Robbie Farah picks the ball up from dummy half, throws a dummy and runs 20 metres nearly unopposed to score next to the posts. Conversion attempt by Brett Hodgson successful. Wests Tigers 18-4
28 min: Gasnier is hit by Beau Ryan, loses the ball and the Tigers go on the counter-attack.
31 min: The Dragons get a penalty for a high tackle on Jamie Soward, and they finally get consecutive attacking sets.
32 min: Great defence from the Tigers and the Dragons kick goes too deep in the in-goal...but we have a touch judge on the field...
32 min: The touch judge tells us there will be a penalty against the Tigers for a Liam Fulton late hit on Soward.
33 min: VIDEO REF - For a Dragons try...
33 min: NO TRY - Chase Stanley held up in great defence from the Tigers.
33 min: Soward puts in a kick and Nightingale is penalised for tackling Peni Tagive in the air whilst attempting to catch the ball.
37 min: The Dragons manage to push Tagive over the sideline with the Tigers on attack.
39 min: Soward comes awfully close to claiming a 40/20.
40 min: Tigers get a penalty with 20 seconds remaining in the half.
40 min: ATTEMPTED FIELD GOAL Wests Tigers Farah attempts a field goal right on the half time siren. Wests Tigers 18-4
40 min: Back underway at the SFS
42 min: Reynoldson loses the ball and the Tigers go on attack from 40 out
43 min: Soward almost intercepts a Hodgson pass, however he can't hold on and the Tigers get a repeat attacking set.
44 min: Soward fails to find touch from a penalty.
46 min: Farah gets wrapped up running the ball on the last tackle.
48 min: Soward again nearly intercepts Farah this time, but again can't hold onto the ball. Tigers scrum 15 out.
50 min: The Dragons play at a grubber and the Tigers get another attacking set.
50 min: VIDEO REF - For a Tigers try...
50 min: TRY Wests Tigers Farah puts in a grubber, it bounces of Moltzen's legs and he dives on the ball to claim a try next to the uprights. Tigers running away with this one. Conversion attempt by Brett Hodgson successful. Wests Tigers 24-4
53 min: Tigers lose the ball coming out of their own end.
54 min: Rangi Chase throws a forward pass from dummy half on only the second tackle 10 out.
55 min: Tigers kick out on the full on halfway.
56 min: TRY St George Illawarra Dragons The Dragons spread the ball wide, and then draw back on the inside to Soward who has no trouble scoring under the posts. Conversion attempt by Jamie Soward successful. Wests Tigers 24-10
58 min: Dragons get a penalty first hit up after the kickoff for a high tackle.
59 min: Dragons get a line drop out.
60 min: A poor cut-out pass is thrown to Gasnier on the last tackle letting the Tigers off the hook. And we'll enjoy a drinks break.
65 min: Tigers have a good attacking set that is finished with a poor kick on the last tackle. The Dragons looking very tired however.
66 min: A nice Dragons attacking set is ruined on the last tackle by a forward pass from dummy half.
68 min: Soward attempts the chip over the top that goes too deep, however the Tigers are penalised for taking Soward out chasing his kick.
69 min: TRY St George Illawarra Dragons The Dragons spread the ball to Reynoldson who runs through a gap and runs 10 metres to score in the tackle of Hodgson. Conversion attempt by Jamie Soward successful. Wests Tigers 24-16
71 min: At a crucial time, the Dragons lose the ball coming out of their own end.
72 min: VIDEO REF - For a Tigers try...
72 min: NO TRY - The Tigers put in a kick that is fumbled by the Dragons, however Rangi Chase gets his hand to the ball before any Tigers players, and the Tigers get a drop out.
74 min: Moltzen knocks on receiving the drop out.
74 min: Ryles puts in a grubber that runs dead on the 4th tackle.
76 min: All chances are gone, the Dragons lose the ball coming out of their own end. The Tigers return the favour, but it's all academic now.
78 min: Gasnier tackled into touch just a few metres short of the line.
80 min: Matt Cooper throws a no-look pass over the sideline, last Dragons scoring opportunity is gone.
FULLTIME: The Tigers ease home over a disappointing Dragons outfit, winning 24-16.


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Justice Department brings new charges in Blackwater shootings
WASHINGTON The Justice Department Thursday brought fresh charges against four former Blackwater Worldwide security contractors, resurrecting an internationally charged case over a deadly 2007 shooting on the streets of Baghdad.
A new grand jury charges the men in a shooting that inflamed anti-American sentiment in Iraq and heightened diplomatic sensitivities amid an ongoing war. The men were hired to guard U.S. diplomats.
The guards are accused of opening fire in busy Nisoor Square on Sept. 16, 2007. Seventeen Iraqi civilians died, including women and children. Prosecutors say the heavily armed Blackwater convoy used machine guns and grenades in an unprovoked attack. Defense lawyers argue their clients are innocent men who were ambushed by Iraqi insurgents.
At the time, CBS News found the Iraqi witness accounts of the shootings were consistent. They said a four-vehicle Blackwater convoy drove into a traffic circle but was blocked by barriers protecting a maintenance crew, reported CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer. The Blackwater guards threw water bottles, warning the cars to stop, but as one car continued to inch forward, Blackwater started shooting, instantly killing the driver.
The indictment revives a case that has lingered for years in Washington's federal court.
The guards were charged with manslaughter and weapons violations in 2008, but a federal judge the following year dismissed the case, ruling the Justice Department withheld evidence from a grand jury and violated the guards' constitutional rights. The dismissal outraged many Iraqis, who said it showed Americans consider themselves above the law. Vice President Joe Biden, speaking in Baghdad in 2010, expressed his "personal regret" for the shootings.
A federal appeals court reinstated the case in 2011, saying now-retired Judge Ricardo Urbina had wrongly interpreted the law.
Prosecutors again presented evidence before a grand jury, and U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth gave the Justice Department until Monday to decide what to do with the case.
The defendants include Dustin Heard, a retired U.S. Marine from Knoxville, Tenn.; Evan Liberty, a retired U.S. Marine from Rochester, N.H.; Nick Slatten, a former U.S. Army sergeant from Sparta, Tenn., and Paul Slough, a U.S. Army veteran from Keller, Texas.
Slatten is charged with 14 counts of voluntary manslaughter and 16 counts of attempt to commit manslaughter; Liberty and Heard are charged with 13 counts of voluntary manslaughter and 16 counts of attempt to commit manslaughter; and Slough is charged with 13 counts of voluntary manslaughter and 18 counts of attempt to commit manslaughter. All four were also charged with one count of using and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
They were charged under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act, a statute that allows the government to prosecute certain government employees and contractors for crimes committed overseas. Defense lawyers have argued that statute does not apply in this case since the guards were working as State Department contractors, not for the military.
Prosecutors last month agreed to dismiss their case against a fifth guard, Donald Ball, a retired Marine from West Valley City, Utah. A sixth guard, Jeremy Ridgeway of California, pleaded guilty and is awaiting sentencing.
The Justice Department had earlier dropped Slatten from the case, but after the appeals court decision reinstated the prosecution, the government said he remained a defendant.
The company formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide is under new ownership and is now headquartered in Virginia. It had changed its name to Xe Services, but the company was sold to a group of investors who then changed the name to Academi.
Blackwater founder Erik Prince is no longer affiliated with the company.
In moving forward with the case, the government will seek to overcome some of the legal problems that have dogged the prosecution. The case ran into trouble because the State Department promised the guards that their statements explaining what happened would not be used for criminal prosecution. The five guards told investigators that they fired their weapons, a crucial admission. Because of a limited immunity deal, prosecutors had to build their case without those statements, a high legal hurdle. In dismissing the case, Urbina said prosecutors had read the statements, reviewed them in the investigation and used them to question witnesses and get search warrants.
Court documents also reveal conflicting evidence, with some witnesses saying the Blackwater convoy was under fire and others saying it was not.


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Go ahead. Ask me what would make me happiest if I had a totally free day. I'd tell you that during such a dream day I'd be by myself, probably with a book. Right at the front of …Read More
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Noël Piper and her husband, John, have ministered since 1980 at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They have five sons and a daughter. Noël grew up in Georgia and is a graduate of Wheaton College.


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This drink violates at least two of my general rules for making good cocktails: 1) It's blue and 2) It's made with MD "Mad Dog" 20/20, the convenience store favorite for brown bagging it in the park. The blame for this abomination goes to Thrillist Portland, which is profiling a few of the city's best restaurants with outdoor patios and asked each one to create a special off-menu item exclusively for Thrillist readers. The challenge they issued to me at Metrovino was to make a drink using Mad Dog as an ingredient. So if any of my recent house guests were worried about the bottle of MD 20/20 in my refrigerator, rest assured that it had a legitimate purpose. (The bottle of Ardbeg in the shower, however, is definitely cause for concern.)
There are multiple flavors of Mad Dog to choose from, but I couldn't resist the allure of the "bling bling" on the label of Blue Raspberry. This liquid is a totally unnatural shade of blue and its flavor is sickly sweet. It's not going to replace the Carpano Antica in my Manhattans anytime soon. But mix it with a strongly flavored spirit like aquavit, add some acidity with lime juice, soften everything up with some pillowy egg white, and you've got yourself a drink that's pretty damn tasty and priced for the recession. You've got yourself a Dalbo Dog:
2 oz Krogstad aquavit
3/4 oz Blue Raspberry MD "Mad Dog" 20/20
3/4 oz lime juice
1/4 oz agave nectar
1 egg white
3 drops Novo Fogo Cherribiscus bitters for garnish
Dry shake all but the bitters, shake again with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and finish by etching the bitters on the foam into adorable little heart shapes.
The Dalbo Dog is just for Thrillist readers, but now you're in the know too. Stop into Metrovino this month and this summery blue little number will only set you back eight bucks. Also be sure to check out Thrillist for some of the other off-menu items in Portland, including a ramped up burger at Yakuza that sounds amazing.
(The Dalbo Dog is an extinct Swedish breed used for herding sheep. Here's a photo; awww.)
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Consumers didn't spend a whole lot in the first quarter, it turns out, but they appear to be shopping a bit more lately.
Economists polled by MarketWatch project that consumer spending increased by 0.4% in May, propelled by the biggest uptick in auto sales in more than seven years. Auto sales jumped 4.5% in May to an annual rate of 16.7 million units.
While that would not be a huge increase, Americans seem to be a bit more willing to spending than they were a few years ago. Over the past 12 months consumer spending has risen by 4.3%, the fastest pace since early 2012, as more and more Americans find work. The economy has added an average of 214,000 jobs a month through the first five months of 2014, one of the best stretches of hiring since the end of the recession.
Still, spending is only about two-thirds as high as it normally is during an economic expansion. Economists says spending cannot continue to rise unless wages do.
In May, personal income is also expected to climb 0.4%. That's in keeping with average monthly gains since the start of 2014, though probably not enough to light a bonfire under the U.S. economy.
New applications for unemployment benefits, meanwhile, are likely to slip to 310,000 in the week ended June 21 from 312,000 in the prior week, economists forecast. Initial claims have been bouncing off postrecession lows for several months, and with the rate of layoffs near an all-time low, that's not expected to change.
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Judge dismisses parts of PCMR's lawsuit against Talisker
Third District Court Judge Ryan Harris, calling the lease dispute between Park City Mountain Resort and a firm under the Talisker Corporation umbrella "unfortunate," on Tuesday dismissed key parts of PCMR's lawsuit against its landlord.
Talisker Land Holdings, LLC and United Park City Mines won dismissals of six points of PCMR's case, including one focused on PCMR's assertion that Talisker Land Holdings, LLC had a duty to remind the resort of the requirements of a lease renewal as the expiration date approached. The 47-page ruling also dismissed PCMR's antitrust claims against Talisker Land Holdings, LLC.
" . . . The Park City Parties had an obligation to strictly comply with the Leases' renewal provisions, and they failed to do so," Harris wrote.
Harris, meanwhile, allowed the PCMR side to press forward with two points — one encompassing a contention that Talisker Land Holdings, LLC waived its right to claim or is stopped from claiming the leases expired and the other for damages if it is found that Talisker Land Holdings, LLC failed to disclose early on that it saw the leases as having expired.
The lawsuit focuses on PCMR's two leases of Talisker Land Holdings, LLC ground, approximately 3,700 acres, to operate the resort. The Talisker Land Holdings, LLC side claims PCMR did not provide written notice of its intent to extend the leases on time and they expired in April, 2011. PCMR says it communicated an interest in extending the lease, but it has acknowledged that a confirmation letter was not sent until after the deadline.
The judge's ruling includes a strong statement on the point, saying that the leases are written in "plain language."
"The Park City Parties maintain that this language allows them to make a non-written 'election,' as long as they provide to the Talisker Parties, at some later point, written confirmation of this election. This is simply not a tenable interpretation of the plain language. Indeed, this interpretation borders on the nonsensical, and contains no conceivable logical limit," he wrote.
The lawsuit has been closely watched in the Park City area and its outcome could have wide-ranging impacts on the local ski industry. The PCMR side has claimed the Talisker Corporation side wants to eliminate it as a competitor to Talisker-owned Canyons.
"The current situation is unfortunate. The Court is aware of, and mindful of, the importance of PCMR and The Canyons to Summit County's economic, cultural, and recreational well-being," Harris wrote in his ruling. "The Court is, like many citizens of Summit County and of the State of Utah, hopeful that these parties can resolve their differences and keep both resorts operating in an economically beneficial manner . . ."
Attorneys for Talisker Land Holdings, LLC and PCMR, speaking in interviews after the ruing was released, said their sides are willing to engage in settlement negotiations. They did not provide details. If a settlement is not reached, the sides intend to enter the discovery phase of the lawsuit, when the attorneys conduct depositions and obtain documents from the other side.
Daniel Beller, the lead attorney for Talisker Land Holdings, LLC, said in an interview his side is confident in the facts of the case. Alan Sullivan, the attorney who represents PCMR, said if his side prevails on the remaining points Talisker Land Holdings, LLC could be prevented from claiming the leases have expired.
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Rugby and the crossover athlete
The crossover athlete is not specific to rugby - or rugby sevens, for that matter.
Michael Jordan tried his hand at professional baseball during his first retirement stint from the National Basketball Association, though he never made it to the Majors.
Heisman Trophy-winner and two-time National Football League Pro Bowler Herschel Walker is in possession of a 2-0 mixed martial arts record with two technical knockouts.
Recently-retired ice hockey player Chris Drury won the 1989 Little League World Series before winning silver medals at the Salt Lake City 2002 and Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games and a National Hockey League Stanley Cup Championship with the Colorado Avalanche.
In rugby, Carlin Isles is perhaps the biggest crossover athlete name. Of course, now it comes with the title of "Fastest Man in World Rugby." Isles' track pursuits ended after missing out on the London 2012 Games and the Men's Eagles Sevens have been the better for it: Isles has scored a total of 28 tries in just 14 events on the IRB HSBC Sevens World Series circuit.
Isles followed in the footsteps of Miles Craigwell, who is now in consideration for both Men's Eagles Sevens and Men's Eagles tours after playing American football at Brown University and for a time with the NFL's Miami Dolphins.
Most recently, Green Bay Packers all-time leading rusher Ahman Green stated his interest in pursuing rugby and traveled to the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif., for a camp with the Eagles.
"My initial goal was to be on the team," Green said. "I had talked to [former Men's Eagles Sevens Head Coach] Al Caravelli in 2009 and we corresponded through cell phone and email. Then we lost contact. After I lost contact with Caravelli I didn't have any other coaches I could contact so I just kept working out.
@USARugby Yo Coach! This is Ahman! Can we talk soon?
— Ahman Green (@AhmanGreen30) October 1, 2013
"It came later than sooner. A few years passed, [USA Rugby President of Rugby Operations] Nigel [Melville] contacted me and finally got the ball rolling."
"When you actually get out there and have a go it's totally different," Melville said of Green's try-out. "You have to be incredibly fit, you have to run for a long period of time, you have to have great skills. [Ahman's] probably always played attack, but in rugby you're playing defense, as well."
Green's journey to the rugby pitch did not end with the two-day camp at the OTC. In January, he served as the Eagles' team liaison during USA Sevens in Las Vegas, where he was able to witness some of the best sevens teams in the world play the newest Olympic sport.
"I had only seen practice but now, seeing the live game action all day, was a lot," he said. "It actually filled in a lot of gaps for me from a fan standpoint; understanding the game, the tackling, the tries, the concept and the methods to playing good defense and having a good offense."
Green was not the only non-rugby player looking for a chance to get to the Olympics. Some of the newest athletes in Residency at the OTC are crossover athletes.
Jessica Javelet, who played field hockey at the University of Louisville before joining Ric Suggitt's Women's Eagles Sevens, scored seven tries in six matches at Atlanta 7s. Suggitt also brought ice hockey player Alev Kelter and Olympic bobsledder Elana Meyers to the OTC following their trip to Sao Paulo.
"The Olympics is always a draw," Melville said. "You hear about sprinters who decide to push a bobsled. Some sports lead to it. In the U.K., they get people off the street just because they're tall and aerobic and they go rowing. It's a very easy crossover sport. Rugby is a more complex crossover sport. It's not quite as easy as people think."
Though he was not given the opportunity to represent the Eagles on the circuit, Green is staying in rugby to help attract some new athletes.
"When I saw the announcement that rugby was going to be in the Olympics, I said, 'That's the closest thing that we as American football players will have to play football [in the Olympics],'" Green said. "I know how we look at football as Americans. We're great at it. We would dominate if they would ever allow football in the Olympics.
"[Rugby] is the next best thing, and the next common sense thing to being allowed. If we have the players, we have the coaches. We kind of have time on our side to get myself and maybe some other athletes that are in my position ready."
Former San Diego Chargers and Buffalo Bills linebacker Shawne Merriman, who retired from the NFL in 2013, said he would "love to participate in the Olympics" playing rugby.
I would love to participate in the Olympics with the Rugby team
— Shawne Merriman (@shawnemerriman) February 19, 2014
Current Cincinnati Bengal Andrew Hawkins also jumped on the rugby sevens bandwagon during the Twitter public's discussion of Merriman's tweet.
can I? RT @USASevensRugby: Come on over to #Rugby Shawne! RT @shawnemerriman: I would love to participate in the Olympics w/ the Rugby team
— Andrew Hawkins (@Hawk) February 20, 2014
American football players are some of the most in-shape athletes on the planet. Isles was quoted as saying rugby 15s players were "way, way bigger than the guys who play on sevens. I've seen some of those guys on TV and some of them are straight animals - some of them are as big as in the NFL . . ."
At 37 years old (36 at the time of his tryout at the Olympic Training Center), Green is still a model of the NFL regimen.
Just MAXED OUT on HBBS #435!! #D1GreenBay #outlawway #ThisIsWhatIDo pic.twitter.com/wNdIRw8O0r
— Ahman Green (@AhmanGreen30) July 12, 2013
Merriman, 29, is also staying in shape despite having retired from the gridiron game, and could prove to be an asset for the Men's Eagles Sevens. Though the switch from American football to rugby is not the easiest - nor is it the toughest - Melville thinks an athlete of Merriman's caliber could add to any rugby team.
"It's a new challenge for them and they're great athletes," Melville said of potential NFL crossovers. "There's no doubt about their athleticism, just that they've been built in different ways. They haven't been built like rugby players - they've been built for football."
In 2013, Melville attempted to entice Tim Tebow to make the switch to rugby.
One door closes, an Olympic Rugby door opens for @TimTebow - we should talk about our global game! @USARugby
— Nigel Melville (@NigelMelville) August 31, 2013
Following his release from the New England Patriots, Tebow found himself without a job. His representatives declined the offer from USA Rugby, though thousands of fans on social media tried to persuade the former Florida Gator to pick up a rugby ball.
Should he decide to take up rugby, Green thinks a future in the NFL would not be out of the question for the young quarterback.
"We want interest at least," Green said. "Is he interested in keeping his athleticism up for the NFL or is he looking to get a gold medal? If you're on a national rugby team and you end up with the gold, silver or bronze, trust me: an NFL team's going to show some interest. Any NFL coach or scout that knows rugby or understands rugby like I know it, they'll respect that."
Others criticized USA Rugby for targeting an NFL player when thousands of young men playing the game at the collegiate and club level have put in the time to warrant a look at the national team.
While the United States has plenty of talented rugby players of age, those younger players who go on to the NFL, NBA and NHL should also be included in the talent pool.
Green saw firsthand the abilities on display by the Boys High School All-Americans, sponsored by Aircraft Charter Solutions, at the Las Vegas Invitational during USA Sevens. Head Coach Salty Thompson fielded two HSAA teams. The first team won the competition, while the second team took home the Plate.
The HSAAs have had similar success in recent travels around the world, including a competitive series against the Argentina national team and the best American result at Rosslyn Park Sevens last March.
"The High School sevens team was very good," Green said. "So taking the kids coming up on that scene and guys who are in my age span just ready to go and help out in any way we can, we have a legit chance."
Age grade coaches are worried their best prospects will be snagged by the allure of a professional contract in another sport. Thretton Palamo, who was the youngest player ever to represent his country at the IRB Rugby World Cup, stopped playing rugby to focus on American football at the University of Utah. Earlier this year, however, Palamo finished his football career for the Utes and was offered a Residency contract at the OTC.
Nate Ebner was a member of the AIG Men's Junior All-Americans at the IRB Junior World Championship in 2008, but quit club rugby at Ohio State to join the Buckeyes' football team. The New England Patriots drafted him in 2012.
Haloti Ngata was a standout rugby player in Utah prior to his signing a contract with the Baltimore Ravens, and who can forget Hayden Smith leaving Aviva Premiership's Saracens for the New York Jets?
"[Ebner] crossed the other way," Melville said. "So football doesn't need our players? They've been trying to get Carlin to go."
"You be honest," Green said of persuading young ruggers to stay with the 80-minute game. "Don't hide anything about it. That's how I learned when I was recruited in high school for football. The recruiter that came to town that was honest with me about what I was getting into? I decided to go to that school. Just shoot straight. That's how you convince a player, because then they're making up their own mind.
"They'll realize what they've already experienced through rugby - the travelling they get to have, first-hand, real life situations. You travel the world. You're in places most people don't get a lifetime to go to. But at 16, 17, 18, you're there meeting people, talking to people, learning how to socialize with people from another country. That in itself is a great experience. It gives the kids an opportunity to grow as a person and a human being."
American football and rugby are closer than some realize, and Green believes both sports could benefit from collaboration.
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The Men's Eagles Sevens are currently in 14th in the 2013-14 IRB HSBC Sevens World Series standings after five of the nine tournament stops. They finished the 2012-13 Series in 11th to remain a core team, but their performances will have to improve if they hope to qualify for the Rio 2016 Games.
The IRB announced the qualification process for the Olympics, and a top-four finish on the Series next year will clinch it. A regional qualification tournament would be the next chance to qualify, then finally the repechage.
Former Eagles Sevens included current Eagles 15s players Todd Clever, Takudzwa Ngwenya and Chris Wyles, as well as former players Paul Emerick and Kevin Swiryn. Some of the current crop of Eagles will surely be looking for an opportunity to medal at the Olympic Games, but should NFL players not also have the same chance?
The United States possesses some of the world's greatest athletes. Should a few more start passing the ball backwards, America could very well turn into the next "rugby superpower."